It's no secret that Nokia plans to release an Internet Tablet with WiMax in 2008, but so far the company hasn't said when this will happen. According to an unconfirmed report, this device will launch during the second quarter of this year.

While speaking with members of the development team, Reggie Suplido from Internet Tablet Talk says he got a sense that the WiMax-enhanced version from Nokia is coming during the April - June period.

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TDS is hosting a press conference to introduce WiMAX to Madison, Wis. After years of research, testing and engineering, TDS will be the first company in Wisconsin to offer true WiMAX — a wireless technology that delivers high-speed Internet and digital phone service over a secure and dedicated connection.

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"Six years into its painfully slow emergence into the telecommunications mainstream, WiMAX, a wireless broadband technology with which VCs have had a fitful relationship, seems to be picking up steam among investors again.

The beneficiaries of the latest round of VC support are DigitalBridge, an Auburn, Virginia-based WiMAX service provider, which received $20 million in funding; and Enforta, a Moscow-based operator which on Wednesday said it got $40 million.

VCs have invested several billion dollars in about two dozen WiMAX chip and network device makers and a small number of service providers led by Clearwire, perhaps the largest WiMAX carrier in the world based on subscriber count.

Clearwire, which has about 350,000 subscribers in the U.S., absorbed a whopping $1.25 billion in venture funding before going public in March 2007."

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