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Archive for November, 2005

PSP Rev 2.6 Does RSS

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 29th, 2005

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 Sony’s insistence on hammering [...]

News War

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 29th, 2005

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 black T-shirts who came and told us, ‘You guys [...]

Ultrasonic Teen Repeller

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 29th, 2005

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 door to a room where workers [...]

Linksys WRT54GX4 MIMO

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 29th, 2005

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 online from the company’s e-commerce partners. Linksys claims it offers up [...]

Nokia Adds WiFi to 9300

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 29th, 2005

The Nokia 9300i will incorporate WiFi with a full keyboard, 65,536-color screen, support for a broad range of enterprise email solutions and an attachment viewer, reports the company. For voice and data communications, the 9300i smartphone will be able to run on Cingular’s EDGE network The 80 MB of memory capacity (expandable up to 2GB [...]

Mesh: Are Two Links Better than One?

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 28th, 2005

John Cox, who writes a great column at Network World, asks the question that seems to be on everyone’s mind lately; “are two radios better than one for mesh?” Those benefits [of mesh] are persuading a variety of customers to adopt mesh topologies: police and fire departments; campuses; construction companies; utilities; and, increasingly, local governments [...]