NVIDIA announced today they are working with Hybrid Graphics to deliver native-accelerated 3D API for mobile phones.
Hybrid’s optimized OpenGL ES drivers for the NVIDIA GoForce family of graphics processing units (GPUs) is said to provide developers with an optimized 3D graphics platform. OpenGL ES 3D graphics are available on QUALCOMM’s BREW [...]
Last night at Portland’s PersonalTelco Meeting, Tom Higgins (no relation to Tim Higgins), demonstrated the open source Our Tunes project. It puts podcasts and music on PTP hotspots. The open source software is hosted locally so music and podcasts can be downloaded — fast and free.
Wow!
In related news, LinksysInfo has more on the WRTSL54GS Wireless-G [...]
Stefhan Caddick’s “Storyboard” provides an opportunity for members of the public to post messages to a mobile Variable Message Sign using a mobile phone.
You can post a message by sending a text message. Messages are limited to 144 characters in length.
The intention for the project is to encourage members of the public to [...]
SBC will change its name to AT&T after completing its $16 billion purchase of that company reports Light Reading. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has cleared the merger of the two companies. Reviews are pending with the FCC and the states of Arizona, California and Ohio.
The FCC seems likely to rubber [...]
Broadband Reports says the US government may buy Nextel’s iDEN network and use it for national security communications. It would put federal agencies, the military, and local authorities on the same encrypted network.
In exchange for the iDEN network, Sprint may get to reclaim spectrum in the 700 and 800 [...]
Business 2.0 has an article on the growth of broadband.
With a raft of new Wi-Fi-hungry devices arriving for the holiday season, consumers could soon face a domestic broadband bottleneck. Fortunately, lots of new companies are lining up to ease the congestion…
According to research firm Diffusion Group, the [...]
The WiMAX Forum today announced it will hold a second “Plugfest,” from Oct. 30 to Nov. 6, 2005, in Beijing. This interoperability showcase, co-sponsored by Cetecom, ETSI and CATR, represents another step as the industry progresses toward Certification, which will commence for fixed network systems at the end of this year.
“Compared [...]
Steve Wozniak, the 55-year-old co-founder of Apple Computer, is joining the advisory board of VeriLAN, the Portland-based wireless ISP that is bidding on Portland’s wireless cloud. The advisory capacity frees Wozniak from the finacial responsibilities that boards of directors have, but allows him to guide VeriLAN on their national push for [...]
Qwest will roll out WiMAX broadband service next year and a nationwide consumer VoIP service, according to CTO Balan Nair.
Qwest currently offers consumer VoIP in select cities in its 14-state territory. Next year’s nationwide expansion will mirror what the carrier currently offers businesses with its OneFlex hosted and Integrated Access services.
For WiMAX, [...]
Unstrung says Cisco will launch a wireless mesh product next month.
As Unstrung reported back in April, Cisco has been plotting a mesh launch since it acquired wireless LAN switch startup Airespace for $450 million in December. The startup had originally been planning to launch a two-radio mesh box in March [...]
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