Wireless mobility implies small devices with small screens. How can you pack more information into less space? Greg Elin has an answer - Fotonotes. Fotonotes annotates JPEG files, embedding text inside pictures. As you roll your mouse over the image, a section is highlighted and text appears. The Shifted Librarian [...]
Computer World notes that Palm and Pocket PC users might add “survival” to their hand-held applications. The electronic guides, Terrorism Survival Plan Database and Terrorism Response Database were developed by Stephenson Strategies and Town Compass to pick up and go. The two first modules are priced at [...]
DSL Reports, a terrific broadband resource and a constant source of news that I haven’t seen elsewhere, has this cautionary tale for those considering municipal broadband facilites; prepare for a dirty fight. Karl Bode reports the push for municipal broadband in the Illinois cities of Geneva, St. Charles, and Batavia [...]
From this week’s Spencer F. Katt.
Wireless Week reports that T-Mobile USA has abandoned their E-911 location technology called Enhanced Observed Time Division of arrival (E-OTD), which uses triangulation to determine location. Instead they’ll move forward with Time Division of Arrival technology. Fellow GSM operators AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless abandoned the triangulation method earlier under [...]
China Mobile Communications, the world’s largest mobile operator, is unlikely to adopt a homegrown Chinese standard for the next generation of mobile phones, the technology’s chief backer said Wednesday. The Chinese technology, known as TD-SCDMA, is a challenger to two better-known technologies, GSM-based W-CDMA and CDMA-based 1XRTT & EV-DO (CDMA2000). [...]
HP today was awarded a $100 million contract to provide and manage the technology infrastructure for the groundbreaking Classroom 2000 (C2K), the education project in Northern Ireland. The 10-year government initiative, designed to connect the largest number of pupils, teachers and administrators in the world, will [...]
MeshNetworks has announced they will enable the next generation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and public safety solutions for Local, State and Federal Government with the signing of a value added reseller agreement. The federal government through the Department of Transportation, the Federal [...]
Howard Reingold, who swears he’s not going to post any more stories on antiwar protests using smart mob technologies (because it’s so common), couldn’t help but include this one from the AP:
John Parulis didn’t carry an anti-war poster or wear a “No blood for oil” placard. [...]
Tim Higgins reports that SMC Networks today launched its EliteConnect High Power wireless networking line with the introduction of the SMC2532W-B 2.4GHz 802.11b High Power Wireless PC Card. The new SMC 802.11b card has 200mW of transmit power, about twice the power available from the [...]
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