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Archive for September, 2004

The Spectrum Coalition

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

From the deck outside his Pier 69 office, Mic Dinsmore can see a dozen towering container cranes unloading ships at the Port of Seattle’s bustling terminals. As the Port of Seattle’s chief executive, the sight of so much waterborne commerce is reassurance that the engine of international commerce is functioning at flank speed. But for [...]

Linksys + Verizon = VoIP

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

C/Net and CNN/Money report that Linksys announced today that Verizon will use Linksys home networking adapters with Verizon’s VoiceWing broadband phone service. The new VoiceWing service allows customers to use their DSL (digital subscriber line) or cable broadband connection to place telephone calls over the Internet rather than over the traditional telephone network. Customers that [...]

WiMax Testing

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

When Scott Richards is at his home in Portland, Ore., he uses a WiMax connection to connect to his office about 5 miles away, reports SF Gate. The Intel executive connects using an antenna on top of his office building. “There’s a row of trees in between, but it’s pretty clear,” he said. “I’m doing [...]

UWB Chips Do WiFi

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

Startup Pulse-Link demonstrated Wednesday (Sept. 29) the ability to simultaneously support ultrawideband (UWB) and narrowband wireless, such as WiFi, on the same chip, at the Ultra Wideband Conference being held in San Jose, Calif. During the UWB conference, Pulse-Link showed UWB communications across in-home electrical wiring, UWB communications on a 750 MHz cable television network, [...]

Wi-LAN + Radionet

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

Litegeous Wi-LAN and Radionet have formed a sales and marketing alliance to jointly market broadband wireless solutions that combine Wi-LAN’s pre-WiMAX Libra products with Radionet’s Wi-Fi Hotzone solutions (below). Under the alliance, Wi-LAN will deliver products from Radionet (Helsinki, Finland) through its direct sales and channel networks, while Radionet will deliver Wi-LAN’s products through its [...]

XM Satellite Radio Profile

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

Wired has a profile on Lee Abrams and XM Satellite radio: Seven years ago, Lee Abrams found himself in exile. He invented a music format called album-oriented rock, or AOR, which in the 1970s shifted the music industry’s focus from singles to albums and showed radio execs how to hold listeners and attract advertisers – [...]