The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday decided against setting a hard deadline for television broadcasters to air only digital signals, reports C/Net. The U.S. government gave broadcasters a free television channel where they could broadcast HDTV, in addition to the free channel they already have for analog television. John McCain wants [...]
The San Francisco Giants baseball team has implemented a state-of-the-art wireless local area network (LAN) at SBC Park, making the Giants home park among the largest public hotspots in the world.
A wireless program, called the Giants Digital Dugout , provides instant replays, [...]
Tropos Networks has landed its biggest contract yet, netting a deal with Oklahoma City to provide a 400-square-mile Wi-Fi mesh network for the city’s public safety communications. The contract worth about $3.8 million is part of a larger $78 million voter-approved bond issue to completely replace Oklahoma City’s communications systems. [...]
Can a large city provide blanket wi-fi with reasonable costs, asks Broadband Reports?
Technology Review suggests realistic ongoing costs of a city-wide wi-fi network is generally not represented in the proposals, suggesting tax-payers will end up holding that bag. On the same day as this article, Philadelphia gets a proposal from [...]
A microwave beam weapon that uses the heating effect of microwaves to cause pain is to be issued to U.S. troops in Iraq, says EE Times and the UK Telegraph. The supposedly nonlethal weapon, also called “active-denial technology,” has been under development throughout the 1990s at the U. S. Air [...]
First Nikon announced a 802.11g adapter for its professional digital SLR. Now it’s Canon’s turn. The WFT-E1A provides 802.11g connectons for Canon’s new EOS-1Ds. The $7,999, 16.7 megapixel EOS-1Ds Mark II will be a successor to the EOS-1Ds which was announced two years ago, reports Digital [...]
Glenn Fleishman sez:
I m flying with Boeing right now: This post is filed from the Connexion by Boeing test plane flying out of Boeing Field just north of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. I m on board with a number of journalists who [...]
WiFi NetNews points out a new service in the UK lets Wi-Fi users find nearby hotspots with their cell phones. Unless you know where to look, hotspots can be hard to find. By sending a text message “hotspot” to the 84140 SMS short code number, users [...]
TeleAnalytics recently released Public Access WLANs FactBook 2004. The study is based on 22 months of usage records for more than 520 hotspots worldwide and claims to provide the first in-depth, primary research study of the broadband penetration in the US hotel [...]
Intel’s description of Multiple-Antenna Technology in WiMAX Systems in their August Technology Journal, stresses Alamouti Antennas. For WiMAX, the simplest MIMO system is actually a Multiple-Input Single-Output (MISO), says the Intel Journal. Using the Alamouti Code. But what is it? The Intel article says an Alamouti [...]
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