It was a landmark year for wireless communications. Here are some year end wraps from around the web and our own highlights. Predictions and dubious achievements to follow.
ABC News: Technology Trends of 2006,
BBC News: Broadband Highlights in 2005
Businessweek: Tech Predictions for 2006
C/Net: 2005 Highlights, Year In Review
Cyberjournalist: Top online stories of 2005
EE Times: Top 10 [...]
The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said today the reallocating 45 MHz of government spectrum earmarked for 3G would cost $936 million. The FCC hopes to auction off the new bands for 3G phones this summer, harmonizing a dedicated “3G” band with other countries. The NTIA claims this new band will provide [...]
The Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro explains what the new video IPod has to offer. Here’s more help on Getting video onto your iPod, iPod Photocasting, DVD to iPod - Conversion (Mac), and PSP Conversion. StaxRip, a free open source application, claims to convert DVD’s, DVB or DV captures to x264, AAC, XviD, AC3, MP3, AVI, [...]
Liz Dubelman joins the NSA. The NY Times has more.
Here’s Christmas on the 10th floor of Meier & Frank, a Multimedia Slide Show By Rob Finch of The Oregonian. The Amazon Web Services Blog (podcast) has the tools to construct your own mall.
Act One:
After he goes to Jerusalem and sleeps on what is supposedly the very [...]
Dear Santa,
Remember me? The kid you brought a red Schwinn bike in 1959? I’m back with a new Christmas list.
Hey, I know I’m a little old for this, but when you get to be my age it’s mostly ties and sweaters from everybody else, and I really, really need [...]
San Francisco’s RFP is now available for downloading here (pdf). The proposal seeks to provide a universal, affordable, wireless broadband network throughout the City and County of San Francisco. Responses are due Feb. 21, 2006.
San Francisco’s 49 square mile “cloud” is expected to cost $10 million to $18 million, similar to Philadelphia’s 135-square-mile cloud, [...]
Electronic Arts couldn’t beat Jamdat, so last week it made the largest acquisition in its history, paying $680 million for the Los Angeles-based game maker (pdf), reports Business 2.0. The deal gives EA, the world’s largest publisher of PC and console videogames, a lead in the burgeoning $2.6 billion market for cell-phone videogames.
EA and JAMDAT [...]
The Free Ride Data Acquisition Vehicle (Frida V) is a bicycle equipped for efficient exploration and mapping of public urban spaces.
It carries a small computer, GPS positioning device, 802.11 wireless network transciever and a basic audiovisual recording unit.
The consolidated software and hardware assembly enables automated mapping of stumbled wireless networks, easy creation of location-tagged media [...]
The FCC told Congress that it plans to begin examining whether some of the 24 megahertz of 700 Mhz spectrum could be used for a nationwide interoperable broadband network.
“Emergency-response providers would benefit from the development of an integrated interoperable nationwide network capable of delivering broadband services throughout the country,” the agency said.
A group representing public-safety [...]
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