HIMSS07, the premier Healthcare IT show, taking place this week in New Orleans, featured new WiFi-based tracking tags from AeroScout and and PanGo among other announcements.
AeroScout today announced the T3 Series, an advanced, feature-rich tag for asset and people tracking and real-time location solutions. It will build on AeroScout’s proven asset tracking with [...]
Information Week reviews some popular WiFi phones. Skype and Vonage have each partnered with hardware manufacturers to release cell-like phones that can use their services via Wi-Fi networks, says Information Week.
Traditional cell carriers are launching dual-mode phones that also run over Wi-Fi networks. T-Mobile is testing HotSpot@Home in Seattle. The service may be extended to [...]
The Alaska Daily News reports 21-year old Brian Tanner got busted by the cops up in Palmer, Alaska for using the local library’s free Wi-Fi to play World of Warcraft after the library had closed. Patrolling cops seized the poor guy’s laptop and claimed that although the library provides free Wi-Fi, there are rules governing [...]
Bike Community.net reviews the options for geocoding your photos:
When riding my bike (or during skiing) I often take photos. Sometimes I also carry a small GPS-receiver. Afterwards I want to be able to link the photos to the geographic information and add coordinates to the pictures I was taking – in an easy way. This [...]
One-third of U.S. Internet users have connected to the Web using a wireless network according to a survey released on Sunday by the Pew Internet Project (pdf).
According to C/Net, the survey also found that 20 percent of Internet users now have wireless networks available at home, double the number recorded in January 2005.
Some 34 percent [...]
ISP Planet says the FCC has some spectrum and everyone wants a piece of it.
As part of the migration of TV broadcast from analog to digital, spectrum previously allocated to UHF and VHF broadcast (and little used) might be opened to other users.
The spectrum under discussion (according to the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, [...]
Frank Shaw at Waggener Edstrom has some salient points about the on-line/print advertising mix.
Ad Age has a good report about what Hearst is doing with its online properties, looking first at Esquire.
There is general agreement that having the right mix of print and online will be key to any publication thriving for the next decade, [...]
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GTX Corp. says they’ve got the world’s first GPS system [...]
Mobile WiMAX provider Clearwire has hired Los Angeles-based Omnicom Group’s DDB as its new advertising agency, reports RCR News. Clearwire currently offers WiMAX service in 35 markets, most of them small to midsize metropolitan areas.
Spending on the carrier’s advertising account was expected to grow to more than $25 million. Other contenders for the account included [...]
Chief executive of Nvidia, the world’s No .1 supplier of graphics processing units (GPUs), said the company has shipped 400 thousand of the GeForce 8800 graphics chips since October and is ramping up other DirectX 10-supporting GPUs.
The head of Nvidia also confirmed that the company has plans to release a family of GPUs for notebooks [...]
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