Yesterday, the boards of AMD and ATI approved a merger whereby AMD will acquire the Canadian graphics card maker for $5.4 billion, reports Arstechnica, ZDNet, C/Net and TG Daily.
Not long after the news of the possible acquisition became public, Ars took a look at the technologies and finances involved in a [...]
A pen with a built-in WiFi finder and an LED flashlight seems like a pretty good idea. For $20 it seems like a great deal.
By pushing the button on the barrel Green/Yellow/Red LED’s will light to detect the strength of WiFi signal. It is said to detect signals within an area of [...]
PicoChip has signed an agreement with Korea Telecom (KT) to develop WiBro/WiMAX access points, sometimes called Femtocells. KT has launched a commercial WiBro service in Seoul and plans to cover most of South Korea by 2008.
Femtocells are small, low-cost basestations, intended to be used in residential or corporate environments. By enabling cost-effective deployment they allow [...]
AT&T and MetroFi are working together on a bid for a citywide WiFi network in Riverside, Calif (pop. 300,000, 86 square miles), reports C/Net. Currently, Riverside’s Wireless Mall provides free WiFi to the Main Street Pedestrian Mall (map). Conceived to attract business and improve the quality of life in downtown Riverside, the WiFi project will [...]
The Digital Challenge, explains explains The Guardian, arose from a realisation by the British government that merely giving people access to the internet was not in itself going to close the digital divide.
The idea is to find a community using IT in an imaginative way to fight exclusion and deprivation. The reward: a prize of [...]
Sascha Meinrath of the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWIN) has received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for their open-source mesh networking software project.
Sascha plans to use the money “to add staff, scour the globe for open source partners, and boost research and testing”, according to GigOm.
CUWiN’s mission is to help bridge the [...]
Samsung’s rugged sports camcorder, the SC-X210L, is a rugged compact model that records video on SD cards. The original remote lens connected to a helmet or headband via a USB cable. It is now going wireless.
The new SC-X210WL ($599) feature an external lens with a wireless connection.
The new Samsung Sportcams, like the SC-X205WL and [...]
Motorola and Yahoo said today they have reached a multiyear deal to load Yahoo services on tens of millions of new Motorola phones.
Motorola, the world’s second-largest cellphone maker after Nokia, will preload Yahoo’s e-mail, search, address book and local search features onto handsets beginning in the first half of 2007 in markets in the Americas, [...]
The Portland City Council today unanimously approved a contract with MetroFi to build a citywide Wi-Fi network and make free Web access available thoughout the city.
While many cities are building city-wide Wi-Fi networks, the 500,000 citizens in Oregon’s largest city will get the option of “free” 1 Mbps wireless (with an integrated ad banner) [...]
AT&T is launching a satellite TV set-top box Wednesday that also connects to the Internet for movie downloads, reinforcing the phone company’s push into video services, reports Light Reading.
The box, called AT&T Homezone, combines satellite TV programming from EchoStar with DSL service for video downloads. It will be initially available in Ohio and San [...]
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