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Archive for May, 2003

AirTraf Sniffer

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 27th, 2003

SlashDot sez, “Being ignorant of network vulnerabilities is a happy condition for only so long. Ignorance is bliss, right up until someone with rogue access drives away with your company secrets. This article covers information about AirTraf, an open source package, which performs a number of tasks, such as determining the [...]

Photo Funnies

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 27th, 2003

Photojournalism has changed dramatically says Online Journalism Review. There’s a real opportunity to present a compelling linear narrative experience on the Web. Brian Storm, vice president of news and editorial photography at Corbis, is a major proponent of multimedia slide shows. Some examples include CNN, MSNBC, The Washington [...]

Portland Robotics

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 27th, 2003

Portland Robotics held their annual PDXBOT show, May 25th, in Portland, Oregon. It’s a great gathering of robots (and people). Portland Area Robotics Society, founded about 10 years ago as an informal group of robotics enthusiasts, meets monthly in the Portland Center [...]

Playstation Clusters

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 27th, 2003

When Sony released its PlayStation 2 game console in 2000, little did they know it would end up at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). NCSA’s researchers now have 70 PlayStation2 consoles running as a cluster using an Ethernet network. The individual machines run on the Sony Linux Kit. [...]

Navini’s Pitch

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 27th, 2003

Navini is pitching their S-CDMA system in this article in Comms Design.
“The key difference from first-generation wireless broadband is that today’s networks use technologies such as adaptive beamforming and multi-carrier synchronous CDMA. Instead of blasting a signal in all directions, adaptive beamforming works like a flashlight, with smart antennas [...]

Indy 500 Network

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 27th, 2003

ABC’s ESPN covered the Indianapolis 500 auto race with a variety of data collected in real time from the racetrack. Viewers could find out a particular car’s position on the track, its speed and its RPM, as well as to access photos of and background information. A associated game invited viewers to build [...]

AT&T Bundles

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 27th, 2003

AT&T, based in Bedminster, N.J., and Redmond, Wash.-based AT&T Wireless Services, plan to “bundle” services this summer. The package would combine cellular services from AT&T Wireless and long distance services from AT&T in a discount package. It may be widely available by the end of the year. Several [...]

Redline Wireless Backhaul

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 27th, 2003

Redline Communications, a supplier of next-generation broadband fixed wireless equipment, today announced the AN-30T, a long-range, non-line-of-sight, broadband wireless product for backhaul operations. It provides wireless backhaul for enterprise WANs (using both voice and data) and other applications. “The cost of leased-line circuits represents a significant portion of operational [...]

Navini Unwires Dublin

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 27th, 2003

Navini Networks and Irish Broadband, announced today that they will use wireless wide-area broadband equipment to provide residential and small office/home office customers throughout the Dublin area and beyond, beginning in June. Irish Broadband will use Navini’s Ripwave system and a a zero-install plug-and-play modem. The system offers [...]

Manystream MPEG-4 Delivery

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 27th, 2003

IP Unity, a provider of carrier grade media server platforms for enhanced voice and video applications, today announced a partnership with Manystreams, a leading developer of solutions for intelligent media delivery over broadband networks. Combining the IP Unity Harmony 6000 Media Server with the Manystreams’ MCE-100, a multimedia engine, allows carriers to develop [...]