The WiFi First Responder Pilot Project (pdf) is giving emergency personnel Internet access along the CANAMEX Corridor near Arizona’s southern border. The corridor follows three highways and spans 487 miles, long portions of which lack reliable cellular and landline service.
The project allows first responders to connect to the Internet from their vehicles across a 30-mile [...]
Now you can use Google Maps on your cellphone for live traffic information.
Google is today releasing a traffic information feature for Google Maps on mobile devices. A downloadable Java application, features live traffic updates and the ability to save favorite locations and driving directions.
Phone users will also be able to customize the content [...]
The $100 laptop is coming ever closer to launch, reports Arstechnica. Today, Taiwanese computer manufacturer Quanta Computer said that it will begin manufacturing the laptops for Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child initiative.
The technical specs on these new laptops include a 500MHz processor, 500MB of Flash memory, wireless broadband, and the capability to [...]
Ball Aerospace says their CloudSat and CALIPSO satellites, launched on April 28 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, have now been commissioned.
The two satellites are designed to improve our understanding of Earth’s weather, climate, and air quality by revealing 3-D details of clouds and the hidden characteristics of aerosols.
Ball Aerospace built the spacecraft bus [...]
Light Reading reports that U.K. cable giant NTL has unveiled its response to to “free” broadband offers from Freeview and BSkyB with a “free TV” plan of its own for new fixed-line customers.
NTL (Wikipedia) also has a package of all four major services — broadband, video, voice, and wireless — that allows customers to mix [...]
EarthLink today announced today it will use DragonWave’s AirPair for 24 GHz backhaul in their municipal wireless network deployments. EarthLink is currently building municipal wireless networks in Philadelphia, New Orleans, Anaheim and Milpitas, California using Motorola’s Canopy backhaul.
Motorola’s MOTOwi4 portfolio of wireless broadband solutions currently includes Canopy Fixed Broadband, Mesh, Broadband over Powerline, and WiMAX.
DragonWave [...]
O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention 2006 (OSCON) runs July 24-28, 2006, in Portland, Oregon. Hundreds of sessions, tutorials, activities, and events, are scheduled for this year’s OSCON. Here’s the Schedule.
This year’s conference is dedicated to extending the dialogue between the creative open source community and the “traditional” software development industry.
More than 2,000 open source developers [...]
Members of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on June 28, rejected a network neutrality amendment to a wide-ranging broadband bill but it turns out that’s not the last they’re hearing of the issue, says CIO blog.
Since that vote, a group of organizations supporting a net neutrality law have cranked up [...]
A large trial of WiMax installations is planned across Russia using Aperto Networks’ PacketMAX products, reports EE Times.
Avalcom, Aperto’s leading reseller and systems integrator in Russia, has lined up nearly a dozen service providers in various regions of Russia and plans a series of pilot projects and trials over the next three months. Avalcom serves [...]
WiFi Planet reports that Freescale Semiconductor and Wavesat today announced a joint reference design for WiMax-enabled CPEs targeted at both residential customers and small to medium sized businesses.
Fawzi Behman, director of Strategic Marketing at Freescale, says the aim is to enable service providers to extend their portfolio of services. Instead of reinventing the wheel to [...]
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