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 connection will loose market share. [...]
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. AOL and Sony will work [...]
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 and [...]
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 mobile phones [...]
The first commercial deployment of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) self-install customer units, using the 802.16 standard with fully mobile access to the Internet is being installed in Churchill, Manitoba. Global Wirelessis using the Churchill deployment as a model to demonstrate the potential as a last mile solution. The deployment represents a totally wireless solution using Global Wireless’ [...]
Broadband4Britian, a lobby group, has been promoting broadband access in Britian. Pressure from lobby groups has been mounting on BT and the government to make sure businesses and residents in all areas have access to some form of broadband. How about www.broadband4yourcity.org A lobby group might gather information for decision makers, comparing different broadband delivery [...]
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