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Archive for April, 2005

DTV Deadline

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2005

A group of U.S. high-tech heavyweights on Wednesday urged Congress to set a firm date for the transition to digital signals for television broadcasts, saying it’s critical for innovation and jobs, reports the AP. The High Tech DTV Coalition, launched Wednesday, includes Dell Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., International Business Machines [...]

RSS Feeds: Tiger by the Tail?

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2005

DailyWireless was temporarily down this morning. Sorry for the inconvenience. On the subject of server/weblog reliability, Om Malik has some interesting observations about RSS feeds on Apple’s new OS-X (Tiger), due tomorrow.
In less than 48 hours many of us will be installing Tiger OS-X [...]

Business 2.0: Roadmap to Broadband

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2005

Business 2.0 scoured the nation to find cities and towns that sit on telecom’s frontier.
Communities across the United States are rolling out sophisticated broadband technologies to take the future for a test-drive. The pages that follow offer an overview of the places that [...]

Event Blogging

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2005

Here’s a good idea whose time has come: Event Blogging:
Hi there. I’m Kris. I’m a designer, writer, photographer, and webmonkey based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

I’m getting a new kind of public relations company off the ground. I plan to [...]

Tracking Postal Vehicles

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2005

ComputerWorld explains a new vehicle ID and tracking system used by the U.S. Post Office.
In January, the Postal Service contracted with I.D. Systems Inc. and Unisys Corp. to develop an enterprisewide wireless asset tracking system dubbed PIVMS, or Powered Industrial Vehicle Management System. The tracking technology will help the [...]

MIMO On 4.9 GHz?

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2005

Unstrung offers some insight on Qualcomm’s 802.11n (MIMO) play. They climbed into bed with Intel on TGn Sync. Who would have thought…
Paul Jacobs, the new boss at the big Q, shed a little light on Qualcomm’s move towards 802.11, on the firm’s second-quarter earnings call. [...]

Tropos Mobilizes

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2005

Tropos, the leader in urban meshed networks, has introduceda new product family that includes the Tropos 5210 outdoor MetroMesh (pdf) router, the Tropos 3210 indoor MetroMesh router (pdf) and the previously announced Tropos 4210 mobile MetroMesh router. The new product family uses [...]

Nokia Multimedia Phones

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2005

Nokia’s new N Series phones combine MP3 players, 2 megapixel cameras for stills and video, and a web browser. The first Nokia Nseries products, N 70, N 90, and N 91, are expected to become available during the second quarter of 2005 followed by several more by the [...]

Using Bluetooth 2.0

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2005

Macworld interviewed Glenn Fleishman for their first Geek Factor podcast, talking about Bluetooth 2.0.
We had a very detailed conversation about the issues around Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) and what it means for cell phones, headsets and headphones, and the future of the standard. I start about halfway through the [...]

Real Music To Go

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2005

Real Networks today announced that users who do not subscribe to its Rhapsody music service can listen to 25 songs each month for free, hoping to lure users away from Apple’s iTunes Music Store using a free trial campaign. Moreover, Real is looking to turn illegal music pirates into legal music [...]