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Archive for December, 2005

WiMax Certification mid-January

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 22nd, 2005

Computerworld says product certifications from the WiMax Forum will be a little late. The first WiMax certified products are now expected in mid-January, said Mo Shakouri, board member and vice president of the WiMax Forum and chairman of its marketing working group. Testing may be completed by year’s end or the early part of [...]

WildBlue V-Sat

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 21st, 2005

Satellite internet provider WildBlue Communications announced today that it is entering the Enterprise Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Market. The company will begin offering enterprise class high speed, two-way wireless satellite-delivered products and services at compelling price points to small and medium enterprises and specialized industries, such as retail, financial, telemedicine, energy, remote monitoring, federal, [...]

Wi-Fi Positioning Moves

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 20th, 2005

Intel is investing in Wi-Fi positioning system Skyhook wireless, reports Telephony Magazine. Intel is joining the company’s first $6.5 million funding round adding to the $1.8 million seed funding the company received in 2003. Skyhook’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) is an indoor-outdoor positioning system that utilizes Wi-Fi rather than GPS or cell towers [...]

End of TV: February 2009

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 20th, 2005

Lee Wood’s HDTV Forum, USA Today and TG Daily say Feb. 17, 2009, is the drop dead date for the national conversion to digital TV — ending the more than 60-year era of analog broadcasts and potentially making millions of analog TV sets obsolete. The DTV Bill now heads to President’s [...]

Minneapolis: Down to Two

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 20th, 2005

Minneapolis has narrowed their selection of who will operate a city cloud to either Earthlink or US Internet, reports the Star Tribune . DailyWireless reported this back in October and not much has changed.
The 50 square mile network would contain more than 1,000 interconnected Wi-Fi hot spots. City residents would pay [...]

Theaters Go 3-D

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 19th, 2005

The National Association of Theater Owners has announced plans to petition the FCC for permission to jam cell phones to “block rude behaviour” – just as the French have already done. The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), a Washington-based cell phone lobby group, is protesting the action saying it would fight any move to [...]

Year in Review

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 19th, 2005

It was a big year for Wireless. So here’s The Year In Review.
DailyWireless has posted more than 5000 stories since we started back in March 2002. We looked through our 2005 story archive and picked the ones we thought were notable. What other stories should be added?

Wavesat Shipping WiMax Chips (Dec 04)
AT&T [...]

WiBro Wins Venezuela & Brazil

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 19th, 2005

Samsung will supply a Venezuelan mobile service provider with “WiBro” network equipment and operational know-how for mobile WiMAX services.
The agreement means Samsung, South Korea’s leading handset provider, is capable of commercializing the fledgling high-speed Internet broadband technology called “WiBro” overseas says CommsDesign.
Samsung said in a statement that the agreement with Omnivision C.A., [...]

Scottish Mesh

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 19th, 2005

Speednet Scotland is using LocustWorld Wireless Mesh to deliver broadband internet around the ancient Scottish town of Troon to 150 customers. Speednet uses just three LocustWorld meshboxes to provide connectivity, access control and network management as a self-contained system for wireless internet services.
As a local company with low overheads, Speednet are well known in [...]

WinTV to PSP

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 19th, 2005

Hauppauge announced the release of its new “Wing” software, enabling consumers to record TV shows on a personal computer for playback on the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP), Apple video iPod, and other portable video players. Wing can also be used to convert existing TV recordings to the PSP and iPod format.
Wing is sold as a [...]