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Chip giant Intel, a major backer of the movement to provide mobile WiMax wireless broadband to Internet users around the world, expects the next major release of the technology to be deployed starting in 2012, an executive said Tuesday. “Standards work will be completed by the end of this year,” said Rama Shukla, a vice president and director of the WiMax program office at Intel, during a news conference in Taipei.

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Intel sees 2012 deployment for mobile WiMax Release 2

A new version of Enterasys’ Wi-Fi software simplifies network management and operations, and improves client performance in 802.11n enterprise wireless LANs .

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Enterasys enhances Wi-Fi management, 802.11n performance

Southwest Airlines has ordered equipment for an in-flight Wi-Fi service and will start deploying it on planes in the second quarter of this year.

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Southwest is latest airline to deploy in-flight Wi-Fi

Everybody keeps a list of the people who make their jobs and lives more difficult, even if they never write it down. It’s a safe bet that IT pros’ lists are longer than most.

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IT’s greatest enemies

Semantic search capabilities were hailed by a Microsoft official Tuesday as a better way to get users to the information they need. During an interview and a preceding presentation, Scott Prevost, principal development manager for Bing search technology at Microsoft, touted developments in search as well as possibilities. He appeared at the Web 3.0 conference in Santa Clara, Calif

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Microsoft talks up semantic search ambitions

Wi-Fi connections via AT&T more than quadrupled last year, hitting 85.5 million connections mostly made via smartphones from 20,000 hot spots, the carrier said late Monday.

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AT&T sees soaring use of Wi-Fi — just in time for an Apple tablet

Novell on Tuesday will offer a package of tools enabling development of software appliances that bundle the application, application server, OS, and database into a single virtual machine image.

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Novell uveils software appliance development package

Python 2.7, expected to be the last major version in the 2.x series of the dynamic language, was released as a second alpha earlier this month by the Python Software Foundation, with the final release set for June. Two beta version of Python 2.7 and two release candidates are expected in the meantime, said Steve Holden, chairman of the foundation, on Thursday. [ Python is one of the scripting languages sparking a new programming era .

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Last of Python 2.x language line moves forward

Adobe Systems is rolling out on Monday public beta versions of ColdFusion 9, which is the latest version of the company’s Web development platform that leverages server-side services, and the accompanying ColdFusion Builder IDE, for rapid development of ColdFusion applications. Version 9 features enhancements in productivity, integration, and rich Interface development.

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Adobe readies ColdFusion upgrade