For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are TIME’s Persons of the Year
Pre-WiMax provider Clearwire, which operates wireless broadband networks in 24 U.S. cities, is now offerng service in the central Oregon communities of in Bend, Redmond, Sisters, Prineville and Madras reports The Bend Bulletin.
“When we made a list for target markets, we focused on three points: economic growth, stability in growth and early [...]
Along with the Howard Stern Show, SETI@Home is going off the air this week. The grid supercomputer project for detecting signs of extra terrestrial life from deep space, officially ended Dec. 15th.
“We’ll be shutting down the “SETI@home Classic” project on December 15,” read an e-mail sent by SETI@Home administrators at the University of [...]
Josh Bancroft of Tinyscreenfuls.com has a great talk on Podcasting from Mobile Devices (mp3) at the recent IT Conversations conference called Podcast Academy.
You can download the MP3 file directly (16MB, 35 minutes), or subscribe to the TinyPodcast feed in your favorite podcast aggregator (iTunes, Juice, etc.).
His How [...]
Microsoft’s online gaming service, Xbox Live, may soon be able to send instant messages via MSN Messenger to cell phones says the BBC. It is part of Microsoft’s strategy to connect its various online services.
Messenger is included as part of a compact version of Windows for mobile phones.
Around 18% of smartphones and PDas [...]
Time Warner has agreed to sell a 5 percent stake in America Online to Google for $1 billion as part of an expanded partnership between AOL, once the dominant company on the Internet, and Google, reports The New York Times.
While the deal terms are largely set, it will not be final until it is ratified [...]
Vivato, the revolutionary (and expensive) WiFi phased array antenna company, has ceased operations according to Wifinetnews. Unstrung said the buzz on the street was a Dec. 20 halt. Vivato was the first company to integrate a phased array antenna in the WiFi band with their centrally-managed “wireless LAN switch”. Steve Stroh provides [...]
Om Malik has news on the San Francisco Cloud via webnetic.net
Of the 26 responses received by the city of San Francisco for its proposed wireless network, the choice has narrowed down to five:
Earthlink
Google
Hewlett-Packard
MetroFi and
Skytel/MCI
It is interesting to see Skytel/MCI, a company that is essentially owned by Verizon in the [...]
Google will open an office in Pittsburgh says searchenginewatch.
Work at Google Pittsburgh will focus on engineering, research and development and will be the working home to about 100 people. No specific dates were provided by Google and a location of the office is still being decided.
Dr. Andrew Moore from Carnegie Mellon has [...]
Chaska.net, a broadband wireless mesh network in Minnesota, powered by Tropos MetroMesh gear, has added Ellacoya’s software to gain granular visibility into application and subscriber usage, and manage traffic to ensure fair usage on its network (pdf).
“We were challenged with bandwidth-intensive application usage on the network by a small percentage of subscribers, as [...]
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