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Archive for August, 2004

NRO Rides Again

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 30th, 2004

This evening at 6:53 p.m. EDT, Lockheed Martin and International Launch Services hope to launch the NROL-1, thought to be a Mercury signals intelligence spacecraft, atop an Atlas 2AS rocket, operated by the National Reconnaissance Office. Update#1: The launch has been rescheduled for Tuesday at 6:49 pm EDT. [...]

What Elephant?

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 30th, 2004

Om Malik, a senior writer with Business 2.0, has an interesting observation:

Business Week in an editorial writes… “The U.S. is becoming something of a broadband backwater, a place where almost no one can do what Kato and millions of other Japanese take for granted. Many Americans may think that the U.S. is making [...]

Aruba’s Wireless Grid

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 30th, 2004

Aruba Wireless Networks today introduced the wireless grid, which builds on Aruba’s centralized approach to securing and managing enterprise Wi-Fi networks. Aruba’s wireless grid employs densely deployed Wi-Fi radios with centralized control. The architecture brings access points (APs) out of the ceiling and into the existing structured cabling [...]

Live Webcam Phones

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 30th, 2004

Sprint PCS Vision customers who subscribe to EarthCam Mobile will have the ability to broadcast and share live images from their personal PC-mounted webcam right onto their phone. EarthCam Mobile costs $4.95 per month. “It is our belief that camera phones will increasingly become the next generation of webcam,” said [...]

Olympic Spectacular!

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2004

NBC coverage of the Summer Olympic Games from Athens attracted 193 million unique viewers through Day 13 (Aug. 25), surpassing the total viewership of the full 17-day Summer Games telecast on NBC from Sydney in 2000.

It took my breath away. Bravo NBC! [...]

Republicans Unwired

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2004

New York City holds the 2004 Republican National Convention, August 30-September 2nd. The GPO will bring 4,853 delegates and alternates to the convention, but thousands of reporters and hangers-on will cover the proceedings. Live. National Public Radio, PBS and C/Span will have gavel to gavel coverage. Manhattan Cable has [...]

BikesAgainstBush Impounded

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2004

Xeni Jardin in a post at Boing Boing reports activist Joshua Kinberg — inventor of a wireless, bike-mounted, dot-matrix printer for spraying protest messages in the street — was arrested yesterday at the RNC in NYC. At the time, he was reportedly being interviewed by Ron Reagan, covering the [...]

Cable Modem 3.0

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2004

Communications, Engineering and Design Magazine has an overview of a newer, faster, cable modem standards from CableLabs.
"DOCSIS 1.0 is the Trojan Horse, and DOCSIS 1.1 is the Greek soldiers inside,” says Ryan Jones, media and entertainment analyst for the Yankee Group. [...]

CDPD Gets Arrested

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2004

Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) is going away…but not just yet, according to Mobile Radio Technology Magazine. The onerous some would say ridiculous deadlines that Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless initially planned have been amended. CDPD was supposed to be disconnected in [...]

Emergency Handhelds

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 27th, 2004

While cruising through my home town’s web site, I discovered that Portland s Bureau of Emergency Communications (BOEC) has implemented wireless access for Pocket PC devices. It ties into the city’s Computer Aided Dispatch system. Field personnel using the new PPC software securely receive and respond to dispatch incidents, [...]