The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft (Space.com, Florida Today, NPR, (images & ESA), performed a flawless 96-minute engine burn Wednesday night and sailed into orbit around Saturn. During the next four years, Cassini will circle Saturn more than 75 times, conducting a detailed study of the planet and its moons and [...]
Iowa motorists, like those in Texas and Maryland can now check their e-mail and surf the Internet at wireless hot rest stops, while they stretch their legs.
The Iowa Department of Transportation said a six-month trial will test three wireless rest stops, then access may expand to 40 rest [...]
At the TechEd conference, in Amsterdam, two Microsoft employees dressed respectively as a cell phone and a PocketPC demonstrated a simple application that enabled them to take a photograph and post it, along with the location, to a Web log. The World-Wide Media eXchange, can couple with SenseCam output [...]
Ricochet has been bought by YDI Wireless. C/Net has the poop on the $3.5 million deal.
Denver-based Ricochet, one of the first “city-cloud” providers used 2.4 GHz networking to link their access points on lamposts. End users could receive 128Kbps using a small, portable modem that worked [...]
UK cellular provider Orange, will expand its French Wi-Fi hotspot service by 1,500 sites, taking its total to 4500 locations by the end of the year, reports The Register.
Growth of the pricey service comes on the back of deals signed with Air France to equip the airlines’ airport business [...]
TechDirt complains about webcams showing people staring off camera (at their monitors), rather than looking you in the eye. There are several solutions.
Microsoft’s research lab has been developing a technique using two cameras under the name i2i. It could be released [...]
DailyWireless was down, yesterday at about 5pm through this morning at 9:30am (June 30). Sorry about that. The disk filled up and mysql and apache got pretty unhappy. Some old apache logs were archived to clear up more disk space.
Thanks for your patience.
– Sam [...]
Tom’s Networking and Design Technica report that Broadcom, has a one-chip, 802.11g design.
Broadcom’s AirForce One 54g solution features:
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), and all features required for the upcoming WPA2, the Wi-Fi Alliance certified interoperable implementation of the recently ratified IEEE 802.11i standard.
Hardware support for [...]
T-Mobile is providing the ability to download music to mobile phones. But, as The Register notes, Apple needn’t fear for its iPod just yet. T-Mobile’s new ‘Ear Phone’ handsets can hold just three songs at once. And each song is limited to a 90-120 second clip – and they’re not cheap: [...]
Nearly six million customers are using UMTS 3G services today and that number is expected to more than double by the end of the year,” stated Chris Pearson, President of 3G Americas, the promotional arm of GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS throughout the Americas.
“We have seen the commercial launch [...]
