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Archive for December, 2004

Joining the WiMax Club

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 20th, 2004

NextWeb, California s largest fixed wireless ISP serving the business market, has become the latest WISP to join the WiMAX Forum.
Wavesat’s launch last week of a WiMax-capable baseband chip, along with the entry of Ericsson and Sprint into the WiMax Forum, point to 2005 as a seminal year for WiMax development, [...]

GPS-derived Road Tax

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 20th, 2004

Oregon’s idea to use GPS to collect a road tax from drivers is one step closer to reality after a successful pilot, reports Government Technology.
Three years ago, Oregon’s Legislature encountered a problem: Funds available to maintain roads were deteriorating, yet maintenance costs were headed in the other direction. [...]

AT&T + Intel

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 20th, 2004

The Seattle PI reports Intel and AT&T are working together on a range of broadband internet technologies, executives of both firms say. At the core of the collaboration is AT&T’s move away from developing proprietary equipment. With Intel, standardized, interchangeable off-the-shelf parts may be utilized at low cost. No [...]

Cellular Music/Video

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 20th, 2004

Phone Scoop reports Sprint has launched several new streaming-multimedia services, including a broadcast music service and local TV content. The new streaming music content is provided by Music Choice, and includes audio channels for several different genres, as well as the “Music Choice Today” video feed. Music Choice is known [...]

Lockheed in $10B Wireless Project

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 20th, 2004

Lockheed Martin will compete for the next phase of the massive Integrated Wireless Network (IWN), a federal project to provide secure, interoperable nationwide wireless communications for federal agents and allow multi-agency operations between the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Treasury.

The SAFECOM Program, [...]

Motorola Trials 4.9 GHz

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 20th, 2004

Motorola today announced that it has completed the initial phases of a technical trial of the company’s first 4.9 GHz broadband solutions. According to the Motorola project team and public safety agencies in Tulsa, Okla., where the technical trial has been underway since September, the trial has proven the reliability and stability of [...]

Anti-Municipal Broadband Kit

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 19th, 2004

Esme Vos of Muni Wireless has posted a story describing a Do-it-yourself anti-municipal broadband kit
To make it easier for state legislatures to pass anti-municipal broadband laws, the anti-municipal broadband movement is circulating a piece of Do-ItYourself model legislation in various states. You can download the document entitled “Municipal [...]

Motes Croak

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 19th, 2004

Vanderbilt University has built a sensor network that mimics synchronized frog songs. “Several years ago I was on a camping trip and we pitched our tent in an area that was filled with hundreds of tree frogs, says Kenneth D. Frampton, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University. [...]

Eggnog with Steve Levy

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 18th, 2004

Okay, we’re going to take a little break now. You look exhausted…forget about the holidays for the moment. Pour yourself a drink. Relax. Find something good to read. Oh, here we go; how about this Newsweek article on The Alpha Bloggers or maybe this [...]

Stealth Satellite

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 17th, 2004

The Smirking One on Friday signed into law the largest overhaul of U.S. intelligence gathering in 50 years, hoping to improve the spy network that failed to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks. “Our vast intelligence enterprise will become more unified, coordinated and effective,” exclaimed the mighty BushCo with a straight face. [...]