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Archive for May, 2005

Texas Shootout: Little Guys Win

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 31st, 2005

The effort to ban municipal networks in Texas has failed. Texas House Bill 789 originally had provisions to ban muni wireless networks. The Senate passed a significantly rewritten version, without a ban. A conference committee failed to reach agreement, so the bill died when the Texas legislature adjourned this weekend. [...]

Mobile WiMax - Now?

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 31st, 2005

ABI Research is getting lots of traction on their new research report, Opportunities for High Speed Wireless Data in Portable (802.16e) Markets. The ABI report was widely touted by News Factor, WiFi Planet, Internet News, Mobile Pipeline, Wireless IQ and others. [...]

Mini Pentium M

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 31st, 2005

No, it’s not a Mac Mini, explains Silent PC. It’s AOpen’s new Pentium-M based Mac Mini lookalike, codenamed “Pandora”. Unveiled at Computex 2005, this tiny product takes advantage of the powerful formerly mobile Intel CPU into the desktop world. A fully integrated system incorporating wireless LAN, [...]

Metcalfe: WiMax Could Kill WiFi

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 31st, 2005

No less an authority then Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, is talking up WiMax, reports Unstrung. Speaking in an exclusive Light Reading TV interview, the inventor of Ethernet says “it s conceivable that WiMax will just kill WiFi.”
“I m not making that prediction, but it s possible [...]

Embedded MP-3 Virtual Tour

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 31st, 2005

Search Engine Watch has a guide to London.
London offers wonderful opportunities for rambling exploration but it’s also easy to lose your bearings if you’re not careful. Fortunately, the web offers some terrific navigation tools and maps to help you find your way.
Search Engine Strategies London opens tomorrow, and [...]

More UWB Chips

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 31st, 2005

Ultra Wideband chipmaker Artimi, announced it has taken delivery of their RTMI-100 from the foundry. Artimi claim it is the world’s first complete working single chip UWB solution. Samples will be made available to development partners for early design-ins. The RTMI-100 is a complete UWB solution in a [...]

ZyXEL WiFi Phone Wins Award

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 31st, 2005

ZyXEL Communications, announced today that its Prestige 2000W v2 VoIP Wi-Fi Phone won the 2005 SUPERQuest Award for Most Promising New Technologies of 2005 at SUPERCOMM, the world’s premier annual exhibition and conference for communications service providers and private network managers which opens next week, June 6-9, in Chicago. [...]

Alcatel WiFi Switch

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 31st, 2005

Alcatel today announced its latest addition to the WiFi switch family, the OmniAccess wireless LAN, a next-generation enterprise Wi-Fi solution based on their partner, Aruba Networks, designed for voice and data user mobility. It includes stackable and chassis-based switches with provide broad Wi-Fi coverage and radio frequency signal management.

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Packages From Home

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 30th, 2005

Packages from Home puts together boxes of items like sun screen, Gatorade, t-shirts, books and phone cards; anything, really, to make soldiers’ time overseas go a little bit easier. American troops in the field often have to dig into their own pockets to buy those items.

Winds of [...]

PlayDay at PTP

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 30th, 2005

Tom Higgins (email), PersonalTelco’s one-man dynamo for outreach and eduction, has announced a new PlayDay providing newbies and all interested parties a hands-on overview on wireless networks. It’s absolutely free.
On Saturday June 4th 2005 the Personal Telco Project will hold [...]