C/Net reports that RealNetworks on Sunday announced an agreement to provide audio and video playback technology on handsets offered by British cell phone giant, Vodafone. Vodafone Live provides subscribers with ring tones, interactive games and, eventually, audio and video content. Vodafone will use RealNetworks’ media playback technology for its phones and plans to deliver media [...]
ViXS Systems, leading developer of video networking chipsets and software, and chipmaker Intersil, today announced design tools for the transmission of video over 802.11g. The first part of the deal will see ViXS combining its Matrix dual-channel (MAC) and baseband chip set with Intersil’s Prism Indigo RF front end for IEEE 802.11a WLANs. In the [...]
Orthogon Systems announced today an intelligent broadband wireless Ethernet bridge that offers true non-line-of-sight (NLOS) coverage in the license-exempt 5.8GHz ISM band. The system provides a secure point-to-point broadband link to connect separate networks for up to six miles where obstacles such as trees and buildings prevent a direct line-of-sight connection. The OS-Gemini platform is [...]
C/Net reports that Sun and Microsoft aim to give wireless carriers a way to streamline and centralize billing for downloads like games or ring tones. Most cellular operators have billing systems that are a jumble of sometimes decades-old software, the result of mergers of different phone companies, reports C/Net. “There’s a lot of hokey Band-Aid [...]
Market forces are driving service providers to offer open systems,” said Tom Tauke, senior vice president for Public Policy & External Affairs at Verizon. Speaking today at the Net Neutrality Conference sponsored by the Progress and Freedom Foundation, Tauke urged the Federal Communications Commission to move promptly to establish a national policy for broadband services. [...]
802 Planet describes how DigitalNet, a systems integrator that does about half its business with the defense department and intelligence agencies, installed a Wi-Fi campus network using a FIPs 140-2 compliant Wi-Fi network. FIPs 140-2 (links), is an encryption standard demanded by the federal government. DigitalNet, the world’s leading supplier of TEMPEST and Zone secure [...]
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