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Archive for July, 2003

Mobile Hot Spots

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 31st, 2003

Motion Technology announced the launch of the onBoard Mobile Gateway, the industry’s first in-vehicle 3G-based wireless HotSpot. The onBoard Mobile Gateway is really an 802.11b hotspot with a cellular backbone. The ruggedized wireless platform combining the mobility of third generation (3G) cellular data networks with the ease and ubiquity of Wireless Fidelity [...]

Wireless Game Adapters

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 31st, 2003

Wireless Gaming Adapters are suddenly all the rage. They work with X-Box or Playstation 2s and use 802.11b to connect the box to DSL or cable modems. They plug into a product’s Ethernet port and let the product go wireless. The two CenDyne products, one targeting Xbox, [...]

USB + GPRS

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 31st, 2003

Taiwan-based Solomon Technology recently launched the world’s first GPRS modem that supports the USB 1.1 interface. The GPRS modem is built upon Motorola’s i.250 Innovative Convergence platform and offers a maximum data rate of 64 Kbps. The device supports Windows 98 SE/ME/2000 operating system platform. No [...]

TI + Radia

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 31st, 2003

Tim Higgins reports Texas Instruments announced late today that it has acquired fabless RF semiconductor company Radia Communications. TI and Radia previously partnered to develop reference designs for TI’s TNETW1130-based 802.11b/g and 802.11a/b/g products that are Wi-Fi CERTIFIED and part of the Wi-Fi Alliance’s 802.11g test bed. [...]

AudioPad

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 31st, 2003

Wired reports on the Audiopad, a futuristic tool for composing live electronic music, developed by James Patten and Ben Recht. The colorful, dynamic, interactive “mixing” console is projected onto a flat table top. Based on Patten’s earlier Sensetable, [...]

Wireless VOD

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 31st, 2003

On2 Technologies on Wednesday announced a deal to integrate its newest VP6 codec into video-on-demand (VOD) systems built by PERFECTV. On2, which already has licensing deals with America Online, Sony and Intel, will create systems that deliver high-quality VOD programming to consumer television sets. PERFECTV uses network peering [...]

More City Clouds

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 30th, 2003

Milwaukee, Wisconsin is providing free Wi-Fi in two downtown parks. The city-run Wi-Fi service is modeled after the Long Beach Free Zone. Other cities installing unwired “free zones” include Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, St. Louis, Hermosa Beach, and others. Most, like New York, Portland, Ore., [...]

Flash Mob Alert

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 30th, 2003

Please synch your watch now to PDT TIME. http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl Flash Date: 7/30/03 Duration: 10 minutes Start Time: 7:24pm Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square Accessories: an Umbrella On what may become the second hottest day of the year [...]

IBM’s 64bit Cluster

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 30th, 2003

In advance of LinuxWorld, August 4-7th in San Francisco, IBM today announced that Japan’s largest national research organization is the first customer to the new IBM eServer 325 to deliver the world’s most powerful Linux supercomputer as part of a massive, distributed computing Grid to support various research including life [...]

Homeland Security for Teens

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 30th, 2003

Federal emergency workers in the field will get their own mobile communications systems. The Department of Health and Human Services is equipping vans for Emergency Response Teams. About eight to 10 experts from NIH, CDC and FDA can be deployed across the country within 24 to 48 hours of [...]