Logitech Mobile Video and Verizon Wireless have teamed to bring live webcam images from virtually anywhere to cell phones. Verizon’s Get It Now-enabled phones can view live images from personal or publicly available web cameras directly from their handsets. The application is powered by generationPIX. [...]
Ericsson announced that an ambulance demonstration today showed vital medical data, voice and video using IPv6 and seamlessly roaming over 2G and 3G systems as well as wireless LANs. As part of the EU-project IPv6 Wireless Internet Initiative (6WINIT) it signifies an important step towards the vision of mobile [...]
Here’s a grab bag of satellite related news. Miami-based New Valley, ended an agreement to invest $55 million in Globalstar, the bankrupt satellite telephone company. Buying a $4 billion system for $55 million seemed like a good deal at the time. Globalstar was set [...]
HP will use Atheros chips in tri-mode notebooks, the first to support “tri-mode” (802.11a/b/draft-g) operation. Toshiba’s Satellite Pro 6100 also uses the Atheros 5100x. Meanwhile IBM on Tuesday announced dual-band ThinkPad notebooks with integrated antennas. Intel is delaying use of the dual-band chipset (codenamed Calexico). That means Intel’s ‘Centrino’-based [...]
The Washington Post reports AOL Time Warner, the world’s largest media company, posted a 2002 loss of nearly $100 billion, the largest annual loss in U.S. corporate history. They took a $45.5 billion charge in the fourth quarter to write down the value of assets. The company, which also [...]
“If we knew all about where demand for wireless broadband access is going to end up,” it would be too late to start the company, said Theodore Schell, chairman and founder of Cometa Networks. Cometa is eyeing corporate use of their national Wi-Fi network which plans 20,000+ “hot spots” [...]
The metropolitan area network standard, 802.16a has been approved as and IEEE Standard. I guess I jumped the gun last week on my story, Roger Gets His MAN. Chair of the 802.16 committee, Roger Marks, wrote:
“Congratulations to the whole 802.16a team and to the entire Working Group. [...]
Proxim is upgrading their dual-slot, dual-band 2000 and 2500 series APs and lowering the cost. The 802.11g upgrade kits for the AP-2000 are PC Card based, and fit in one of the two slots in the unit with 17 dBm output power (50mW). The card also has [...]
ArrayComm is “looking at commercial deployment in the U.S. some time next year”, according to Sam Endy, chief operating officer of Arraycomm. Korea’s giant LG Electronics will manufacture and distribute base stations and wireless modems in the second half of the year. LGE plans to have [...]
Tim reports that Ubicom is working with KarlNet for outdoor wireless customer premise equipment (CPE). Karnet uses proprietary firmware called TurboCell™ that enable more efficient use of Wi-Fi cards in metropolitan applications. Ubicom is using Intersil’s line of 802.11g cards. Ubicom has added support for repeater [...]
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