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Archive for July, 2005

WiMax = Hockey Stick

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 29th, 2005

  Wireless DesignLine reports the just-released “WiMAX and Outdoor Mesh Equipment” report, from Infonetics Research, predict revenues from WiMAX equipment sales reached $16.4 million last year, and will grow to $124.5 million in 2005.     While the technology is currently used primarily as a backhaul solution, Infonetics expects WiMAX to be an important moble [...]

More VoWiFi Phones

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 29th, 2005

  Tim Higgins reports that Zultys Technologies has announced their WIP 2 wireless IP phone. The wireless IP phone features voice encryption, paging, 3-way conferencing, instant messaging, and “all standard telephony functions”. Zultys says the phone has 4 hours of continuous talk time and 12 hours of standby time. The SIP-based WIP 2 is based [...]

Current TV Launches Monday

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 29th, 2005

  Billed as the “first national network created by, for and with an 18-to-34-year-old audience,” Al Gore’s Current TV will launch August 1st in 20 million homes. Programming is designed to show younger audiences what’s going on in their lives. It will do so in short bursts called “pods,” which will vary in length from [...]

Portland Cloud Workshop

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2005

  “We will unleash a level of creative innovation we can’t imagine”, enthused City Commissioner Sam Adams at Portland, Oregon’s Unwired Portland Workshop, Thursday evening. The Commissioner gave anecdotal examples of local businesses that may benefit from broadband wireless everywhere. But neither commission members nor the general public, could answer the big question; if they [...]

Duopoly Laws?

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2005

  Telephony Magazine says advocates of community broadband networks are already planning to fight some segments of Sen. John Ensign s telecom reform legislation and they may have an advocate in one of his co-sponsors. The Ensign/McCain Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act is strongly opposed by municiple wireless advocates because it tends to create [...]

Firefox on PPC

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2005

  Mozillazine has the latest on their new tiny browser, Minimo 007 On PPC. It may compete with the Microsoft’s Explorer for PPC (included with all Pocket PCs), Sony’s new PSP Browser and Mobile Opera, sometimes found on Nokia’s Symbian phones. Doug Turner has released Minimo 0.007 for mobile devices running Windows CE. This latest [...]