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Archive for January, 2005

NYC WiMax Show

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 26th, 2005

Light Reading’s first ever show about WiMax, called WiMax: Why Now? attracted some 200-plus attendees in New York. Fixed and mobile wireless products were exhibited and presentations were made. Unstrung’s WiMax Guide is the best overview I’ve seen on the technology [Telephony's Guide to WiMax and Intel's WiMax Tech [...]

Improvised Weapons & Wireless

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 26th, 2005

Wired has an interesting article on efforts to defuse and destroy improvised explosive devices:
Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, have been responsible for hundreds of American casualties in Iraq. And so far, there doesn’t appear to be any reliable way of stopping them. The Pentagon, scrambling for [...]

Earthlink + Korean SK Telecom

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 26th, 2005

Korea’s number one cellular company, SK Telecom, and EarthLink, the forth largest ISP in the United States, have signed a joint venture agreement to form a wireless voice and data service in the United States. EarthLink and SK Telecom will each contribute $220 million to the 50-50 joint venture called SK-EarthLink over the [...]

Verizon’s MultiMedia Handsets

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 26th, 2005

Verizon Wireless is now offering the CDM8940 handset, the only EV-DO phone to feature a built-in 1.3 mega pixel camera/camcorder and memory expansion up to 512 MB with a mini-SD slot. The SD slot comes in handy since Verizon likes to disable Bluetooth connections forcing you [...]

Asian Music Downloads

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 25th, 2005

Think Apple’s iPod is the height of trendy? Guess again. Japan does it wirelessly. U.S. cellular carriers, no doubt, will follow. Consider this item from M-Internet360:
Chaku-Uta-Full song download service has been growing at a rapid pace in Japan. Cellular providers KDDI and Okinawa Cellular Telephone reached [...]

Wireless Kiosks

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 25th, 2005

If (when) city clouds become popular, some type of public access will be important. Public kiosks have been used for years in the banking industry. More attractive, cheaper internet kiosks are now available. Touch screen access might even be provided by a Windows CE device with an 8″ screen, TabletPCs or [...]

City Cloud Updates

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 25th, 2005

MuniWireless has the latest developments of Municipally-run wireless clouds. Recent entries: Battle of Lafayette, Louisiana: the People vs Incumbents: The Lafayette public utility wants to roll out fiber to the home to every neighborhood, but the incumbents - BellSouth and Cox - are doing everything they can to [...]

High Court to Hear File Swapping

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 25th, 2005

C/Net reports on the legal battle over file swapping:
Firing the first shots in a legal battle likely to be felt across the technology industry, Hollywood studios and record labels asked the Supreme Court to give them new ammunition in their fight against file swapping. Backed by [...]

Speakeasy Packages FireFox

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 25th, 2005

Broadband services provider Speakeasy, which is launching a WiMax-like service in Seattle, is bundling a customized version of Mozilla’s Firefox 1.0 browser in its self-install kits for residential customers, the ISP said Tuesday. Dubbed the Mozilla Firefox: Speakeasy Edition, the browser downloads quickly and imports subscribers’ [...]

Wireless Cinema at Sundance

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 25th, 2005

The Sundance Film Festival featured the premiere of Rize — the first feature film to be delivered via wireless technology. Wired reports that Rize was delivered via WiMax to a Ski Lodge in Park City Utah.
David LaChapelle’s documentary is an adrenaline-pumping tour through Los Angeles’ [...]