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Sprint to enter Wi-Fi business: Alan Reiter reports from the Wireless Airport Association that Sprint said they'll be entering the Wi-Fi market. Alan also notes that airlines have distinctly different interests in and concerns about wireless networks in airports than the authorities that run those airports and the wireless ISPs trying to install them there. Good reporting from Alan as always.
Intel to invest $150M in wireless networking companies: The Wall Street Journal and InfoWorld reported today that the Intel wants to use its fat wallet to help continue to push for innovation in wireless networking by putting up to $150 million in venture funding into companies. The relationship is nifty, too: Intel has fabrication plants, so the success of new PC technologies not only provides products for Intel to sell, motivates users to buy new PCs, and raises the whole industry, but also gives Intel a track to make the actual chips. Very vertically integrated. [via Adam Engst and Mike Daisey]
An Intel regional manager also noted that mobile PCs (meaning mostly laptops) will rise from 30 to 50 million units by 2006, and 90 percent will have Wi-Fi or other wireless network technology in use.