Wireless Holiday
Posted by Sam Churchill on May 31st, 2004Here are some free Flash application downloads. Combine a $99 MP-3 recorder with Audacity (a free multi-track [...]
Archive for May, 2004
ZigBee Gets Real
Posted by Sam Churchill on May 29th, 2004The Zigbee Alliance, meeting in Seattle recently, produced big announcement from a small company, says Dana Blankenhorn. Ember sponsored the Seattle meeting, delivered the main address, and had its implementation chosen as the test bed for Zigbee compliance. Reports from [...]
Atmospheric Monitoring Via Satellite
Posted by Sam Churchill on May 28th, 2004Worried about the coming Ice Age? Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends has just the ticket — The Satellite A-Train. NASA says the information gathered by a “train” of different satellites sweeping over the same spot will improve the understanding of how clouds and aerosols regulate the Earth s [...]
Tracking Cattle with RF-ID
Posted by Sam Churchill on May 28th, 2004CNN reports, every cow in the United States may someday have a unique ID number. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman Tuesday announced the framework for a National Animal Identification System. The system has been in the works for at least 18 months, but development was hurried [...]
Mars Updates
Posted by Sam Churchill on May 28th, 2004Steve Featherstone is filing Dispatches from Mars (Slide Show and ra). The Mars Society has a Desert Research Station in Utah that is supposed to simulate an actual Mars mission. Meanwhile, Back on Mars, the Opportunity rover is surveying the rim of Endurance crater, while [...]
Camphone Gallery
Posted by Sam Churchill on May 28th, 2004Alan Reiter writes about the Rx Gallery’s “Mobile Phone Photo Show”. They have posted more than 1,500 camera phone photos from 350 participants in 50 countries in a real gallery. The Rx Gallery expects to receive some 10,000 images before the exhibit is over, according to an interesting article in the San Francisco [...]
Spaceway Retrogrades
Posted by Sam Churchill on May 28th, 2004Spaceway, the Internet-via-satellite venture, will not provide 2-way internet access for DirecTV, says the Wall Street Journal. Interest in DirecTV’s 2-way broadband service, using the Hughes Spaceway platform, is now focused mostly on delivering HDTV. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that DirecTV would drop Spaceway, prompting one analyst — [...]
Wireless Grocery Shopping
Posted by Sam Churchill on May 28th, 2004Food Lion LLC will open five pilot stores to test a new store concept, format and brand name. It will use wireless webtablets and scanners on grocery cards. At Bloom, Symbol handheld computers with integrated bar code scanners reside in a central kiosk at the [...]
Cringely’s Plan for World Domination
Posted by Sam Churchill on May 28th, 2004Bob Cringely writes about the the Linksys WRT54G this week. He talks about Sveasoft, and its head techie, James Ewing. Through the Seattle Wireless Wiki, he discovered the adaptable WRT54G, and has devoted much of his time since to improving the little box’s firmware. Tim Higgins reviews the WRT-54GS, the [...]
Wireless Houston County
Posted by Sam Churchill on May 28th, 2004Wireless Houston County Committee announced this week that they have successfully completed testing for their wireless broadband implementation. Siemens Business Services, Intel and Alvarion, leaders in the wireless broadband value chain, are collaborating with Houston County business, education and political leaders on this community-based initiative. “Wireless [...]
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