Students and non-students at UCLA have been trying out SmallPlanet’s CrowdSurfer technology on the UCLA campus. Running on Nokia 6600 and 6230 phones, the application uses Bluetooth radio signals to find other users up to 100 feet away while relationship information is made available via GPRS connections to the SmallPlanet.net [...]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today released a report, “Responding to Incidents of National Consequence“. The report includes a prioritized checklist of recommended actions for emergency response agencies and other support information. It provides guidance to fire departments and emergency services across America to [...]
Chip Load, professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, once produced classics like Ant Farm’s Media Burn, The Eternal Frame, and the famous roadside sculpture, Cadillac Ranch (below).
“Cadillac Ranch,” was commissioned by a Texas [...]
Engadget says Alps Electric has announced a miniature 802.11b wireless LAN chip that it says should be appearing in an unspecified and probably Japan-only cellphone soon. Power consumption, one of the main hurdles to putting 802.11b in cellphones, looks like it won t be a [...]
You don’t need a boatload of research on Paul Allen to determine he has an inverse Midas touch - everything he touches turns to shit. Take RCN. The phone, cable and broadband provider spent $1.88 billion on its network between 2000 and the end of 2002 but revenue [...]
More details on Cingular’s 3G rollout are available from Lucent, Cingular, Unstrung, The Feature, Wireless Week and other sources (see DailyWireless Cellular At The Races). Cingular will begin a UMTS trial in their home town of Atlanta, Georgia this summer, but a wide rollout won’t occur until 2006 according [...]
Steve Stroh points out that the FCC has formally released a Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) FCC-04-113 for Unlicensed Operation in the TV Broadcast Band (http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-113A1.pdf) The unlicensed band should penetrate better at these lower frequencies but the maximum allowable power will be about 1 Watt and the [...]
Comcast, the largest US cable operator with 21.5 million subscribers, said on Wednesday it will offer telephone service to more than 40 million households by 2006 (where it’s getting the other 18.5 million households is unclear). Comcast said it would begin an aggressive roll-out of VOIP, or Voice-over-Internet protocol using cable modems. [...]
NPR’s Morning Edition has a story (ra) on Broadband over Powerline. The Federal Communications Commission opened a new facility it hopes will help avoid the equivalent of road rage among users of the radio spectrum. The new anechoic chamber, located at the FCC labs in Columbia, Md., [...]
Gizmodo highlights the Songfinder, which can take bird and insect songs that occur in higher frequency ranges and pitch shift them making the high-pitched calls of birds audible to those who may have lost sensitivity in later years. The Songfinder also can locate [...]
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