Anticipation is building for the first WiMAX World Conference and Exposition, in Boston, November 2-4, 2004. WiMax (IEEE 802.16), is widely viewed as the next significant advance in broadband wireless. For the first time, all of the major WiMAX players, including technologies and applications, will be brought together. This [...]
SlashDot reports China is closing some 1,600 “Internet Bars”, fining them up to $12.1 million. The Chinese government says the Internet Bars were letting young children to play violent and adult-only PC games. Reports say the goverment inspected some 1.8 million bars and ordered about 18,000 of those bars to “to stop operation [...]
There are some 100 million game consoles worldwide about 73 million PlayStations, 16 million Xboxes and 14 million GameCubes. According to the Zelos Group, 45 million full-feature media-capable handsets will be in the global market by the end of the year. Software that supports music, [...]
Need a Halloween mask? Forbes magazine has some famous movers and shakers. Some are heroes, the kind of wealthy people we all aspire to be. Others are villains. And some are both. Click on the images for a full-size, printer-friendly color mask. SlashDot has [...]
Glenn Fleishman of WiFiNetNews, mentioned yet another tiny WiFi detector (the $35 Hawking Detector), and mused out loud what he really wanted:
What I’m waiting for (and Gizmodo is, too) is a detector with a small LCD that scrolls through the open and closed SSIDs [...]
For the documentary Voices of Iraq, Iraqis received 150 video cameras and were asked to film whatever they wanted. The result is a rare look at daily life in Iraq — the tragic, the joyful and the mundane. Filmmakers Eric Manes and Archie Drury talk with NPR’s Michele Norris. [...]
Images from Titan, Saturn’s moon are flooding down to Earth and intriguing scientists (NPR: Science Friday). The first radar images of Saturn’s smoggy moon show what appears to be a large lake, rolling ridges and lavalike flows of ice or ammonia, researchers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory said yesterday. The Cassini- [...]
A Marine unit deployed in Afghanistan is building its own wireless network to let troops communicate with friends and family at home, using donations of money and equipment. Government Computer News reports the 3rd Battalion of the 6th Marines raised $8,000 to buy a dish and pay through December [...]
Conexant Systems today announced that its IEEE 802.11a/b/g dual-band PRISM WorldRadio MiniPCI Module reference design has achieved Wi-Fi Certification for WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia) and WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2). WMM provides superior quality of service (QoS) features for wireless multimedia applications. WPA2 is based on the IEEE 802.11i standard [...]
Electronics giant Philips has launched Inno Hub, a test-bed facility to test and fine-tune products developed at its Philips Innovation Campus. It’s part of the US$90M Philips is investing in Singapore, to develop products under the Connected Planet programme. Philips has also announced its participation in the Infocomm [...]
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