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Archive for November, 2005

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 [...]

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, [...]

$100 Laptop Gets RedHat

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 28th, 2005

Ars Technica says MIT’s $100 Laptop will run Red Hat Linux.
The lime-green laptop, which uses a 500Mhz AMD processor and has 1GB Flash RAM instead of a hard drive, will only use open source software, despite an offer from Apple for it to use Apple’s OS-X operating system for free.

The [...]

New Orleans Gets Free Cloud

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 28th, 2005

Mayor C. Ray Nagin announced that The City of New Orleans will extend a wireless network throughout New Orleans. Most of the equipment was donated by three companies: Intel Corp., Tropos Networks and Pronto Networks.
The Boston Globe reports the city will deploy a municipally owned wireless Internet system that will be free for [...]

Cheap Space Access

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 28th, 2005

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that it has been selected by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design, develop and manufacture the next satellite in NASA’s New Millennium Program (NMP) technology demonstration spacecraft.
The satellite, Space Technology 8 (ST8), will be based on Orbital’s Microstar platform, a lightweight, multi-role spacecraft bus of which dozens [...]

PocketPC TV

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 28th, 2005

Engadet has the word (and photos) of LG’s newly announced PM80, a new Pocket PC featuring T-DMB (Terrestrial-Digital Multimedia Broadcasting). The terrestrial system is broadcast at 200 MHz (VHF) in South Korea and Europe. Korea also has a direct to handheld S-DMB mobile video system using satellites.
The PM80 features a [...]

TiVo + AdWords

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 28th, 2005

Om Malik, along with C/Net and CNN, report that TiVo is incorporating context-sensitive advertising via the key word search mechanism:

From Skip Ads, to Pop-Up Ads to now keyword specific ads…. TiVo is slowly becoming the new advertising platform, which is to say, new bottle old wine. Still if capitalism can thrive in China, then why [...]

LGMs: Virus Threat?

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 26th, 2005

According to the next issue of the scientific journal Acta Astronauticav by Richard Carrigan, planet Earth’s computers are wide open to a virus attack from Little Green Men.
The concern is raised in the a particle physicist at the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. He believes scientists [...]

The Vision Project

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 26th, 2005

“The blue moon jumps over the purple sky.” - Applied Minds voice key
The Vision Project, one of Portland Mayor Tom Potter’s key initiatives, was launched this week with the appointment of a 49 member Vision Committee. Members will spend the next year tapping the community’s aspirations and goals to map out a strategic plan for [...]

WiMax: Running Late?

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 26th, 2005

WiFi Planet fills us in on The Evolution of WiMax Certification (pdf) from Senza Fili’s Web site. It shows 5 waves of certification. The WiMax Forum, like the WiFi Alliance, is supposed to assure interoperablity from different vendors.

Monica Paolini, the president of Senza Fili and the paper’s author, says most of [...]