Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends points out NetAttack “a new type of indoor/outdoor Augmented Reality game that makes the actual physical environment an inherent part of the game itself.”
Developed by students and researchers from Fraunhofer FIT, the initial experiments use volunteers on their campus.
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Fujitsu Microelectronics America and Wi-LAN, a provider of broadband wireless gear, today announced their joint goal to produce the world’s first WiMAX Certified* System-on-Chip (SoC). Engineering samples are planned for the fall of 2004, and the complete system is expected to be available for WiMAX Forum* conformance and interoperability testing [...]
Google filed for a prospective $2.7 billion sale, valuing the company in the $20-25 billion range. There will be two classes of stock, one with supervoting rights (ten times those of regular shareholders), which keeps power squarely in the founders’ hands. Google will auction all of its shares.
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London will become one of the world’s leading wireless cities, the Westminster Council said today as it cut the ribbon on a project to turn the West End into a Wi-Fi zone for equipped with cameras for city workers.
Unstrung Reports WiMax will be a big part of it.
Intel shared [...]
Wireless tops the list of CIO priorities, according to an article in Wireless NewsFactor.
“I would wager that you cannot find an executive within our company who doesn t have a Blackberry and isn’t connected 24×7,” says Northrop Grumman CIO Thomas Shelman. “If I was to e-mail our CEO right [...]
Will Alcatel buy Navini? Unstrung speculates that could be a possibility given Alcatel SA’s OEM deal with Navini .
Last week Alcatel announced it is to rebadge Navini s Riptide fixed wireless infrastructure kit for those customers unable to wait for industry ratified WiMax [...]
Sputnik, a San Francisco-based provider of secure managed Wi-Fi software and hardware, and start-up eWireless, hope to make Indianapolis one of the top 10 wireless cities in Intel’s annual survey. Sputnik will provide software and hardware while eWireless will deploy and service a WiFi “cloud” across greater Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, [...]
Wireless Week and WiFi Planet report that former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt told told the Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday, that wireless broadband is currently allocated to the wrong spectrum and the result is hampering the growth of the technology.
Hundt said wireless broadband should be put in the same spectrum [...]
Flickr, the image-sharing social software app, has announced new features, including Photostreams, a new way to share your photos on Flickr. All the photos you upload automatically go into your Photostream, but different viewers see different images, depending on their relationship to you.
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Portless Networks is testing a Linksys WRT-54G modification that embeds NoCat inside. The modified Linksys Box, unveiled at last night’s PersonalTelco meeting, eliminates the need for a computer. It embeds NoCat captive portal software inside the small, popular 802.11g Linkys box which can be found in office supply stores for around $80. By [...]
