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Archive for December, 2004

USB Clients Go Long

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 22nd, 2004

Netgear announced the availability of its Double-108 Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter (WG111U), which simultaneously supports two separate wireless streams each at rates of up to 108 Mbps — a 2.4 GHz 802.11b/g stream and a 5 GHz 802.11a stream. The USB 2.0 adapter uses Atheros Super [...]

Netgear MP115 Media Server

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 22nd, 2004

Netgear today announced a Wireless Digital Media Player (MP115). It provides access to video, photo, and music file collections from anywhere within the home network, streaming digital media content wirelessly from the PC or the Internet to the TV and home stereo system. Operating on both 802.11b and [...]

Space Mist

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 21st, 2004

Barf: I know we need the money, but… Lone Starr: Listen! We’re not just doing this for money… We’re doing it for a SHIT LOAD of money! - Spaceballs A massive new Boeing rocket, the Delta IV (see DailyWireless [...]

Future Talk

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 21st, 2004

John Yunker’s Unwired Blog has a very interesting interview with Dave Mock, a wireless consultant and analyst with currentofferings.com and author of the forthcoming book The Qualcomm Equation. He asks some good questions and gets thoughful answers. Check it out. Here’s an interview [...]

Canopy Across Canada

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 21st, 2004

Motorola and Barrett Xplore today announced a multi-million dollar equipment contract for the deployment of a wireless broadband network in specified cities throughout Canada using Motorola’s Canopy Advantage Platform. The contract has an initial term of three years and can be extended through 2009 if sales targets are met. If [...]

Cellular Bakery

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 21st, 2004

Engadget explains that cellphone towers may be a blight on the landscape, and they might even alter human DNA, but who would have thought they interfered with making bread.
According to the BBC, the Artisan Bakery, in Kent, England, tracks planetary movements to determine the best [...]

CarNet & Traveler Info

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 21st, 2004

Car makers BMW, Audi, Daimler Chrysler, Volkswagen, Renault and Fiat have won a German government grant to help develop the basis for a standard method for car-to-car wireless data, reports The Register.
The money will be used by Network on Wheels (NOW), a project run out of the University of [...]

Wireless Advertising on Buses

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 21st, 2004

The Toronto Transit Commission plans to be the first public transit system in North America to bring television and digital advertising onto its underground platforms and into its subway trains, according to the Globe and Mail. Wi-Fi hot spots will be deployed on a test basis this spring. Eventually, it [...]

Cat Fight Over Pet ID

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 21st, 2004

When the Oregon Humane Society suddenly switched the kind of microchip used for pet identification last December, veterinarians balked, reports the Oregonian. Many refused to buy scanners that could detect the new chips; others railed at the society on the phone and in letters. Now the humane society has returned [...]

Winter Solstice

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 21st, 2004

It’s the Winter Solstise. December 21st is the first day of Winter and the shortest “day” of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere is basking in sunshine, of course. Check out the North Pole (artic) webcam (it’s dark). It’s a mystery how Santa gets [...]