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Archive for January, 2007

Cingular 8525 Review

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 29th, 2007

Mobile Burn reviews Cingular’s 8525, a Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC device. The HTC Hermes design features a large touch screen display, quad-band GSM with HSDPA, a 2 megapixel camera (sample photos) and WiFi.
Considering it supports HSDPA/UMTS data on all three bands, and EDGE/GPRS on all four world GSM bands, the 8525 has [...]

Motorola + TI to MAX

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 29th, 2007

Texas Instruments and Motorola today said they have entered into a strategic partnership to develop 3G and WiMAX handsets, using TI silicon. The new low-cost multimedia mobile devices are expected to be in the market in 2008.
TI and Motorola are jointly developing a WiMAX chip to be used in Motorola customer premises equipment devices. [...]

Vista Arrives

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 29th, 2007

Vista is here. After more than five years of development, over 50 million lines of software code, a $6 billion investment and a few headaches, Microsoft’s Windows Vista finally reaches consumers tonight at midnight. The new 2007 Office is also being rolled out.

In the next 3 months, Microsoft expects to sell [...]

Alvin to Space Station Phone Call

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 29th, 2007

A researcher on board the Alvin submersible placed a long-distance call to the International Space Station last week — the first call from deep sea to space. It could pave the way for future interplanetary communication, says New Scientist.
The idea for the chat originated quite a while ago from a conversation between astronaut Suni [...]

Ruckus Repeater for MetroFi

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 29th, 2007

The Ruckus MetroFlex DZ, a client especially made for metropolitan WiFi, is said to provide reliable connectivity to outdoor Wi-Fi networks, as well as an extended range indoor 802.11b/g access point.

The MetroFlex repeater can simultaneously function as both broadband client, connecting to outdoor Wi-Fi networks, and it can act as traditional access point inside the [...]

A $665 Million Police Radio?

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 28th, 2007

Above the fold in today’s Sunday Oregonian: A $665 million Police Radio?
Oregon’s first responders need to be able to talk to one another, but a high-tech upgrade has quite the price tag.
Buried deep inside the proposed state budget is a public safety communication network that would cost an eye-popping $665 million, or [...]

Scoble’s Intel Fab Tour

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 27th, 2007

Robert Scoble has a fascinating tour inside Intel’s new 45 nanometer fab in Hillsboro, Oregon. Intel Senior Fellow, Mark Bohr gave Bob a rare look inside Intel’s newest fab (inside D1D), that’ll make processors you’ll be buying in computers later this year.
In this tour you’ll see workers putting on their “bunny suits”, hear why [...]

County WiFi Cloud in MI

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 26th, 2007

A 720-square-mile Wi-Fi zone in Michigan will be completed at the end of this year, reports Information Week. Wireless Washtenaw will be one of the largest Wi-Fi networks in the U.S. and is distinguished by the mixing and matching of 802.11b/g in urban Ann Arbor and 802.11a in the 600-square-mile rural area of Washtenaw County.
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Datacast This

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 26th, 2007

Steve Bass, formerly the boss at Nashville Public Broadcasting and now Oregon Public Broadcasting, says there is one business model that will allow public television to serve users directly, take advantage of broadcasting’s direct reach and avoid middlemen altogether: datacasting.

We at Nashville Public Television see datacasting as our highest priority—so high that we’re reserving [...]

Gaming the Wireless

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 26th, 2007

Sales of mobile games totaled $500 million in 2006 in the U.S., representing revenue growth of 30 percent to 40 percent, says M-Metrics.
Cingular and T-Mobile expanded the depth of their catalogs considerably this year. M:Metrics counted 36 publishers with ten or more titles on decks. Publishers, operators and others in the mobile gaming sector use [...]