Thanks to Navizon software, owners of Blackberries can now:
See where they are on a map and find their next
destination
See the whereabouts of their friends or coworkers.
Search for businesses such as bars or restaurants near where they are.
A GPS device is not required. Navizon’s Virtual-GPS is able to triangulate [...]
RFID Journal LIVE! 2007, produced by RFID Journal, runs April 30 to May 2, 2007 in Orlando.
You can hear from the top industry leaders in a comprehensive RFID agenda.
Learn the benefits of RFID in Retail/CPG, Health Care/Pharma, Aerospace/Defense, Manufacturing and Transportation/ Logistics.
Industry solutions and demos will be featured from RFID vendors along with the [...]
A statewide wireless broadband network is planned for South Carolina. The goal is for schools, homes, public safety workers, municipalities, hospitals and health care workers, businesses and visitors to have Internet access anytime and anywhere, in rural or urban areas, says Rep. Dwight Loftis, a Greenville Republican who co-authored the bill to fund the project. [...]
Seven new and updated 3D cities were published yesterday - Calgary, Redmond, Buffalo, Beaverton, Portland, Swindon and Brighton on Microsoft’s Virtual Earth.
Lots of aerial and Birds Eye imagery was published as well. Here’s Portland, Intel in Beaverton/Hillsdale, Calgary and Brighton.
Converting flat images into 3-D virtual-reality models that can be manipulated on-screen is the essense of [...]
AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre is getting a $158 million retirement package when the 65-year-old Texan retires this June, reports the Wall Street Journal. He’ll also make more than $1 million per year for three years as a consultant for the company, according to Business Week.
Other perks, include country club fees ($25,000) and automobile benefits ($24,000 [...]
The One Laptop Per Child program, promoting a $100 laptop has apparently morphed into a $176 laptop that can run Windows, reports Engadget.
Furthermore, 19 state governors have reportedly shown interest in grabbing a few of the inexpensive machines for their own schoolkids, and while the creator initially stated that the XOs were “designed for [...]
Internet radio broadcasters could get a break from a bill introduced this week that would lower the rates they pay for playing music, reports Information Week.
U.S. Reps. Don Manzullo, an Illinois Republican, and Jay Inslee, a Washington Democrat, introduced a bill to overturn a Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decision that would require Internet broadcasters to [...]
The WiMax market appears to be heating up in Europe, reports Unstrung, with a number of RFPs being issued by WiMax license owners in Germany and France.
At the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s WiMax London conference yesterday, Markku Hollstrom of Nokia Siemens, said his company is talking with operators in Germany and France and that [...]
Think, boys. Think!
– The Music Man
The FCC voted unanimously this week to sell slices of 700 MHz spectrum in a mix of geographic sizes, including multistate parcels sought by carriers such as AT&T and Verizon Wireless. The FCC waited to decide how to divide up the spectrum while it seeks comment.
Haggling over how the [...]
I’m attending the fourth annual InnoTech Conference and Exposition at the Oregon Convention Center, April 25-26, 2007, so posting may be light today and tomorrow.
This conference is both inexpensive (just $35) and features interesting speakers and sessions, including Wi-Not WiMAX?, Wireless Technologies: Do You Know What You Need To Know? and Municipal Wireless Networks; What [...]
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