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Archive for October, 2006

Governor + Verizon?

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 30th, 2006

Fulfilling his commitment to digitally connect California’s cities, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order today to clear the government red tape for building broadband networks, reports GovTech Magazine. Karl Bode at DSL Reports posts this story: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday signed an executive order aimed at making California a broadband leader. The [...]

Univ of Washington: Unwired by Aruba

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 30th, 2006

Aruba Networks today announced that the University of Washington has completed the first phase of its three-year project to deploy ubiquitous mobile access across its Seattle campus . To date, the university has deployed fourteen Aruba 6000 mobility controllers and over 2,000 Aruba AP-70 access points. The wireless network is expected to be completed in [...]

Tablet Turbo Boost?

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 30th, 2006

On2 Technologies, a leading provider of video compression solutions, will demonstrate its VP6 and VP7 video compression running on TI embedded processors during the upcoming GSPx ’06, a Global Signal Processing conference held October 30 through November 2 in Santa Clara, California (speakers, schedule and press). On2′s demonstrations include On2 VP6 video for TI 64x [...]

700 MHZ Spectrum Grab?

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 30th, 2006

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) this month passed a resolution expressing support for the reallocation of 30 MHz of spectrum in the upper 700 MHz band to be held in trust for public safety — a notion first proposed earlier this year by Cyren Call Communications, reports Mobile Radio Technology. It would [...]

Joint SeattleWireless/Portland Field Day

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 28th, 2006

PersonalTelco’s Field Day (photos) and the Seattle Wireless Field day are combining forces today, on a joint real-time connectivity project between the respective cities. The plan is to set up Portland gear on Rocky Butte (45.546868,-122.566038) and point antennas at Crown Point (45.539594,-122.244358) and Larch Mountain (45.532567,-122.087631). Then, with an internet connection established, the remote [...]

DailyWireless Nominated

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 28th, 2006

Here’s a bit of shameless self-promotion — DailyWireless has been nominated for the Fierce Wireless Top 20 Blogs. These “contests” can be mostly self-promotion, of course. Note that Unstrung, a significant competitor to Fierce, was not included. Here are some other good tech blogs. Still, they are offering a Motorola Q in a random drawing [...]