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Archive for August, 2005

Mesh Standards?

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 24th, 2005

With mesh networking on the front burner for “city clouds”, at least two groups are trying to hash out a single, interoperable mesh “standard”. They include the WiMesh Alliance (WiMA) with Philips, Thomson, InterDigital, Accton, Nortel, NextHop, InterDigital, Mitre, and others, and SEEMesh, which includes Intel, Nokia, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, and Texas [...]

PSP Firmware 2.0 Arrives

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 24th, 2005

The on again, off again Sony Playstation Portable firmware is on again. The 2.0 firmware upgrade was first going to be available on Aug. 12. Then, it slipped to the 15th. But it now is appearing on Sony’s web site so it must be real.

The main feature of this free upgrade, of course, is [...]

Camphones For Journalists

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 24th, 2005

The high resolution camphone should be standard issue for every reporter. But you just know your local daily won’t grab this wave until after it’s raised all boats and is headed back out to sea.
Infosyncworld has a collection of 2 Megapixel camphones handy for collecting audio, pictures and even video clips in the field.Sharp’s 3.2 [...]

Stratford-on-WiMax

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 24th, 2005

The Inquirer reports that UK Internet Service Provider Pipex is testing residential WiMax services using Airspan gear.
The pair have kicked off a six month trial of WiMax in Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of British bard- William Shakespeare. Significantly the partners will be testing two technologies - not only straight voice-over-WiMax [...]

Yahoo DSL: $14.95

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 24th, 2005

Yahoo! has announced a co-branded Internet service with Verizon Communications, reports Forbes, SF Chronicle and ZDNet.

Under terms of the deal, Yahoo! will be featured as the default portal for various DSL services offered by Verizon and the two companies will jointly market the co-branded product. The new service is priced at [...]

Top Secret Software Radios

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 24th, 2005

Harris Corporation, a leading supplier of software-defined tactical radios for defense, has received certification from the National Security Agency for its new multiband, multimission Falcon III Handheld tactical radio.
Along with this certification, the radio has received its official U.S. Government nomenclature: AN/PRC-152. The AN/PRC-152 utilizes the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Software Communications [...]

Google Talk

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 24th, 2005

Google’s new IM and voice-chat software, a combined instant messaging/net phone system dubbed “Google Talk“, officially launches today.
The Google Talk system unites net telephony with an instant messaging network and builds on the Gmail e-mail service that was released in March 2004.
According to the BBC, America Online has more than 40 million users on its [...]

Strix Satellite Mesh

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 23rd, 2005

World Communication Center, a provider of satellite voice and data communications and Strix Systems, a mesh networking system, are providing WiFi Internet access via satellite in remote environments in the contiguous United States.
WCC will Combining Strix self-configuring and self-healing mesh with a portable VSAT satellite terminal creates a WiFi connection that can [...]

Wireless Traffic Monitoring

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 23rd, 2005

Traffic.com signed an agreement with the Maryland State Highway Administration to construct a network of wireless roadside traffic sensors in Baltimore.
Once they are installed, the company will have sensor coverage from north of Baltimore to south of Washington, D.C..
The new sensors provide vehicle speed, congestion levels, and travel times to Traffic.com operations centers [...]

Motorola iTunes Phone

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 23rd, 2005

The FCC has given approval for Motorola to sell an iTunes phone (photos), report Mobile Burn, Podcasting News and TechNews.
The Motorola E790 can reportedly run a cell phone version of iTunes and will contain stereo speakers, removable flash memory and Bluetooth.

Apple and Motorola have been promising such a phone for more than [...]