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Archive for February, 2003

Text-to-speech & Translation products

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 27th, 2003

Fonix Corporation, a leading provider of natural-user interface technology for wireless and mobile devices, Internet and telephony systems, and vehicle telematics — today announced the release of iSpeak 3.0 for Windows, the latest version of Fonix’s popular speech interface software. The $49.95 PC application reads any text file aloud in a natural-sounding male [...]

GPS+TV=Location

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 27th, 2003

Trimble and Rosum today announced that they have signed a technology development and licensing agreement to combine Trimble’s Global Positioning System technology and Rosum’s television-based positioning technology (RPT). The combination is expected to provide a universal solution for indoor and outdoor positioning [...]

Freeview’s DTV

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2003

` Free digital tv is a hit in Europe. In four months, Freeview, which offers more than 20 free channels of digital television, is projected to sell 500,000 settop boxes for about $100 each. There’s no subscription fee. Rabbit ears and a $100 [...]

Satellite 2003

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2003

Satellite 2003, running February 26-28, at the Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C., is the largest convention dedicated to satellite communications In the last two years, the sky has fallen on transponder revenue. Excess fiber capacity has precipitated a 90% drop in data rates. Satellite communications, the main competitor [...]

FCC On Hotseat

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2003

DSL Reports says the FCC will face a hearing today before before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, headed by “Billy” Tauzin, who called the decision “another body blow to the American economy.”
Tauzin believes that “a renegade Republican” simply “assured [...]

Tough Tablet

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2003

Panasonic is adding a Tablet PC to its Toughbook line. It’s based on Intel’s yet-to-be launched Centrino package. The Toughbook CF18 will be launched in mid-March and is based on a 900-MHz version of the new Pentium-M ULV (ultra low voltage) processor and companion chipset with wireless LAN support. [...]

Cyber-attack Policy

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2003

President Bush has signed a secret directive for determining when and how the United States would launch cyber-attacks. According to the Washington Post, it’s the first time a national-level policy has been formulated against enemy computer networks. Similar to strategic doctrine that has guided the use of nuclear [...]

The Longest Shot

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2003

Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to venture out of the solar system, has fallen silent after traveling 7.6 billion miles from Earth. The signal, traveling at the speed of light, took 11 hours and 20 minutes to arrive. The mission lasted nearly 31 years, NASA said Tuesday. Although [...]

Cisco Compatiblity

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2003

The Cisco Compatible Extensions program, announced today, is supposed to simplify management, roaming and security while providing interoperability with Cisco’s wireless LANs and other “Cisco Compatible” products like the their Wireless Security Suite. Cisco will “freely share” technology with chip makers who will embed the technology into their [...]

Multi-mode Antennas

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2003

Innovative antenna maker SkyCross is working with telecom powerhouse SK Telecom to produce small internal antennas incorporating 800 MHz, PCS and 1575 MHz GPS bands. The antenna will offer a 0.3-dBi peak gain in the 800 MHz band and 2.4-dBi peak gain in the 1575 MHz band. Meanwhile, [...]