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Archive for April, 2002

Make your own WAP site

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 23rd, 2002

Whether WAP is Crap depends on what you want. Tiny cellphone displays aren’t meant for web surfing. Getting distilled information is the key. The Wap Catalog, a Yahoo for WAP sites, has a comprehensive database of wireless content for your WAP cell phone. Best of all, you can make a free wap [...]

Bandwidth costs drop 70-80%

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 23rd, 2002

Telegeography’s Terrestrial Bandwidth 2002 confirms that the supply of city-to-city bandwidth far exceeds actual needs.
Yearly OC-3 Lease Prices on Major U.S. Routes, 2000-2002 [...]

Earth Simulator

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 22nd, 2002

I’ve been down this road before but The Japanese Earth Simulator is just too cool to ignore. It’s the world’s most powerful computer…by a long shot. Hans Meuer, the father of The Top 500 Supercomputer List says;
“I expect the ES to be faster than the sum of the first [...]

X Marks the Spot

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 21st, 2002

Using 400MHz X-Scale chips, Toshiba and Fujitsu may provide twice the speed with half the power. The $500 Genio e550G Pocket PC joins the e570 which uses an older 206MHz Intel StrongARM. It will be available in May. Toshiba’s 400Mhz Genio e550G comes with 64MB RAM, 32MB Flash ROM, a Secure [...]

The 6G Solution

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 20th, 2002

Electronics and biology are merging as evidenced by DARPA’s Controlled Biological Systems which plan swarms of insects for real-time collection of information in the environment. Materials science and tissue-based biosensors like synthetic eyes and the Brain Machine Interface will augment human performance “through the ability to non-invasively access [...]

AT&T Debuts mLife

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 19th, 2002

AT&T rolled out mLife in a dozen US cities this week. mLife is a GPRS service using WAP/WML pages, but dual-mode phones are due out later this year, which will allow HTML-based services. The first phones to support mMode are the Sony Ericsson T68, the Nokia 8390, the Motorola Timeport P7382I [...]

Cisco Announces 5 Ghz products

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 17th, 2002

Cisco now has a 5 Ghz Wireless LAN product. The5 Ghz, Cisco Aironet 1200 will support simultaneous operation of dual radios, delivering a seamless migration path to Wi-Fi5 (IEEE 802.11a) and emerging technologies such as IEEE 802.11g. The modular design of the Cisco Aironet 1200 Series AP allows for both single- [...]

Videoconferencing on the run

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 16th, 2002

Samatha Cat imagines swarms of videographers roaming the planet, creating ad-hoc video networks. These “Free Networks” would pop-up at a moments notice whenever shit happens. Make an off-the-shelf wearable. Plug a Bluetooth earpiece in your ear and a stick a consumer-grade USB camera or a camcorder into a [...]

US Robotics 22Mbps Gee Whiz

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 16th, 2002

Tim Higgins reports that U.S. Robotics just announced a line of 22Mbps wireless networking products, built around TI’s ACX100 chipset. The new products should be available June 2002 and include a 22 Mbps Wireless Access Point ($200) and 22 Mbps PC Card ($100).

Video Area Networks

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 16th, 2002

Rob Flickenger once said Network Address Translation (NAT) turns the internet into television. Now television is turning to Wi-Fi. Video over wireless LANs may not be far off. PCs may become home video and music servers if this trend sticks. 802 Planet reports that ViXS technology can deliver four [...]