IBM and USA Technologies today announced they will Web-enable 9,000 washing machines and dryers at U.S. colleges and universities. e-Suds-enabled machines will replace traditional coin-operated machines in colleges with a new method that allows students to pay with the swipe of an ID card or the push of a few [...]
The FCC’s UHF auction is on. Winners get 12 MHz on a pair on 6 MHz channels at 710-716 MHz (on UHF channel 54) and 740-746 MHz (on UHF channel 59). These dual (duplex) channels can be used for “3G” cell phones and are called the “C” block by the FCC. [...]
At last night’s Personal Telco meeting, an individual who works at the City’s Media Services Bureau encoding city hall meetings, told me they are planning to move to MPEG-4. The City uses Real’s Helix servers. Another tidbit: the Portland Police may install MPEG-4 video cameras inside the [...]
In the distant past, I once thought Telidon Videotext was the cat’s meow. I saw myself becoming an “electronic gas station” attendant. I imagined people would pull up on the information superhighway and I could supply them with maps and other handy local information. This was in 1981. The Web was a decade [...]
Intel’s Developer Forum (preview), beginning September 9th, will likely include the announcement of a new Digital Home Working Group focusing on networking and interoperabilty issues. Intel hopes to gather support for a home networking initiative that combines Microsoft’s Universal Plug and Play with WiFi and 1394 wired networks. Intel’s pitch is likely to [...]
Missing out on Burning Man? Today’s Calendar of Events shows what you’re missing. Burning Man’s Theme Camps and Art Installations are always inspirational as are the Art Cars. The bbs.burningman.com/ connects live. Matt Peterson helps organize the August Playanet. Matt doesn’t have photos of BM yet but [...]
Roaming is hot. Cellular operators have offered “roaming” for years. The economic viability of true cellular 3G is fading off into the distance but WiFi is here now. In your face. Up close and personal. Soon every PDA and laptop will have WiFi built-in. A cellular operator without a WiFi [...]
Playstation2 is now online. On Tuesday, Sony’s Playstation-2 will get an internet adapter for online gaming. Retailing for $39.99, Sony will be initially targeting the hard-core gaming segment. Sony has sold over 11 million PS2 consoles, and hopes to sell over 400,000 on-line adapters before the end of the year. [...]
The local Fry’s Electronics retailer for Portland, Oregon is advertising $40 USB Bluetooth dongles - the Epox BT-DG02. This makes bluetooth hardware definitively less expensive than 802.11b hardware. How will this affect bluetooth’s adoption rate? What scenarios would someone choose bluetooth over 802.11b? The dongle comes with software that supports Windows XP 2K ME [...]
A new video camera-equipped phone, Toshiba’s A5301T, is the first mobile handset that can record video clips of up to 15 seconds. It’s being offered by Japanese cellular carrier KDDI using the CDMA-based 1XRTT system (similar to Verizon and Sprint). The 310,000-pixel moving pictures can be attached to e-mails and sent to other [...]
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