Intel is expected to launch its next-generation XScale, codenamed ‘Bulverde’, sometime this year. The chip maker announced Bulverde last September at Intel Developer Forum. The next IDF kicks off in the middle of February, and it’s very possible that the company will use the event to fulfil its promise of revealing [...]
Backers of WiMAX hope it could be used as a replacement for T1 lines for business, become a backhaul for 802.11 hotspots, provide Internet access for consumers and get integrated along with .11 into notebook computers some day. But it won’t be easy, as this EE Times article explains. [...]
The Herald profiles Seattle-based TrafficGauge. The founding partners, 30-year-old Ryan Peterson and Eric Meyer, 46, hope their little device has a big future in Seattle and elsewhere. If enough people make driving decisions based on the device’s information, it could improve traffic. Stan Suchan, spokesman for the [...]
A patent awarded to Nomadix last week could force hotspot operators to pay royalties to Nomadix, claims WiFiNetNews. Nomadix co-founder Joel Short (jshort@nomadix.com), 1.800.666.2349, apparently is claiming it developed the technology to redirect customers to a sign-up page first. “Splash” or gateway pages, similar to this one, are essential [...]
The billionth GSM user is expected to make a call next month. With a total of 970 million GSM users at the end of December and an average of 15 million new users a month throughout 2003, the GSM Association, expects the 1 billionth GSM subscriber to connect in the [...]
Virginia Polytechnic will upgrade its Apple G-5 supercomputer with Apple’s recently introduced Xserve G5 servers that have two chips in each box, the university said on Tuesday. Virginia Tech’s supercomputer, which went online toward the end of last year, is the most powerful supercomputer at any university in the world. [...]
Convert a DVD for Pocket PC playback with DVD to PocketPC (review). A memorycard as small as 128 Mb is sufficient to store a full length feature film (up to a hundred minutes). Take your DVD’s on the plane, train or automobile, watch them on vacation, at [...]
Wi-Fi Planet has a great round-up of recent public hot spot announcements:
All 2,300 Best Western hotels will soon have free Wi-Fi. “It’s the No. 1 amenity requested by virtually everyone, especially businesspeople,” said Tom Higgins, CEO and president of the Phoenix-based hotel chain. Free hotel [...]
Tom’s Networking says that Linksys will soon offer a speed-boosted WRT54G 802.11g router. A single 2.4GHz channel is used and Linksys claims “SpeedBooster … “increases ‘real-world’ wireless network performance by up to 30%”. Actual availability for the WRT54GS the Broadcom “Afterburner chips” isn’t known. Lowest pricing [...]
SkyeTek has developed “the world’s smallest RFID reader”. The SkyeRead M1-mini (shown below), said to provide a powerful and cost-effective 13.56MHz multi-protocol RFID read/write module. Socket Communications today announced an agreement to license SkyeTek’s RFID on an exclusive basis for the development of a broad range of products for mobile computing and [...]
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