Siemens (of Germany) and Nokia (of Finland) jointly announced today that they will merge their telecommunication network equipment businesses, reports the New York Times. The deal is valued at more than $30 billion.
The units in the 50-50 venture, “Nokia Siemens Networks”, had sales of 15.8 billion euros last year, which would make it [...]
Navini Networks is announcing the availability of its mobile WiMAX 16e software with smart beamforming. Customer shipments will start in December 2006, following Wave-1 certification.
“One of the features that differentiates it from existing standards such as 3G, is smart beamforming, an important ingredient to delivering personal broadband,” [...]
Handset makers Motorola, Samsung, NEC and Panasonic, as well as cellular operators Vodafone and NTT DoCoMo, will develop an open-source Linux-based operating system that could be used in mobile phones by the end of 2007. The independent not-for-profit group will share the costs and speed up mobile software development.
A ubiquitous mobile Linux platform could [...]
I Might Break Your Fingers, I’ll Never Break Your Heart. - Backstreet Boys
EE Times reports the IEEE’s Standards Board, in an unprecedented move, has temporarily suspended deliberations by the 802.20 working group (pdf) on mobile broadband wireless technology.
Steve Mills, Chairman of the IEEE Standards Association Board wrote (pdf)
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Portland, Oregon and Houston, Texas, are planning to cut costs by using city-wide WiFi “clouds” instead of cellular networks to connect “electronic parking meters”, reports GovTech Magazine.
One especially promising area is parking, where the wireless network movement is joining a new generation of high-tech meters to improve data gathering and increase revenue. [...]
C/Net’s Daniel Terdiman begin a two-week trek through the American Pacific Northwest this week. While it’s no epic Everest adventure or Kevin Sites Hot Zone, the adventure of Daniel Terdiman is much closer to home. Everyone can do it.
During my journey, which we’re calling “Road Trip 2006,” I’ll be searching for, reporting and [...]
In a pair of Senate hearings on Net Neutrality this week, lawmakers expressed concern about the possibility of unfair play on the Internet, but a seeming majority showed even greater concern about potential side-effects of premature regulation.
Sen. Joe Biden, the Democrat from Delaware, and Arlen Specter, the Republican from Pennsylvania, both indicated Wednesday that they [...]
Wall Street’s Walt Mossberg likes the wireless Gemlin music player. The new $299 Gremlin music player has built-in Wi-Fi, so it can download songs from an accompanying subscription service directly, without requiring the use of a personal computer or can transfer music from a PC to the device.
The Gremlin won’t work with some [...]
We Make Money Not Art has the story of The Yellow Chair.
Sit on it. Get WiFi free.
It’s iconic and practical. Like The Yellow Bike Project.
I still like my “Write Spot” idea. That would put hotspots inside giant yellow pencils.
Just paint an architectural drawing tube yellow and stick an access point inside. How much [...]
Polonix Corporation, today announced general availability of the world’s first WiMAX PCI card for Windows personal computers. The cards deliver direct access to WiMAX broadband wireless services.
“The e!MAX PCI card can plug-and-play with any PC running a Windows operating system, which means the ultimate promise of WiMAX, broadband for [...]
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