Municipal WiFi efforts are unlikely to survive, says John Dvorak.
Every few months we seem to hear about another initiative by a U.S. city to deploy free wireless Internet access.
The latest entry, New Orleans, is still struggling just to get the lights back on, months after Hurricane Katrina caused massive flooding, destruction [...]
Hewlett-Packard announced today a new software product and a multimedia service to help carriers provide “triple-play” services of voice, video and data. Pricing wasn’t immediately available.
The software-based media server, the HP OpenCall Media Platform Media Resource Function (MRF), is designed to support advanced multimedia and interactive services in Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks. IMS [...]
Dean Vernon Wormer: “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
Making money: It’s the reason commercial TV broadcasters exist, explains Television Broadcast Magazine.
DTV multicasts can be akin to getting a second or even a third broadcast license (or more when there’s no HDTV programming). However, they [...]
Intel, the bastion of WiMax hype, announced today that it is partnering with movie, music, and game providers around the world to introduce its Viiv technology for home media centers.
Viiv-enabled PC’s, which won’t be out until next year, let consumers download content from the Internet. Movielink, the movie download service, and British Sky Broadcasting [...]
Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) announced the successful demonstration of IP-based video-on-demand application at the Wireless Broadband Forum in Cambridge, UK. The solution combined FME’s AXEL-F, ETHOS and WiMAX devices to deliver a high-resolution video-stream from a server across optical and wireless networks to an end user.
The demonstration network was developed to comply fully with the [...]
Skyhook Wireless today announced that it has expanded its network roll-out to now include uninterrupted coverage in the 70 largest U.S. metropolitan areas.
Skyhook is promoting the use of their Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), a wide-area positioning system leveraging Wi-Fi, rather than satellite or cell tower-based technologies. The Skyhook Wireless works using a database of over [...]
Russell Beattie talks about the new firmware for Sony’s Playstation Portable. He likes it.
Sony just released a new firmware update v2.6 for the PSP with RSS(!) and Windows Music support. I’m downloading it to try now, but I think this is a pretty cool update. I have to say, besides [...]
Pat Schroeder, the former Colorado congresswoman who’s now the head of the Association of American Publishers, sits in her office on lower Fifth Avenue, reminiscing with me about the last time her industry tangled with technologists.
“Back in the nineties, we had all these kids in [...]
C/Net has the intriguing story of a device that uses Ultrasound to scare away … teenagers!
Though he did not know it at the time, the idea came to Howard Stapleton when he was 12 and visiting a factory with his father, a manufacturing executive in London.
Opening the [...]
Linksys is shipping its new MIMO router, the WRT54GX4, with Airgo chips.
Linksys said the WRT54GX4 router and WPC54GX4 PC card will retail for $149.99 and $99.99, respectively, and will arrive on retailers’ shelves within the next several weeks. The products are already available [...]
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