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Archive for February, 2003

Hacking Cybiko

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 28th, 2003

CYBIKO is a wireless voice and text communicator designed for teens. You can pick one up for under $50. It plays MP-3s, has hundreds of programs and can chat wirelessly with 1 or 100 of your friends. It might be fun to play with. The Cybiko [...]

Wi-Fi Bus

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 28th, 2003

A bus with a webcam and “3G” delivers internet to remote areas in the UK. While we don’t have 3G in the United States, we’ve got something just as good - Wi-Fi. Portland’s Mt Hood Cable Grant has money to spend. Let’s help them. [...]

FatPort + Intel

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 28th, 2003

FatPort, a leading provider of wireless high- speed Internet access in Canada is working with Intel to market hot spots in hotels, airports, coffee shops, entertainment complexes, and other public places. The program coincides with the upcoming March introduction of Intel’s Centrino for notebook PCs that feature built-in wireless. FatPort [...]

ADSL2 Plugfest

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 28th, 2003

DSL Forum, a consortium of nearly 200 companies, and the University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability Laboratory, sponsored a multi-vendor ADSL2 “plugfest” interoperability event earlier this month. ADSL2 (ITU G.992.3), is a new DSL standard approved in August 2002 by the ITU. It provides line diagnostics, power management, [...]

Spectrum Conference

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 28th, 2003

The Spectrum Policy Conference, at the Stanford Law School will feature FCC Chairman Michael Powell, renowned economist Harold Demsetz, and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski. Spectrum policy is undergoing a fundamental reorientation in the United States and elsewhere. Do governmentally-allocated spectrum rights inhibit innovation and competition? [...]

Playstation2 Goes Grid

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 27th, 2003

Sony’s Playstation 2 and I.B.M. will use Butterfly.net for grid computing for gamers reports the Washington Post . They plan to unveil it at the annual Game Developer’s Conference in San Jose next week. The Butterfly Grid will use IBM’s Dual Xeon Blade Servers running Linux. The [...]

Japan’s Affordable Broadband

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 27th, 2003

Japan’s Masayoshi Son lost more money than anyone in history. But he may earn some of it back by solving the last-mile problem, according to Forbes. Thanks to Yahoo BB Japan, his 18-month-old broadband service is on the verge of passing the U.S. in the fraction of households with [...]

Alert Messaging

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 27th, 2003

EmergencyEmailNetwork sends you notification of emergencies by EMAIL, cell phone, or pager from your local, regional and national government. It’s a free service but they send you ads, too. FrontWorks Alert! ensures that critical people and teams are notified simultaneously in case of emergencies [...]

China Gate(s)

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 27th, 2003

China’s No. 2 telecom provider, the State-owned China Unicom will use Microsoft’s software to develop new, data-focused services for its 207 million subscribers and use Qualcomm’s CDMA 1x technology. China is the world’s largest cell phone market. China United is upgrading its existing CDMA network to include CDMA 1x. [...]

Intel + Marriott + The Big Idea

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 27th, 2003

Intel is providing Wi-Fi to about 400 Marriott hotels in the United States, Canada and several countries in Europe. The venture will help Intel drive awareness of hot spots and wireless technologies and also verify wireless compatibility with their new Centrino family of chips and related products. Marriott is [...]