Broadband Surf Report: Feb. 2

We take a daily look at telecom news around the Web. If we see our shadow, it means six more weeks of major consolidations.

Once viewed as an unsound luxury, Wi-Fi gaining steam in workplaces--Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo

Hard-core porn, brought to you by Adelphia--Los Angeles Times

Consumers are cool to VoIP: survey--Networking Pipeline

The loss of AT&T as an icon--Denver Post

Survey finds strong in-flight access interest--Mobile Pipeline

And an international roundup:

Australia gets 8Mbps broadband--Whirlpool.net

Entire Indian Ocean island going wireless--Mobile Pipeline

NTT DoCoMo begins mass-market transition to 3G… Read more

Broadband Surf Report: Feb. 1

Our daily look at telecom news around the Web:

Time Warner and Comcast bid for Adelphia--Financial Times

SBC + AT&T = confused international picture--Infoworld

Virgin Mobile falls on higher churn--Reuters

WiMax galore: Unstrung relays the announcement that Cisco Weighs WiMax and Telephony Online notes that Sprint joins WiMax Forum

Nokia enters into cooperation with Sierra Wireless--TechNewsWorld

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Broadband Surf Report: Jan. 31

Our daily look at telecom news around the Web:

MCI brings world's largest next-generation Internet test bed online--Networking Pipeline

Yahoo Local goes mobile--TechNewsWorld

AOL realizes Time Warner exists, and vice-versa...--Broadband Reports

Broadcom boosts roaming with new chip--eWeek

Wi-Fi alliance to promote WLAN security--eWeek

BellSouth attacks 'Bellster' VoIP product--Broadband Reports

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Broadband Surf Report: Jan. 28

Our almost-daily look at telecom news around the Web:

As SBC, AT&T advance talks, rivals stand by--Wall Street Journal, which is a subscription site, but Light Reading discusses "SBC/AT&T: Possible winners & losers" for free.

California suspends 'wireless bill of rights,' explains Mobile Pipeline, while the San Francisco Chronicle looks at the backstage battle over cell phone rules: Consumer protection policies at issue

Cell phone shipments rise 24 percent--TechNewsWorld

Yahoo links local search with mobile phones--Infoworld

Siemens to cut 1,350 jobs in telecoms ops--AFP via Yahoo News

Nanotech extends battery life… Read more

Broadband Surf Report: Jan. 26

Our daily look at telecom news around the Web:

SBC reports lower profit, plans 7,000 job cuts--Networking Pipeline

Mobile viruses just getting started--Information Week

SBC and Skycable/AOL bid for ireless Wisconsin--Muni Wireless

Wi-Fi To Hurt 3G Profits, Study Says--Mobile Pipeline

Sirius's loss widens--Wall Street Journal (subscription site)

Broadband popular with online seniors--Pew Internet & American Life Project

BellSouth and Lafayette, La., continue feud--Broadband Reports

Report: Competing wireless techs will achieve harmony--Mobile Pipeline

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Bead promises to cut cell phone radiation

Just in case you're concerned about the cell phone industry's assurance that radiation is no threat to your brain cells, a professor in Great Britain isn't waiting around for absolute proof.

Professor Lawrie Challis, chairman of the UK's mobile telecommunications and health research program, has found that attaching an iron bead to a cell phone's hands-free wire blocks radio waves from traveling up to the user's head, according to a BBC report. These are the same kinds of beads commonly used to stop interference in computers.

"They work by blocking the current, a … Read more