Qualcomm has a new chip that can work with three different mobile TV systems. The Universal Broadcast Modem (UBM) can receive signals using Qualcomm’s FLO standard, as well as DVB-H and ISDB-T. The chip will allow manufacturers to make a single handset that can be customized by carriers around the globe for whichever TV standard [...]
SkyPilot Networks, a provider of wireless mesh gear for “city clouds” such as Portland’s, today announced it has been selected by NuTel Broadband, a broadband wireless managed services provider based in Cranbury, NJ, to provide the equipment for Wi-Fi mesh networks that will be built out across more than 200 “Tier 2-5″ domestic markets. NuTel [...]
Here’s an overdue product — a USB WiFi client with an antenna connector. WIFI-Link’s USB adapter (WL-USB-RSMAP) has a female reverse polarity (RP) SMA connector so you can choose from a huge variety of WiFi antennas (in addition to the one that comes with it). The MSRP of $49.50 is reasonable. In quantities of 100, [...]
The Web’s free and wireless in Hood River, reports the Oregonian. Embarq, which was the local phone division of Sprint Nextel until it was spun off last week, has built a free Wi-Fi network covering Hood River’s three square miles. The newly independent company is experimenting with wireless Internet access and has made Hood River [...]
The 2006 Submarine Ring of Fire expedition on the research vessel Melville is the third in a series of explorative expeditions to the submarine volcanoes of the Mariana Arc. Some 90% of the world’s earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. Bob Embley gives us a short video briefing of this adventure. The volcano, called [...]
Municipal wireless networks are now being built or planned in hundreds of cities. But what will be “on” it? The hardware infrastructure must come first, but it’s software that does the real work. Cellular, WiFi and hard-wired networks are now becoming testbeds of groupware. Navigation, social networking, location-based advertising, community service, games and other applications [...]
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