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Archive for May, 2004

Sprint Nears Broadband Decision

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2004

Sprint could reveal plans within the next month for a high-speed wireless data service, according to Forbes magazine. Legg Mason analyst Craig Mallitz said in a note to clients, he expects Sprint, the No. 4 U.S. mobile company to formalize plans to use EV-DO technology, the same technology as [...]

Demographic Mapping

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2004

Free WiFi clouds will need a revenue stream. Two possibilities include advertising and subscriber content. Mass media and direct mail uses demographic maps to target messages but HotSpots don’t provide such a capability — until Lee Gomes showed everyone how to do it. Wall Street Journal writer Lee [...]

Mobile TV Spectrum

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2004

One of the first DVB-H trials in Europe will begin next month in Berlin, followed by a larger pilot run with 500 consumers in metropolitan Helsinki, Finland, this fall, reports EE Times. DVB-H, the portable digital television standard developed in Europe, enables PDAs and cell phones to receive off the [...]

Judgment Day

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2004

NASA is launching a robot plane program for U.S. airspace. An industry association, the UAV National Industry Team, as well as the Defense Department and Federal Aviation Administration, are also participating in the five-year program to deliver proposals and recommendations to the FAA. “The [...]

Comcast Is Spam King

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2004

C/Net reports that Comcast’s high-speed Internet subscribers are the biggest spammer on the Internet. In a politically incorrect moment of truth-telling, Comcast network engineer, Sean Lutner reportedly told an antispam working group in Washington, D.C., last week, that Comcast users send out about 800 million messages a day, but [...]

SD WiFi + 256MB

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2004

Tom’s Networking reports that SanDisk today announced its long-awaited SanDisk 256MB + Wi-Fi SD Combination card for $129. Based on the SyChip, it’s the only available card to include both memory and WLAN (802.11b) communications in a single SD card. The [...]

Yahoo Messenger Ads Features

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2004

Yahoo!, today formally unveiled the newest version of its popular Yahoo! Messenger service. The all-new Messenger provides Yahoo! services like LAUNCHcast Internet radio, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! AddressBook, and Yahoo! Search right in the messaging window, plus features like Avatars and Audibles. “With [...]

Aperto Networks Adds Gear

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2004

Aperto Networks, at the 2004 Wireless Communications Association Conference in Washington DC this week, expanded its PacketWave family to include a new base station called the PacketWave 760 (PW 760) and provided a roadmap for WiMax certification. Aperto says their PacketWave system [...]

Secret Life

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 23rd, 2004

Let’s celebrate Spring. Join professor Tom Eisner of Cornell, one of the world s foremost entomologists, in a walk through Central Park with the Next Big Thing, looking for insects (ra). Scientists have learned how to build radar transponders [...]

WiFi Lamp

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 22nd, 2004

An 802.11b lamp, designed by VIOLET, has received the prestigious award from the Observeur du design. The lamp, called Dal, not only connects to the Internet, it’s an Emotional Messenger. Dal can display the weather [...]