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Archive for May, 2005

Nanotech Wireless

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 25th, 2005

At the Nanobusiness conference in New York yesterday, (May 24), Bell Laboratories President Jeff Jaffe predicted that nanoscience could make ubiquitous communications a transformational technology on the order of the telephone and television. “Nanotechnologies applied to communications will transform other industries in a way that no other technology has done in the past”, [...]

FCC Approves Big Mobile Sat

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 25th, 2005

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced today that it received FCC authorization to launch and operate a next generation L Band satellite at the 101 Degrees W.L. orbit location. This authorization follows the April 5, 2005 Industry Canada authorization to MSV’s Canadian affiliate for an L band satellite at 107.3 Degrees W.L. [...]

London WiMax from Libera

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 25th, 2005

Unstrung reports that U.K. service provider Libera is gearing up for a London launch of WiMax amid plans to expand into Europe. Libera is providing 5.8GHz services aimed at the SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) market, and has already launched a commercial network in [...]

Nokia Tablet

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 25th, 2005

At the LinuxWorld summit in New York, Nokia today introduced its first device in a new Internet Tablet category, the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. The handheld Internet tablet is designed for accessing the Web around the home over a wireless broadband connection. The Internet Tablet is designed specifically [...]

Clearwire Likes E

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2005

ZDNet reports from the Future in Review conference (Blog) with a panel entitled “The Future of WiMax”. It began with Nicolas Kauser, President, Clearwire saying that the wireless technology is overhyped and overpromised.
The WiMax protocol 802.16d is used more for promotional purposes, [...]

More Revolution Specs?

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2005

Game Infowire seems to have found some additional specs (but not too much) on that oh so secretive Nintendo Revolution: Backward compatibility: The new console plays all games from the current Nintendo GameCubeTM generation. But there’s more… The secret weapon: The console also will have [...]

Wireless USB 1.0

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2005

At the Wireless USB Developers Conference in San Jose today, Alereon showed the first fully integrated demonstration of WUSB running at 480Mbps. It used a WUSB Media Access Controller (MAC) from Intel, and a WUSB physical layer (PHY) from Alereon running at the maximum speed for wireless USB. The day when [...]

IBM Opens Cell

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2005

According to an EE Times article and Slashdot, IBM is planning on releasing the full specifications and software libraries for the powerful processor that will be in the Playstation 3. The goal is to stimulate open-source development for other applications of the chip. The article doesn’t mention if there [...]

Hamvention

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2005

Oops, looks like we missed the annual Dayton Hamvention last weekend in Dayton Ohio. Of course we always do. But it doesn’t mean we don’t want to go. It’s like Oskosh for radio geeks. A mecca for radio heads. The Hamvention is huge and includes exhibits, a flea market [...]

Canterbury Tales

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 24th, 2005

A city wide WiMax trial (pdf) will be launched in Canterbury next month, ahead of an anticipated commercial launch in September, reports TechWorld. The trial, following on from a pilot that began in January, is a collaboration between Telabria and the University of Kent.

It [...]