Olga Kharif of Business Week says a company called Radiospire Networks makes chips for in-home WiMax networks.
Their chips, essentially, allow users to stream high-definition TV channels onto the home PC, or the other way around. So this technology competes with Ultra-Wideband and Wi-Fi, also looking for a place within the home.
Some people in [...]
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
The Baltimore Sun reports the NSA spent six years and hundreds of millions of dollars trying to kick-start the Trailblazer datamining program, intended to help protect the United States against terrorism, that many experts say was doomed from the start.
The NSA initiative, which was designed to [...]
“I will bring the whole edifice down on their unworthy heads.”
- Richard Burton in The Medusa Touch
Congress will consider the question of net neutrality Feb. 7 in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, as it attempts to update telecommunications laws, last updated in 1996. Telco critics are trying to maintain the equal access [...]
Steve’s Digicam’s reviews the $500 Canon PowerShot SD430 Wireless camera with built-in 802.11b.
The point and shooter (specs) features a 3X zoom, SD cards, USB 2.0 Hi-Speed, and records 640×480 video at 30fps. The SD430 can be remotely operated wirelessly from a PC (Windows XP w/SP2 only).
Steve’s Digicam’s liked it (Engadet photo above)
I was very [...]
MetroFi, today announced it was dropping fees for wireless Internet access in Santa Clara and Cupertino, California. Now everything is free (with a banner ad).
The community LAN operator, which uses SkyPilot mesh gear, used to offer two choices; a $19.95/month, 1 Mbps wireless access service (without advertising), or a free 1 Mbps wireless access service [...]
The New York Times reports that Nicholas Negroponte, who unveiled the $100 laptop in association with the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child last year, signed a memorandum of understanding Saturday with the United Nations Development Program. The U.N. and OLPC will work together to develop the technology and learning resources.
The $100 laptop, currently only in [...]
The winners have been announced and the promotional tents have come down at Sundance 2006.
Intel showed off WiMAX network in Park City at Sundance and set up a wireless digital entertainment zone. Built in collaboration with Alvarion and Mountain Wireless, the network, covers 55 miles from Salt Lake City to Park City.
To showcase how the [...]
“It’s like the Roman Catholic church after Gutenberg.”
The sky may be falling on old media, but new media distribution - via satellite - is rising fast in Asia.Take, for example, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) which is finalizing the design of a mobile television satellite.
The mobile video service, some two years away, would [...]
Tom’s Networking checks out Netgear’s MIMO-based RangeMax 240 Wireless Router (WPNT834)
It uses Airgo Network’s third generation “True MIMO” chipset that boasts a top raw speed of 240Mbps. The new speed is achieved using Airgo’s Adaptive Channel Expansion technology (ACE) that the company says uses a “neighbor friendly” 40 MHz channel.
We found that the product’s maximum [...]
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