More than $3 billion will be spent over the next four years to build and operate public wireless networks for U.S. municipalities, according to Muniwireless.com.
Interest by U.S. cities and counties in public wireless is exceeding earlier expectations, reports GovTech magazine.
Spending will exceed $235 million in 2006 — significantly higher the forecast of $177 [...]
“The razor toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygo centrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”
That’s the phrase that Ben Cook, the world’s fastest text messenger, was handed in the first head-to-head competition with a voice-recognition computer. The [...]
Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that the multimedia Flash technology, which enhances graphics and enables rich video and animation on PCs, will be embedded in applications made for Verizon Wireless cell phones. Verizon is the first wireless carrier in North America to embed Flash Lite, the companies said.
“Flash Lite for Brew“, developed by Adobe and Qualcomm, [...]
Hey, more blimps.
This time it’s from TECORE Wireless Systems and TCOM, a world-leading provider of weather-hardened tethered aerostats. They unveiled their Airborne Rapid Deployment Cellular System at MILCOM 2006 this week. The GSM/CDMA wireless system uses TECORE’s Rapid Response Mini-Cellular System on TCOM’s blimp to quickly deploy wide area cellular coverage.
Available in a [...]
Cingular is offering TeleNav’s TeleNav GPS Navigator for turn-by-turn voice and on-screen GPS directions on Cingular phones. Cingular’s new iPaq 6920/6925 come bundled with integrated GPS and navigation software. The new Windows Mobile 5.0 handset also includes a 416MHz processor, Bluetooth, 802.11g, a 1.3 megapixel camera, miniSD slot, and a 240 x 240 [...]
Apple announced today faster Core 2 Duo processors for it’s MacBook Pro models, as well as double the memory and larger hard drives.
Apple claims:
Combined with 4MB L2 cache and a myriad of other engineering leaps, the Intel Core 2 Duo boosts performance up to 39% higher than the previous MacBook Pro and over [...]
Sprint today announced that it has upgraded the Sprint Power Vision Network, to the faster EV-DO Revision A technology. San Diego is the first of 21 markets to get it.
Sprint will roll out EV-DO Revision A this year with coverage expected to reach more than 40 million people next year. Sprint Power Vision users [...]
There are 33 Reasons why VoIP is Destroying Traditional Telecoms insists VoIP Lowdown.
Over the last 5 years the traditional telecoms’ share of the telephone market has shrunk significantly as upstart cellular and VoIP competitors continue to gain ground. But even more bad news is on the horizon for the likes of AT&T [...]
T-Mobile rolled out today its @Home service in Seattle, reports PhoneScoop. @Home is T-Mobile’s brand name for Universal Mobile Access (UMA) which allows a cell phone to make calls over a Wi-Fi hotspot in addition to the cellular network.
In order to use @Home, customers need a compatible phone with Wi-Fi. T-Mobile is selling [...]
Broadcom says its “ultra-low power” chip will consume just 270 mW of power in active mode. By contrast, ordinary 11g transceivers can consume between 700 and 1300 mW in active state. Their BCM4326 (b/g) and BCM4328 (b/g/a) chips are now sampling. Mobile phones could be enabled with the chipset, says Broadcom, although Bluetooth [...]
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