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Archive for April, 2004

WiFi/GPRS Switching for Ambulance

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2004

Seamless switching between GPRS and Wi-Fi networks is starting to arrive - and one of the first to benefit is the London Ambulance Service. The ambulance service is testing technology from the UK’s Broadbeam to switch between five different networks according to their priority, using Wi-Fi [...]

Portable Manpacks

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2004

L-3 Communications announced today availability for first customer shipments of its Multi-band Manpack Receiver, a portable receive-only terminal capable of receiving reconnaissance video and sensor data from multiple airborne platforms. Funded and developed by L-3 through its Communication Systems - West (CS-West) division, the Multi-band Manpack Receiver supports all common UAV Intelligence, [...]

Research Centers

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2004

Oregon State University and the University of Oregon detailed plans on Monday involving their respective technology research centers. They are but two research centers in a world-wide competition. OSU is seeking to develop a research park near its Corvallis campus that would house technology-oriented companies and new companies spun [...]

Blogging the Poles

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 26th, 2004

At the end of February 2004, Ben Saunders set out to ski solo more than 1,200 miles across the Arctic from Siberia to Canada via the Geographic North Pole, explains PocketPC Thoughts. He’s traversing the Arctic alone. Without dogs. His daily blog (complete with photos), is uploaded [...]

X-Box Architecture

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 26th, 2004

X-bit Labs has posted a pretty detailed block diagram of Xbox 2’s Xenon architecture. Microsoft will use IBM’s POWER 64-bit processors in the Xbox 2. The 65nm chips were reportedly taped-out recently and are now evaluated by engineers at Microsoft and IBM, though, the architecture of those microprocessors still [...]

Location Mapping

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 26th, 2004

Bluesoft KidSpotter and LEGOLAND announced today the successful deployment of a full-scale child-tracking application within LEGOLAND Denmark, one of Europe’s largest amusement parks. Visitors to the park can utilize the power of the world’s largest Wi-Fi location network to keep track of their children during their visit. LEGOLAND Denmark [...]

Atheros G Chip Ships

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 26th, 2004

The single-chip, Atheros AR5005G is shipping. It features new signal processing technology that extends the battery life by dynamically adjusting power consumption in response to system and network activity. This technique, claims Atheros, delivers up to 98 percent lower power consumption. The XR (Extended Range) architecture delivers receive sensitivities of up to [...]

President Wants 90MHz

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 26th, 2004

Wireless Week says President George W. Bush is pushing a Spectrum Policy Initiative as an important part for the country’s economic future today in a speech to the American Association of Community Colleges. In remarks before the organization’s Minneapolis convention, this afternoon, the president said his [...]

Moxi Rolls Out

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 26th, 2004

The Seattle Times reports that Kirkland-based Digeo (the Linux-based Moxi settop), announced today that Comcast, the nation’s largest cable provider, has agreed to begin a trial of Digeo’s Moxi media centers in a handful of cities this year. The deal is the first partnership between the [...]

Ekahau Maps a/b/g Clients

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 26th, 2004

The Ekahau Positioning Engine has expanded its Wi-Fi Location Tracking to cover 802.11 a, b and g Networks. “The advances we have recently made with the Ekahau Client, an integral component of the Ekahau Positioning Engine architecture, position Ekahau well ahead of the competition in our ability to support industry [...]