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Archive for September, 2005

Specs on $100 Laptop

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 28th, 2005

C/Net says the $100 laptop has moved one step closer to reality.
Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of the Media Lab at MIT, detailed specifications for a $100 windup-powered laptop targeted at children in developing nations.
Negroponte is in discussions with five countries–Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa–to distribute up to 15 million test systems to [...]

Cerf Joins First Mile

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 28th, 2005

Vint Cerf, Google’s idea man, has joined the board of directors of First Mile, a Broadband Everywhere non-profit. He joins other heavy hitters Jim Baller, Dewayne Hendricks, Steve Corbat , Susan Estrada and Lynn St.Amour to supervise the activities and affairs of the non-profit.
Cerf, now the Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, is widely [...]

D-Link Camera Plays on Cellphone

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 27th, 2005

D-Link today announced a wireless Internet Camera with 3G compatibility so users can view live video streams from a 3G cell phone.
D-Link’s Internet Camera attaches to a home or small office network via a wired or wireless 802.11g/b connection and provides a convenient way to remotely monitor a home or office in real time from [...]

Inmarsat Plans Domestic Satphone

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 27th, 2005

Global satellite communications provider Inmarsat announced today that it has filed a petition with the FCC seeking authorization to provide Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) by 2010 using a spacecraft that will operate in the 2 GHz band. Globalstar and Iridium currently provide satellite phone service in the United States, but without [...]

Sprint: Go with the FLO?

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 27th, 2005

USA Today explains that three guys in Berkeley came up with a crazy notion back in 2003 — MobiTV. It proved that (some) cellphones were powerful enough to display television images. It wasn’t great TV, but it moved…at a frame or two a second.
In November 2003, Sprint became the first wireless carrier to [...]

Handheld Tablets

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 27th, 2005

The ackwardly named OQO 01+ is an update to OQO’s hand-held Windows XP PDA.
The OQO, which was delayed for years, finally began shipping last year. The fully-functional Windows XP computer features a 1GHz Transmeta processor, a 30GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM, a color transflective display, WiFi, as well as FireWire and USB ports.
Portability has [...]

Belair + PacketHop

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 27th, 2005

BelAir Networks today announced a partnership with PacketHop to provide solutions for police, fire, emergency services and other first responder agencies.
It’s designed to allow first responders to communicate using wireless-enabled laptops, tablets and PDAs.
BelAir metro WiFi gear is often used in “hot zones”; the single radio BelAir 50c, the dual-radio BelAir100 and the [...]

Global Wireless Marketplace

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 27th, 2005

The worldwide number of cellular subscribers will surpass 2 billion in 2005, reports a market research report by Computer Industry Almanac. That’s up from 11M in 1990 and 750M in 2000.
China, the clear leader in cellular subscribers, will reach nearly 400M at year-end 2005 - that’s nearly [...]

Unwired Portland Meetup

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 26th, 2005

Unwired Portland held its mandatory meeting for bidders today. About 200 people filled the meeting room, including potential bidders, vendors and the curious.
The project leaders; Rashid Ahmed — Sr. Project Coordinator, Portland Development Commission, Matt Lampe — Chief Technology Officer, City of Portland, and Kevin [...]

Wireless IT: Cloud Content

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 26th, 2005

Is this a busy week for conferences, or what? The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) opens their Wireless IT & Entertainment 2005 this week in San Francisco. It’s two conferences in one.
The fall convention, focuses on integrating wireless technologies into the enterprise and vertical business markets such as healthcare, government, automotive, retail [...]