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I spent most of last week visiting a Cisco WiMAX customer in the Caribbean island of Curacao. Scarlet BV offers a wireless broadband service in the Nederland Antilles islands, some of the most southerly islands in the Caribbean Sea.

Curacao is the biggest of the 4 islands that make up the Nederland Antilles, still owned and governed by Holland, although with a large degree of autonomy. The population of about 130,000 is made up of 50,000 Dutch, with the rest coming from all over. The island is… Continue

Well, Amsterdam is for all kinds for things. One of them is WIMAX, where the WiMAX Forum, through it's partner, Informa, holds it's annual Global Congress.

It was downsized somewhat from last year, I would say about 30%. The booths were empty, because unlike other shows, Informa held seminar tracks concurrently with the exhibit hours, and most attendees decided to attend the sessions. I did have some very good conversations, and my company did actually close a multi-country deal at the show (ca… Continue

I won't replicate the whole darn press release here, but you can see the whole text at the link below:

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/prod_051309b.html

KIRKLAND, Wash., and SAN JOSE, Calif., May 13, 2009 – Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced today an alliance designed to enhance and expand CLEARTM 4G mobile WiMAX services throughout the United States. Under terms of the agreement, Clearwire has selected Cisco as its national Internet Protocol Next-Ge… Continue

So it doesn't cause cancer (at least according to most reputable scientists), but cellular systems are suspected of being the root cause behind another strange phenomenon, the disappearance of the honey bee.

University of Iowa Agricultural College in Des Moines has been studying honey bees ability to distinguish the routes used to find a food source, in this case, a tree in bloom, or a field of flowing crops. Bees normally remember their route, and can communicate it to other bees through a ser… Continue

http://blog.medting.com/2009/02/20/medting-at-mwc-2009-with-intel-and-cisco/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh1oe-NJ3Vs

http://blogs.cisco.com/sp/comments/mobile_world_congress_2009_4g_today_-_wimax_demo/