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 [...]
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 [...]
“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, [...]
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 [...]
If anyone can claim to be the “father” of community LANs, it might be Matt Peterson who founded Bay Area Wireless Users Group after his first wireless adventure, PlayaNET (an internal network for the annual Burning Man event back in 2001). Matt Peterson, Rob Flickenger and others built the foundation of what was to become [...]
Smart Valley, an initiative of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network (JVSVN), the San Mateo County Telecommunications Authority (SAMCAT), and Intel today announced the signing of an agreement to develop a Request for Proposal to design a high-speed wireless data network that will cover all of Silicon Valley. The Smart Valley initiative envisions a broadband canopy [...]
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