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Archive for October, 2002

Triple Plays

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 29th, 2002

Spirea AB, a privately held fab-less developer based in Kista, Sweden, today announced it is now sampling TripleTraC, the world’s first integrated tri-band 5.8GHz/5.2GHz/2.4GHz wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver. It supports IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11g(draft) standards on a single chip. Spirea expects the chips to be in full production by Q2 [...]

magic4 joins the Open Mobile Alliance

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 28th, 2002

Magic4, the world’s leading independent producer of mobile messaging software, providing seamless EMS, MMS, IM, SyncML and email applications, has joined the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) for interoperable mobile messaging. Magic4′s mobile messaging solutions, are used by handset manufacturers worldwide. The Open Mobile Architecture (OMA) initiative, integrates the WAP Forum, Location Interoperability Forum (LIF), MMS [...]

FatPort + Covad

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 28th, 2002

FatPort and Covad are teaming to provide “hot spot” internet access in the United States. The one-piece, solid-state, FatPoint intelligent access point is designed for easy installation. Based on 802.11b wireless, location owners only need to plug the device into a Covad DSL line supplied by FatPort. FatPort handles all sales, marketing and support. Fatport [...]

Bluetooth Palmed

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 28th, 2002

Don Park reports: “InfoSync has a very good review of the new Palm PDA announced today, the Tungsten T ($499). Its a very compact PalmOS 5 based PDA with a 144mhz TI ARM-based CPU and a 320×320 16bit color screen. “The really interesting part is its integrated bluetooth. Its not an option, not an add-on [...]

Open Software Development

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 28th, 2002

OSDN will port SourceForge.net to IBM’s DB2 database software for Linux. The site will be fully converted to DB2 by mid-January of 2003. More Open Source developers collaborate on more projects at SourceForge.net than anywhere on the web. It’s the world’s largest collaborative software development web site, with more than a half million registered users [...]

iPass Campus Roaming

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 28th, 2002

iPass today unveiled its On Campus Roaming capability, the ability to use a single user interface and gain a single user experience to achieve enterprise connectivity on and off campus. iPass has developed the Generic Interface Specification (GIS), which defines a method to authenticate subscription users at Wi-Fi hotspots. GIS, which has become the de [...]