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Archive for November, 2002

Enterprise Wi-Fi Gear

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 22nd, 2002

PC Magazine sponsors the Best of COMDEX Awards and chose their favorites from a variety of catagories including BEST OF SHOW (TabletPC), Personal Hardware (ViewSonic V150 airpanel), Personal Software (Corel Grafigo for the Tablet PC), PCs (Toshiba Tablet PC), Digital Imaging (HP ScanJet 5500c), Mobile Devices (Fossil Wrist PDA), Information Security [...]

WIRD Monitoring & Photo ID

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2002

National labs, like Argonne, are hustling on the street for homeland security bucks just like everyone else. Argonne’s spin-off, CityMainStreet, has developed a Wireless Intelligent Remote Detection Systems. WIRDS gathers information from a wide variety of sources including chemical detectors, radiation monitors, biological samplers, language and voice finger printing systems, and high-speed video [...]

RocketCam

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2002

Yesterday’s inaugural launch of Boeing’s Delta IV rocket used Ecliptic Enterprise’s onboard RocketCam. A Sony XC-999 miniature color video camera was used to generate live, full-color video from onboard the rocket. Ecliptic is currently engineering an enhanced RocketCam product line based on Sony’s XC-555 miniature video camera, [...]

Wireless VOD

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2002

Yesterday I attended a showcase of eVolution’s broadband package for low-income residents in the North Portland (Portsmouth) neighborhood. The deal: you pay $250 for a Celeron Gateway PC with a 17″ monitor (no printer) and get six months of cable modem service for $15/month. Then it’s $50/month. I [...]

Jumpstart Broadband Act

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2002

There’s good news, for a change, in telecommuncations. The Jumpstart Broadband Act, may allow more and cheaper long-range unlicensed broadband for the masses. The draft legislation calls for the Federal Communications Commission to allocate not less than 255 megahertz of contiguous spectrum below 6 gigahertz for unlicensed use by [...]

Comcast Closes

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 18th, 2002

Comcast Corp, which started four decades ago with 1,200 cable subscribers in Mississippi, completed the acquisition of AT&T’s cable division Monday for $29.2 billion in stock to become the nation’s largest cable operator. Comcast had been the country’s third-largest cable company, with 8.5 million customers. By acquiring AT&T Broadband, the [...]

Comdex Opens

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 17th, 2002

Comdex, opening today in Las Vegas, showcases the $1.3 trillion tech sector. The show may be declaring chapter 11, but things never looked rosier for Wi-Fi. Conventioneers can use the free internet hot spots, supplied by Symbol, which is showcasing their Mobius Wireless System, an 802.11 approach that centralizes intelligence at the [...]

Intelligent Transportation

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 16th, 2002

The Intelligent Transportation System is an infrastructure providing a new transportation era. Wireless communications will inform the driver and entertain passengers. The 5.9 GHz band has been designated by the FCC for vehicular communications using ITS. The band ajoins the unlicensed 5.8 GHz band allowing dual-band 5.8/5.9 Ghz chips made by Atheros [...]

X-Box Goes Live

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 15th, 2002

X-Box Live, Microsoft’s multi-user, internet-connected game accessory, launched today with generally positive reviews. The Xbox Live Starter Kit ($49.95), provides one year of online play. Seven games currently support online action: Infogrames’ Unreal Championship, Sega’s NFL2K3 and NBA2K3, UbiSoft’s Ghost Recon, and Microsoft titles NFL Fever 2003, MechAssault, and Whacked. [...]

TI’s Switches WiFi Lanes with Autoband

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 15th, 2002

EE Times reports that Texas Instruments has announced a wireless LAN baseband/media-access-control (MAC) processor, the TNETW1130, that will eventually enable roaming among networks adhering to all the IEEE 802.11 standards. Users will be able to roam between different networks without having to manually adjust any of their network settings. [...]