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Archive for May, 2007

WiFi Slurpr: 6 Links in 1

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 29th, 2007

Jar Jar: How wude! — The Phantom Menace

Do you suffer from Poor WiFi Signal Performance? WiFi Planet explains that when you connect to a wireless network, you are connecting to a single access point (AP). But your laptop will roam to other APs with the same SSID, so you can continue to use the network. [...]

WiFi & WiMAX Will Dominate Machine-to-Machine

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 29th, 2007

“Municipal Wi-Fi and WiMAX will challenge 3G cellular technology in machine-to-machine communications for many applications and in many locales,” said Sam Lucero, a senior analyst at ABI Research and author of the report.
Third-generation networks are expected to capture only 30 percent of the “M2M” communications market by 2012, predicts ABI Research.
“Some think that [...]

Qualcomm Jumps Shark?

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 29th, 2007

Otter: Bluto’s right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons … but that could take years and cost millions of lives. — Animal House

Has Qualcomm jumped the shark with their latest round of lawsuits? Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, said last Tuesday that the ongoing patent [...]

What Up at Where 2.0

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 29th, 2007

O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 is the third annual conference bringing together developments in the location industry. The Where 2.0 Conference News has podcasts. At O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference, 18 presentations where held over 2 hours, 6 launches and 12 Ignite talks, covering various aspect of the geo world.
Perhaps the biggest news was Google’s virtual walking [...]

WiMAX World Europe

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 29th, 2007

The WiMAX World Europe Conference, May 29-31, in Vienna, Austria, features a Conference Program, Keynotes, Mobile Broadband Executive Summit, and lots of Exhibitors.

News from the show floor includes:

picoChip announced a basestation reference design, with a software upgrade to support Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 and MIMO. PicoChip says their new PC8532 WiMAX platform is [...]

Gaming One Laptop

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 28th, 2007

One Laptop Per Child (wiki) is asking software coders to develop free, open-source educational computer games for the XO laptop, reports PC World.
Software teams will create new games during a three-day “game jam”, from June 8-10 on the campus of Olin College, an engineering school in Needham, Massachusetts.
By increasing the software available for the XO, [...]

Indy Unwired

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 28th, 2007

Jean Girard: My husband Gregory and I want what any couple wants. To retire to Stockholm and develop a currency for dogs and cats to use. — Ballad of Ricky Bobby

The 2007 Indianapolis 500 yesterday (wikipedia), was broadcast in high definition for the first time. ABC Sports used All Mobile Video gear consisting of [...]

Traffic Mapping

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 25th, 2007

Tele Atlas, a Boston-based company that provides digital maps and navigational content, has integrated street congestion into its maps so that drivers can see congestion maps at any hour, says Technology Review.
The software was developed by Inrix, a startup based in Kirkland, WA, that provides real-time and predictive traffic information.
The software determines the average [...]

Blackberry To Get WiFi

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 25th, 2007

Mobile devices will move to Fixed Mobile Convergence, with WiFi as early as this year, says Jim Balsillie, Research In Motion co-CEO.
At the JP Morgan Technology Conference this week, Balsillie said that RIM will have a Wi-Fi-enabled BlackBerry “in the back half of this year.” Current Blackberry devices use cellular networks for [...]

FTTH Comes Home

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 25th, 2007

Norway’s largest power utility company, Hafslund, has signed a contract with PacketFront, to build an open access FTTH (Fiber-To-The-Home) network in 0stlandet, the area in and around Oslo.

Hafslund is by far the largest power utility company in Norway and this is considered one of this year’s most important contracts in the Norwegian telecom sector.
In the [...]