Nextel will deploy UMTS TD-CDMA technology from IPWireless, in Washington DC, the companies announced today. The field trial will begin during the third quarter in Washington, D.C.; Arlington, Va.; Alexandria, Va.; Reston, Va. and Bethesda, Md. “Nextel has conducted lab testing of the IPWireless technology, and this trial will allow us to test the [...]
Pakistan faced a complete Internet blackout last night after a technical fault developed in the country’s only submarine fibre-link – the South East Asia, Middle East and Western Europe-3 (SEAMEWE-3, Alcatel & map). The submarine cable appears to have been snapped about 50 km off Karachi say, officials of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd [...]
Siemens AG will launch a bevy of WiMax trials in Italy, reports Unstrung [how do they get these scoops]. The German incumbent use pre-WiMax in the 3.5GHz band. Trials will begin in July in North Italy, and will later spread South to the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. The cities of Arezzo, Milan, Parma, [...]
Nextel is enabling customers to store, share and print photos from their multimedia-messaging-enabled Nextel phones and other digital cameras. The capabilities are based on Fujifilm’s Get the Picture service. In addition to enhancing the Nextel PhotoShare site with greater image management tools, Fujifilm is providing an interactive phone application developed by Summus, [...]
Directions Magazine offers this opinion piece from Jerry Dobson Martha Stewart wears an ankle bracelet. Sprint announces a new “Business Mobility Framework” for employers to track employees. School officials in Sutter, California, order students to hang RFID tags around their necks; parents object and the principal backs down. Already, school children in Osaka, Japan, [...]
Wimbledon, amid grass courts, classic white and strawberries, is also a showcase for high tech gadgetry. This year is no exception. The ‘shot tracker’ is the latest wrinkle. It’s used by broadcasters to replay critical umpire calls and is available to all visitors at the Wimbledon Web site. It creates a three dimensional animated image [...]
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