Inspired by Robot Wars? Join the club. The Robotics Society of America meets the first Wednesday of the month in SF while the Portland Area Robotics Society meets first Saturdays of the month at 10:30 am at Portland State University and the Seattle Robotics meets the third Saturdays of the month. Many projects [...]
Soccor Moms Loose Sparks were flying at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Spectrum Summit, last week in Washington DC. The radio frequency spectrum held by the military and government agencies is now hotly contested by commercial telecommunications carriers and public service agencies. Both want a piece of the $10 Billion spectrum. [...]
An alternative to DSL and cable modems may be at hand with the completion of the IEEE 802.16 WirelessMAN standard which provides broadband through the air. According to EE Times, fixed wireless is riding a wave of support thanks to the unlicenced 2.4 and 5 Ghz bands and the emerging 802.16 [...]
Seeing is Believing Future phones and PDAs won’t have buttons. They’ll listen. Software from Advanced Recognition Technologies is being integrated into Texas Instruments chips for speaker-independent Voice Dialing and for handwriting recognition. TI’s open OMAP platform, is used by Nokia, Sony, Ericsson, Palm, Sendo, and the Microsoft phone platform. [...]
We have a winner for renaming Unwired Weekly! We put nearly 3 dozen names in the hopper. Voting lasted from April 3rd to April 14th. Many thanks to all the people who contributed those terrific name ideas. Some seem to have solid commercial value so I’d [...]
Talk is cheap The latest Voice over IP products were showcased at Voice on the Net 2002 this week. Three major standards are being debated as candidates for voice-over-IP signaling; H.323, MGCP/Megaco, and SIP. CommWeb explains the characteristics are different for different applications: [...]
Wi-Fi Lite Both Glenn Fleishman and C/Net have reported on Wi-Fi lite, which moves some of functions of an Access Point to a PC. Err… make that a Microsoft Windows PC! Intel plans to turn PCs into low-cost access points while Microsoft is expected to detail its [...]
News Gateways Short Messaging Service (SMS) delivers about 140 characters (2 lines of text) while the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) displays a whopping 1.2K (1200 characters). Every word must count. The funniest.com uses SMS and WAP to deliver entertainment - short and sweet. Local News [...]
BT On the Move British Telecommunications plans 400 hot spots in the UK. They’ll provide coverage in key public areas like hotels, railway stations, airports, bars and coffee shops. U.S. carriers have added wireless Internet access to their commercial offerings. VoiceStream sells Internet access at Starbucks, Nextel, will [...]
Marathon Man The April 15th Boston Marathon (coverage from Channel 5 and Boston Herald), tracks runners in real-time with shoelace-mounted transponder chips. The system tracks a runners progress along the course and provides alerts to family and friends. Volunteers armed with hand-held iPAQs and cell phones track participant’s progress. The [...]
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