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Archive for September, 2006

Intel Triple Play?

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 27th, 2006

Intel today unveiled details around a high definition digital set-top box with integrated digital media adapter. Through the integrated DMA, the DIRECTV digital set-top box users can access pictures and music on their TVs from Intel Viiv PCs.

In a keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini detailed plans for DIRECTV’s [...]

Swarming UAVs

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 27th, 2006

MIT researchers, in collaboration with Boeing’s Phantom Works, have developed a UAV airborne fleet that requires little human supervision, covers a wide area, and automatically maintains the “health” of its vehicles, reports Science Daily.
Aeronautics and Astronautics Professor Jonathan How, who heads the research team, believes it is the first platform to publicly demonstrate sustained, coordinated, [...]

WiMAX Plugfest

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 26th, 2006

The WiMAX Forum has brought 21 equipment vendors and operators together for the first public mobile WiMAX Forum PlugFest, an interoperability showcase hosted by Bechtel Telecommunications at its Training, Demonstration, and Research Laboratory in Frederick, Maryland. The PlugFest kicked off on Sunday, September 24, 2006 and will conclude on Sunday, October 1.

Participating companies [...]

Social Net Wallop

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 26th, 2006

Wallop, a Microsoft spin-off, launched its social networking service today at DEMOfall, reports Techcrunch, BetaNews, C/Net and Paid Content.
Unlike other social networking services like Facebook and MySpace, Wallop is invite-only and won’t include advertising. Instead, Wallop makes money through the purchase of self-expression items that can [...]

Media Phones

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 26th, 2006

Nokia today announced five new multimedia GSM phones for the United States, but did not announce any accompanying carrier deals.
Three of the devices—the N70, N73 and N91 are optimized for music. The N70 is expected to cost about $445 (retail), the N73 $570, and the N91 about $700. [...]

Wireless USB Gets Set

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 26th, 2006

The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) today announced the availability of the Certified Wireless USB Compliance and Certification Program. This program is the only way for manufacturers to achieve certification and qualify to use the Certified Wireless USB logo, by testing their products directly against the Wireless USB specification requirements.
Wireless USB hopes to replace USB cables [...]

Oil Rig WiMAX

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 26th, 2006

Redline Communications announced today that they will deploy the world’s first multipoint WiMAX network at sea. Redline’s broadband wireless system will be used by Pemex to establish the high-speed WiMAX connections on board a cluster of 11 off-shore oil rig platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
AlanDick, the communications infrastructure specialist, has the contract for [...]

Netgear WiFi Media Hub

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 25th, 2006

Netgear’s Digital Entertainer EVA700 streams all sorts of digital media to your TV or stereo. The EVA700 is Intel Viiv verified, explains Gizmodo, who says it’s like an Apple ITV. Only real.

In the back there’s component, S-Video, Digital Coax/SPDIF audio, and RCA outputs to connect to your TV or home theater. It also has 802.11g [...]

Rain on SF Cloud

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 25th, 2006

Broadband Reports and Katie Fehrenbacher of GigOm say San Francisco’s free Wi-Fi cloud is being delayed by a slow-moving city bureaucracy, five months after Google and Earthlink won the highly publicized contract to build and operate the network.

The city says progress is being made, but the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and the [...]

HDTV from Aircraft

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 25th, 2006

This Saturday I awoke to the sound of a helicopter with a huge camera mount hanging off its snout. It was Pictorvision movie mount. Wescam created the the gyro-stabilized industry in 1969 and sold it to military contractor L3 a few years back. Now Wescam does wireless video for the military while Pictorvision concentrates on [...]