Starband, the broadband satellite service, ran into trouble this weekend after Intelsat lost one of its major satellites. Intelsat 7 “experienced a sudden and unexpected electrical distribution anomaly” according to the company’s press release; luckily the launch of the IA-8 Ku-band satellite is scheduled for December. The company put broadband subscribers on free dial-up until [...]
The Wi-Fi PLANET Conference & Expo takes place Nov. 30 through Dec. 2 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. The three-day event features nearly 50 cutting-edge sessions with a pre-conference workshop on November 30 followed by two days of intensive sessions within the following tracks on December 1-2: Building the Network; Technical Topics; Wi-Fi [...]
IBM, Sony and Toshiba today unveiled, for the first time, more details behind the Cell processor. EE Times explains that IBM and Sony will invest around $400 million in developing the chip for the PS3. The new chip will be key to new video games by Sony and Microsoft and will allow next-generation computing applications [...]
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology – Cal-(IT)² – is bringing together the best brains in wireless and supercomputing in Southern California. A four-story $44 million state-of-the-art facility opened Friday, Nov. 19 in Irvine. The San Diego building is scheduled for completion in spring 2005. Larry Smarr, the director of Cal-(IT)², is a [...]
PC Magazine’s Road Warrior Gift Guide has a fun selection of gadgetry. We copied and pasted a few. We’ll add our own wireless favorites later. D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G730AP Wireless Pocket Router/AP The portable and convenient Router/AP delivers 802.11g connectivity. The unit will create a wireless connection, share an Internet connection, or link to an [...]
Handtops.com reviews five reasonably priced hardware WiFi finders. They include the; A. Smart ID WiFi Detector – WFS-1 B. PCTEL WiFi Seeker C. Kensington WiFi Finder Plus D. Hawking HWL1 WiFi Locator E. Canary Wireless Digital Hotspotter – HS10 “First generation” analog Wi-Fi detectors, including the $29 Chrysalis WiFi Seeker, $29 Kensington WiFi detector and [...]
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