RF-ID chips can be cracked using cheap technology, U.S. computer experts said Saturday. The radio frequency identification (RFID) system, commonly used in car locks or gas cards uses a relatively simple code that criminals can easily decipher, making it easier to steal a car or get a free tankful of gasoline, [...]
The City of Quitman, GA (pop. 4500), is getting a mobile wireless broadband system from Navini Networks. It will use Ripwave Element Management System (EMS) with Rodopi Software’s EasyOSS billing for managing accounts. Camvera Networks was contracted to design and deploy their new wireless broadband network. “We are very [...]
WiFiNetNews reports that Apple will add Bluetooth 2.0 to its laptops:
The entire PowerBook line of laptops will include both AirPort Extreme (802.11g) and Bluetooth 2.0, which adds a 3 Mbps flavor to Bluetooth. This new flavor of Bluetooth is called Enhanced Data Rate (EDR). [...]
Talk America, which offers a bundle of local and long distance telephone services to residential and small business customers in the United States, has deployed an enterprise grid computing infrastructure with Oracle 10g software at its core. “In the past, the database has been a single point [...]
Sprint has joined the WiMAX Forum as a Principal Member. The industry-led, nonprofit corporation was formed to promote and certify compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based on the IEEE 802.16 standard. Many other carriers are members, so it is only surprising that Sprint, which [...]
Do you have any idea how much your phone company spends just in maintenence? No, I never really thought about that. Well, I guess many people don’t. But those billions of miles of wire and all those exchanges… Why just the maintenance on our thousands [...]
The MA-11 was a two-channel amplifier, a box hung from a neckstrap, designed to record newsfilm sound in the seventies. It had a power switch, a button to check “bias” and a VU meter that measured audio input. You plugged in one or two mics, zeroed the [...]
The IEEE 802.11n Task Group, narrowed the remaining 802.11n proposals to two last week. Qualcomm has joined Intel, Nokia, Sony, Samsung, and others, announcing their membership in the TGn Sync club. TGn Sync is targeting the developing IEEE 802.11n WiFi “standard” for 100 Mbps WiFi. They want to be The One. [...]
Mike Masnik of Tech Dirt says;
Back in October, we wrote about plans in Taiwan to cover the entire island in WiFi. It looks like they’re trying to get that project moving, but it’s changed a bit, such that they’re now promoting how it will be a “dual network” [...]
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