Boston will tap a nonprofit corporation to provide their city-wide WiFi Cloud, reports The Boston Globe. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino unveiled the plan (pdf), hatched by the Mayor’s Task Force on Wireless in Boston. Boston is proposing a wholesale network, built by the city and sold to retailers who will deliver a variety [...]
Advanced Micro Device announced nationwide availability of the Telmex Internet Box Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) for citizens across Mexico.
Available from AMD since October 2004, The Telmex Internet Box provides Internet hardware, software, Internet service and support. It is available for purchase in Telmex shops all over Mexico and contains the PIC, a monitor, [...]
Katie Fehrenbacher at GigOm says:
The FCC just released a list of 168 qualified bidders for the AWS spectrum auction coming up on August 9th, and also announced that the process will not involve the controversial blind bidding. We’ve been following the companies interested in bidding pretty closely, and there were a few surprises [...]
Ruckus Wireless today announced the commercial availability of a wireless bridge for connection to city-wide Wi-Fi networks.
The Ruckus MetroFlex is an 802.11b/g wireless access gateway that uses the company’s “smart” antenna array technology. Four horizontally and two vertically polarized arrays connect through a high-power amplifier. The integrated smart-MIMO antenna technology can “beam” a signal dynamically, [...]
Dianah Neff will leave her Philadelphia job overseeing Wireless Philadelphia, and return to a private-sector job in early fall, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer and Om Malik.
News of her pending departure began circulating inside City Hall on Friday. An official announcement could come this week.
Neff’s deputy, Terry Phillis, is being [...]
As many as 25,000 people will gather in Boston over the next five days for the ACM’s annual SIGGRAPH conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques.
There will be live acts, including a performance by a robotic percussionist, a computer animation festival, and a fashion show along with Panels, Keynotes, Exhibitors and Emerging [...]
PhotoSynth is a 3-D image “tourism” application being developed by Microsoft Research. Channel 9 has a preview of the application which can “map” public 2D images (like Flickr) to 3D space (like Second Life). Here’s a Live Demo and White Paper (pdf).
It’s a product in development and not ready for general consumption, [...]
New Zealand’s Woosh Wireless has secured rights for broadcasting spectrum from Sky TV, New Zealand’s main pay-tv operator, to enable it to provide “internet television”. Woosh has acquired WiMAX spectrum over the past two years and plans to deliver a range of wireless services.
Woosh has faced many challenges - it has chalked up losses of [...]
A Russian rocket launched Friday carried South Korea’s Arirang-2 satellite into orbit. Officials said Friday that Arirang-2 had successfully separated from the rocket and deployed its solar panels.
The satellite will be used for disaster monitoring, mapping, resource probing and providing images for geographic information systems. The multi-spectral [...]
Nokia said Thursday that it had begun a two-month trial of UMA technology in the city of Oulu in west central Finland. The company has recruited 50 families who will test out the technology using the Nokia 6136, a Wi-Fi-equipped phone. The device is one of the first by the company to support [...]
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