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Archive for April, 2002

The 80% Solution

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 9th, 2002

Wild Tangent Earthlink is offering a $199 Windows CE Settop FREE in exchange for a 2-year service contract. How about bundling FREE broadband internet access, too, purrs The Cat. Completely optional games, MP3s and movies could generate $20-$40 in monthly revenue. Multiplayer games, like Sony’s Everquest, have [...]

Don’t Worry

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 8th, 2002

Be Happy Bend, Oregon, residents will be the first on the West Coast to use GPS-enabled wireless phones to automatically send their location to 9-1-1 operators. This “Phase II” location service is the result of a collaboration between location providers Airbiquity) and Plant Equipment Inc. (PEI), working in tandem with Edge [...]

Subducting The Zone

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 7th, 2002

On The Beach Samatha was digging on the sea shore when she came across a message written in the sand, “The more things change the more they will never be the same.” A vast undiscovered ocean lies before us. The cloud is vast, deep and invisible. It’s [...]

802.11 on Buses and Electronic Field Trips

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 3rd, 2002

Electric Bus Verizon and Sprint now offer 40-60Kbps anywhere. Even on buses. UCSD’s shuttle bus provides 802.11b inside using Verizon’s 1XRTT for the backbone. Could free internet access be provided to commuters? Probably not with a by-the-packet cellular backbone. But “4G” systems like Flarion, Navini and [...]

Wind River and Atheros Partner

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 3rd, 2002

The Two Chip Solution? ALAMEDA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 3, 2002– Wind River Systems and Atheros, have agreed to license and resell Wind River’s Tornado Home Gateways platform using Atheros new highly integrated chips. It can be used unaltered or as a starting point for developers. The Tornado [...]