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Archive for January, 2006

WiMax Breakout

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 12th, 2006

I know there’s a pot of gold for me
All I got to do is just believe
Whoo oooh, I’m on fire
- Neutron Dance
Unstrung reports the first vendors to get an official WiMax badge are expected to be announced next week at the International Symposium of the Wireless Communications Association International (WCA).

The successful certification of equipment [...]

VoiceBox

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 12th, 2006

VoiceBox is said to offer the world’s first conversational voice search and navigation platform that enables users to access information from any mobile device over any IP network without memorizing specific commands or navigating through tedious menus. The VoiceBox Navigator Platform is offered to the automotive, digital home, mobile phone, and VoIP markets.
They announced at [...]

Google Talk for BlackBerry

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 12th, 2006

Google Talk, the instant messaging service, will be available to BlackBerry users later this year.
It appears that BlackBerry will only support Google Talk’s instant messaging . The version of Google Talk that will be made available to BlackBerry users will not have a voice capability. To offer a fully functional version of Google Talk would [...]

picoChip & ArrayComm

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 12th, 2006

picoChip and ArrayComm announced today that they have forged an alliance, under which ArrayComm’s Network MIMO software will be incorporated into the PHY of picoChip’s flexible wireless solution. picoChip will offer this solution as a software option to its customers to add smart antennas and MIMO to their advanced WiMAX base station and subscriber station [...]

The Open Horse Project

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 11th, 2006

I fell asleep last night listening to This Week In Tech. This morning, I woke up with a dream. The Open Horse Project. It would “unwire” a live horse and provide a radiological/biometric window into a live animal.

The goal of the “Open Horse” project would be to develop a variety of sensors for medical applications. [...]

High Speed WiFi: Coming Soon?

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 11th, 2006

C/Net reports that the long-awaited IEEE 802.11n specification may get finalized and approved this week at the IEEE meetup in Hawaii. The 802.11n standard is expected to result in standardized and interoperable 100-300 Mbps WiFi clients and access points.
The joint proposal is expected to be submitted for a vote during the IEEE meeting next week [...]

WiMax VOD?

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 10th, 2006

Oxford Media has designed a Video-On-Demand and Pay-Per-View entertainment system for hotels, that will use a WiMax wireless network for delivery. The content will be sent in MPEG 4 which will allow for faster downloads and interactivity. Commercial deployment could begin as early as late 2006.
The Oxford wireless Private Broadband Network (PBN) will broadcast [...]

Cable Gets Meshed

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 10th, 2006

Here’s a packet of Mesh news:

Firetide announced a deal today with EDX Wireless to “provide customers with full featured software tools for planning and deploying municipal wireless mesh networks.” The EDX SignalMX software will now show data for Firetide HotPort mesh nodes. EDX is also a Tropos partner.
BelAir Networks, the wireless mesh provider, today announced [...]

Extraterrestrials Land Sunday

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 10th, 2006

If all goes well Sunday, a 100-pound space capsule called Stardust will come screaming into the atmosphere at nearly 29,000 mph, faster than any human-made object to date and land on the Utah desert (maps and videos) at 5:12 a.m. EST (1012 GMT) on Jan. 15, 2006.

Within the spacecraft’s sample container are pieces of Comet [...]

West Coast Cellular Outage

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 10th, 2006

Millions of wireless and wireline Sprint phone customers were without service for four hours Monday afternoon after the company’s network went down in several states, according to a Sprint spokeswoman.
The “dual” fiber cut prevented the network from simply re-routing traffic around a self-healing ring, as routinely occurs in today’s public-switched telephone network, reports Telephony Magazine. [...]