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Archive for September, 2005

Is Google Evil?

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 20th, 2005

Henry Beige: I’m gonna give you a rule of thumb. You foller it and you just might hold on to this ranch of yours. All large-scale crime is an inside job. Takin’ fingerprints and sendin’ trash off to the lab just don’t get her done. If you’re dealin’ with people, you gotta be [...]

Cognitive Radio at Virginia Tech

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 20th, 2005

Virginia Tech hopes to smarten up experimental cognitive radios so that ad hoc communications networks can adapt to aid in disaster relief and battlefield communications, reports EE Times
By sharing a distributed knowledge base, Virginia Tech’s “cognitive engine” will serve as the communication system’s “brain” by sensing unused bandwidth, avoiding interference, adapting to changing circumstances and [...]

picoChip NextGen

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 20th, 2005

picoChip and ARM today announced that picoChip’s next generation picoArray will incorporate the ARM 926EJ-S processor to create the first single-chip, software-defined solution for WiMax and W-CDMA.
Combining ARM processor technology and picoChip’s fully-programmable signal processing array in a 90nm device significantly reduces the cost of WiMAX deployment without compromising the flexibility essential for standards [...]

Windows Mobile 5 Devices

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 20th, 2005

PocketNow, PC Mag, Engadget, , InfoSynch and Uber Gizmo report Dell is offering their all-new Axim X51v for $499.00.
The Windows Mobile 5 device features an Intel XScale PXA270 624MHz processor, a crisp VGA display, Bluetooth 1.2, WiFi, VPN support, and CF/SD slots. It offers good expandability options, dual wireless and generous amounts of memory.
Owners [...]

McCain: Broadcasters Squatting on 700Mhz

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 20th, 2005

Broadcast Engineering reports that Senator John McCain angrily charged last week that television broadcasters were blocking access to spectrum for first (emergency) responders.
The senator called on Congress to move up by two years the consensus date that broadcasters must give back the extra spectrum they were given for the transition to [...]

Fall VON Announcements

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 20th, 2005

The Fall Voice Over Internet (VON) show, September 19-22 in Boston has a packed Schedule, Exhibitor List, Speakers and a ton of Press Releases.
There’s so much news coming out of this show, we scarely know where to begin.
Here are a few headlines:

AOL is announcing the impending availability of its new TotalTalk VoIP service. AOL’s TotalTalk [...]

TeleCIS Road Show

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 20th, 2005

TeleCIS Wireless, a leading developer of multi-protocol wireless broadband chips, today announced the deployment of a “triple play” WiMAX demonstration network on top of their office building in Santa Clara, California.
TeleCIS says their standards-based (802.16-2004) WiMAX chip design will enable service providers to achieve a profitable business model with non-line of sight deployment and “self-installed” [...]

Google WiFi

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 20th, 2005

Om Malik was right.
Google plans to launch a Wi-Fi service according to C/Net, Google Rumors, Inside Google, Search Engine Watch and the Washington Post.

Starting in the San Francisco Bay Area wifi.google.com users will be able to connect freely to Wi-Fi hotspots provided by Google - with increased security, according to the company’s FAQ.
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Talk Like A Pirate

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 19th, 2005

TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY
Words and Music Copyright 2003 by Tom Smith
Most days are like all of the others,
Go to work, come back home, watch TV,
But, brother, if I had me druthers,
I’d chuck it and head out to sea,
For I dream of the skull and the crossbones,
I dream of the great day to [...]

GoogleNet Moonshot

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 19th, 2005

Om Malik reports that Google is reviewing bids from tech vendors to build a nationwide optical DWDM network.
The vendors who have seen Google s fiber network RFP say that the nature of the network can really only mean that Google ultimately hopes to push massive amounts of voice, video and data close to the end [...]