Newsplex is a newsroom of the future by the University of South Carolina. If broadband, IP-television ever takes off, Newsplex could be a good model. It’s designed to support a single multiple-media story team of 5 to 10 people and is a microcosm of a complete newsroom of the future. [...]
ZD Net reports that Intel’s Emerging Platforms Lab will help design a Personal Video Player, about the size of a paperback book, which will download content via USB 2.0 or 802.11b wireless networks. It may work with Intel’s Media Center, a home gateway device. The Portable Video Player will use [...]
Wireless Review explained the basic economic facts of life. It’s not the end user who matters to most wireless ISPs, it’s cellular providers. Cell towers generally lease a T-1 from The Phone Company. But, explains David Twyver, CEO of Ensemble Communications,
“Availability on leased T-1s is ‘atrocious,’ …with three [...]
Declaring Virgin Mobile, “has nothing to hide”, Richard Branson stripped down to the bare essentials at Virgin Mobile’s Time Square unveiling. Virgin Mobile USA, a joint venture with Sprint PCS, resells access to the Sprint PCS network. Virgin will promote a no contract, prepaid offering and brand [...]
A mesh networking article in Wired overviews Mesh Networks, SkyPilot, CoWave Networks , Nokia’s Rooftop Mesh and Ember. Relaying a signal through your neighbors is sometimes the only way to get broadband. Backbones based on DSL (or wireless ISPs) often can’t reach. The disadvantage; relaying your signal [...]
Hot spot integrator, Boingo Wireless and hardware/software provider NetNearU, today announced a $595 turnkey “box” for Boingo hotspots. Boingo splits hourly or monthly fees with their network affiliates. NetNearU will provides wireless management software including equipment monitoring, revenue reporting and end-user credit card authentication. Boingo Wireless also has an $895 “Hot Spot [...]
Officials from states across the nation will gather in Portland this weekend to tackle regulatory problems, including telecom and electricity utilities. I’m not a telecommunications professional but I can’t help but wonder if we’re getting our money’s worth. Let’s make telecommunications networks efficient and interoperable - even beneficial [...]
Sprint PCS, may roll out their 2.5G service August 10th but Sprint’s PocketPC phones need an eye-popping demo. Ananova could be it. She’s an animated news reader with more personality than Brian Williams. Character animation requires very little bandwidth and can read the news in a variety of languages. Land’s End uses My [...]
FatPort, an operator of turnkey 802.11b public access points, will integrate iPass software for flat-fee roaming between different “hot spots”. FatPort’s integrated 802.11b box runs Linux from Compact Flash cards. Fatport offers a revenue sharing deal like Boingo and Joltage. iPass plans to enable hotspot locations with Virtual Private [...]
SkyTower, an unmanned solar-electric aircraft, developed by AeroVironment, transmitted several hours of 3G mobile voice, data, and video services to multiple handheld user devices on the ground. A 24 Mbps HDTV transmission was also achieved using only 1 watt of power. The SkyTower platform, flying 12 miles [...]
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