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Archive for December, 2005

True Crime

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 14th, 2005

True Crime: New York City was released last month by Activision and is set in Manhattan. While it is not the first game to take place in a real-world location (or even in New York), True Crime: New York City’s attempt to accurately re-create an existing place is unprecedented in scope and ambition says The [...]

Kevin Martin: No Problemo AT&T

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 14th, 2005

Broadband Reports says it best:
FCC Chief: Net Neutrali-wha?
There is no need for the FCC to adopt rules protecting consumers’ ability to use whatever IP services they see fit, FCC chief Kevin Martin said today.
“I’m hesitant to adopt rules that would prevent anti-competitive behavior where there hasn’t been significant evidence [...]

Global Satellite Providers Now Three

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 14th, 2005

SES Global, the world’s largest operator of satellites, has agreed to buy rival New Skies Satellites for $760 million in cash to boost its presence in Latin America and the Indian Ocean region.
SES Global said on Wednesday it would pay $22.52 per share, or $760 million, for New Skies and refinance the company’s estimated $400 [...]

$100 Laptop Contract to Quanta

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 14th, 2005

Taiwanese device maker Quanta Computer has been selected to design and build the $100 computers for MIT’s’s One Laptop per Child initiative.
The OLPC’s Board said it selected Quanta in part because the computer maker, which builds some PCs sold by Hewlett-Packard Co., promised to devote “significant engineering resources” to the project. Under the [...]

Intel’s New Mobile Platform

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 14th, 2005

Intel says their next mobile processor and chipset, the Napa platform, will boost average performance 68 percent beyond that of its current Sonoma platform, while reducing power consumption an average of 28 percent, extending battery life to around 5-hours. Built on Intel’s new 65 nanometer technology, it is expected that Napa machines will run at [...]

Active RFID

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 14th, 2005

AeroScout, a leader in the field of Wi-Fi based Active RFID solutions, today announced that it has joined Nissan Motors, Tokyu Security Co., and TRENDY Corporation to provide a Wi-Fi-based location tracking solution for child safety.
The new service uses standard Cisco Wi-Fi access points to accurately locate children wearing AeroScout tags during their walk to [...]

EarthLink Buys New Edge Networks

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 13th, 2005

EarthLink today announced it is acquiring Vancouver, Washington New Edge Networks, a CLEC known for its small to mid-sized enterprise (SME) data services.
EarthLink will pay approximately $144 million for New Edge, reports Telephony. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2006.
The move is part of EarthLink’s plan to become [...]

Cellular Movies

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 13th, 2005

Sprint and MSpot today announced the premier of MSpot Movies, the first mobile entertainment service to stream full-length feature films to mobile phones.
The movie service will come in two forms, a lower-bandwidth, lower-frame-rate service for Vision customers on Sprint’s CDMA 1X vision service and a high-frame-rate, better-quality stream for 3G customers on [...]

NYC Cloud Proposed

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 13th, 2005

New York City’s Next Big Thing…may be many little things (theme).
On Monday, New York city council member Gale Brewer, chairwoman of the committee on Technology in Government, held a legislative hearing on a proposed bill that would create a special commission to advise NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city council on how the city [...]

PCWorld: WiFi Gear No Good

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 13th, 2005

PC World says the current generation of WiFi devices just aren’t very good. They’re unreliable and hard to use among other things.
Participants in this year’s survey told us that none of the major brands of wireless gateways stood out on any measure of reliability. Netgear, which topped the chart last year, [...]