Dana Blankenhorn is perhaps my favorite telecommunications columnist. He always combines insightful intellect with pithy prose. Case in point: “A bankruptcy court will be holding a hearing that will determine whether former Bell company BellSouth can buy Worldcom’s fixed wireless assets (originally costing $1 billion) for $65 million. What are these assets, you ask? They [...]
Unstrung says, Japan’s largest carrier, NTT DoCoMo, announced today plans for a field trial of a fourth-generation (4G) mobile communications system in Yokosuka. The Japanese government proposed a new cellular communications standard that offers 100 Mbit/s on the downlink and 20-40 Mbit/s on the uplink. This scheme will operate in the 3-6 GHz frequency range [...]
During his time as a free-lancer for The Oregonian, Hugh Ackroyd saw fierce but good-natured competition between The Oregonian and The Oregon Journal. That rivalry came to a memorable peak during 1947′s Rose Festival. The newspapers, which were both afternoon dailies, went to great lengths to be the first to hit the streets with photos [...]
Need a license in the lower 700 MHz band? Cast your bids at the FCC’s Auction 49, starting May 28, in Washington, D.C. The lower 700 MHz auction will get you a pair of 6 MHz channels in Block C: (710-716 and 740-746 MHz) and a single D Block: (716-722 MHz). The upper 700 MHz [...]
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 Service Set Identifier of [...]
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 Post, The New York Times, LA Times [...]
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