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Archive for May, 2004

Broadband Wireless Snapshot

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 21st, 2004

Jim Barthold, former editor at Telephony and Cable World, overviews WiMax and related broadband wireless technologies for Broadband Wireless Magazine. Barthold implies a more conservative timeline than is often inferred from press releases
WiMAX s appeal has been tied to the [...]

UWB Chips Demoed

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 21st, 2004

WiFi Planet reports that Motorola demonstrated ultrawideband (UWB) using XtremeSpectrum chips. A camcorder equipped with UWB chips sent video to a plasma television. I can’t improve on Glenn Fleishman’s succinct summary:
Motorola s version of UWB is still winding its way through [...]

PlayStationPortable Specs

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 21st, 2004

The Playstation Portable could morf into something else given its specs and software says PSP Insider. The PSP includes a 333Mhz processor, 32MB Embedded DRAM, 4.3 inch, 16:9 widescreen TFT LCD with 480 x 272 pixels, built-in 802.11b (Wi-Fi) [...]

AF Tests Door Jammer

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 21st, 2004

The USAF has successfully deployed a $5.5 million garage door jamming system at Eglin Air Force base in Florida, according to the state’s News-Journalonline. The Motorola system is keeping garage doors firmly shut in the surrounding Niceville, Valparaiso and Crestview communities. Although technicians have said they [...]

No Consensus - Yet

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 20th, 2004

The Washington Post reports on latest gambit between Nextel and the FCC; The Commission is reportedly pulling back its approval of The Consensus Plan backed by Nextel Communications and public service agencies, according to sources close to the commission. That would mark a setback for the Reston-based wireless [...]

Comcast’s Media Center

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 20th, 2004

Comcast, the largest U.S. cable TV operator, has agreed to use Microsoft’s set-top software for up to 5 million users, the companies said on Thursday. Philadelphia-based Comcast, with over 21 million subscribers, agreed to extend an existing licensing deal with Microsoft, [...]

Korea: Hot Spot King

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 20th, 2004

Telecommunications provider KT will likely have the largest commercial Wi-Fi network in the world, reports C/Net.
KT, which has already installed 12,000 hot spots in its home country, will have 23,000 in place by the end of 2004, Won-Sic Hahn, assistant vice president of the marketing planning group at KT, [...]

Fleet Tracking from EMS

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 20th, 2004

EMS Technologies acquired a suite of fleet tracking software from GEOCOMtms of Quebec City, Quebec. The universal wireless protocol software provides seamless access to different wireless data networks in the same application, simultaneously. Users are successfully tracking and communicating with their fleets throughout North America, using this tracking software integrated with their dispatch [...]

Future Crimes: MATRIX

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 20th, 2004

“If a man can look around this mad slaughterhouse of a world we live in and tell you that man is a noble creature, believe me, that man is full of bull shit”. - Howard Beale
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AT&T’s Phoenix Project?

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 19th, 2004

AT&T will begin a new wireless service later this year, and bought spectrum on Sprint for an undisclosed price, to launch the new wireless service. Now Cingular is in the process of closing its deal to buy AT&T Wireless Services for $41 billion, but AT&T has the rights to the [...]