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Archive for May, 2005

Next Generation 911?

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 26th, 2005

Today at the National Press Club researchers from leading universities and technology companies will demonstrate a proof-of-concept for a next-generation E9-1-1 solution. Called NG9-1-1, this is currently the only solution that ensures that emergency callers will reach the help they need regardless of the technology used to originate or answer the call. MapInfo [...]

Airspan Gets 700 Mhz Order

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 26th, 2005

Airspan Networks announced today that it has made its largest WipLL 700 MHz and 900 MHz Broadband Wireless Access system sale to date in the United States through its Authorized System Integrator, Stutler Technologies. The system will be used by Central Wisconsin Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wood County Telephone [...]

HiSeasNet Goes Live

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 26th, 2005

An international team of scientists and students aboard the Hawaiian Research Vessel Kilo Moana are studying a Samoan Hotspot - 600 meters beneath the South Pacific. They are participating in the first ever student-to-student videoconference between a high school and a research [...]

The Quadruple Play

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 26th, 2005

A new study from the Ipsos-Insight market research firm says people want wireless minutes added to the “triple play” bundle. Bundles that add wireless phone service to VoIP, television and Internet services will become highly popular, according to the study released Wednesday. Telephone and cable vendors have [...]

WiFi Telemetry

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 26th, 2005

The Red Bull Cheever Racing team at Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, will use Cisco wireless IP gear to feed information back to engineers in their pit crew. The gear will detail everything from engine temperature to velocity to tire pressure, says C/Net.
“The Cisco Wi-Fi solution has dramatically improved the [...]

Cop Car Cams

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 26th, 2005

Following the first implementation of Motorola’s Mobile Video Enforcer (MVE) system this spring in Wilmington, N.C., municipal police agencies in Toledo, Ohio; Southold, N.Y.; Kernersville and Cary, N.C.; and Bossier Parish, La., are now using it. “The Motorola MVE system offers great picture quality which is [...]

Singapore Hotspots

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 26th, 2005

Pacific Internet Limited, Asia Pacific’s largest telco-independent Internet Communications Service Provider by geographic reach, recently launched a public wireless broadband service in Hong Kong in partnership with Y5ZONE, a wireless connectivity solutions provider.

It’s immediately available at over 100 public hotspots in Hong Kong, covering shopping malls and [...]

Adaptix + LG= WiBro

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 25th, 2005

WiMaxNetNews and Unstrung report that LG Electronics will use Seattle-based Adaptix channel cards in LG’s WiBro products.
“Korea is the world’s leading market laboratory for broadband communications technology,” said Vern Fotheringham, president and CEO of ADAPTIX. “And we expect neighboring countries, such as Singapore, China, Japan, India and [...]

Heartland Says The World Is Round

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 25th, 2005

Don’t you just love those reports from the Heartland Institute? Like a bad movie, their reports are always appealing. Lots of nugets. Heartland doesn’t claim to offer a balanced diet. And that’s fine. Still, they might make a better case if they’d stick to the facts and offer a more reasoned case for [...]

WiFi Picnic

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 25th, 2005

Smart Mobs says; Parisian bloggers Natacha Quester-S m on, Sacha Quester-S m on and Tristan Mend s France propose a new kind of smart mob, which they call Wifipicning (English version).
Paris is the third most WIFIed city in the world. More [...]