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Archive for June, 2007

A Cingular Sensation

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 29th, 2007

Does wireless causes brain damage? The following websites offer certifiable proof:

Google News

Yahoo Full Coverage

C/Net Special coverage

Multi-city Line Blog

Scoble On the Line

Ustream.Tv

Zoomr Live

PC World

CNN

Reuters

Mercury News

GigOm

Mac World

Wall St Journal

Washington Post

Make Your Phone an iPhone

Sensor Nets Get Small

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 28th, 2007

Motes, those tiny, low-powered sensor devices just got smaller. Moteiv, a San Francisco startup, recently introduced Tmote Mini, the smallest device yet. It fits in the MiniSD slot and can be incorporated in stationary network nodes, phones or PDAs.
The Tmote Mini comes standard with a temperature sensor, but includes hooks for connecting [...]

Rhode Island Wireless: Show Me the Money

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 28th, 2007

This is going to change everything. — Jerry Maguire

Rhode Island’s plan to build a state-wide WiMAX network was setback this week when the General Assembly chose not to back a $28.5-million loan, reports the Providence Journal.
The money was needed as a guarantee to build the Rhode Island Wireless Innovation Networks (RI-WINs). But Legislators [...]

Qwest Proposes Universal Service Changes

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 28th, 2007

Qwest proposed Wednesday to create a program that would subsidize high-speed Internet deployment to underserved rural areas that are not cost-effective for companies to service, reports the Denver Post.
The Universal Service Fund is paid for with a nearly 12 percent surcharge on phone bills. State public utilities commissions manage the program. The USF [...]

Nielsen Expands Phone Data

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 27th, 2007

The Nielsen Company, the longtime monitor of television consumption, is buying Telephia, a private company based in San Francisco that collects data on the cellular market, reports the NY Times.
Telephia tracks consumers’ phone calling, mobile Web surfing, video viewing and other data for advertisers. Nielsen has been building mobile tracking products on its own, [...]

SiBEAM Goes 60 GHz

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 27th, 2007

Startup SiBEAM today revealed its new WirelessHD chipset, designed to “make wireless multi-gigabit throughput a reality”, in the home.
SiBEAM’s operates in the 60 GHz or ‘millimeter-wave’ unlicensed band, with 7 GHz of frequency bandwidth. Technology competitor UWB operates from 1.5 to 7.5 GHz, while 802.11n uses one or two 20 MHz-wide channels (generally in the [...]

Indianapolis Hot Zone

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 27th, 2007

The Fountain Square Cultural District Wi-Fi Zone is touted as the largest free public wireless hot zone in Indiana, says the Indy Star. City officials cut the cord this morning.
Created as an economic development and tourism tool, the zone will be expanded at an undetermined date to include more of the district and the Indianapolis [...]

Wireless News Stand

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 27th, 2007

Here’s great idea from Design On Deadline.

The news window measures 14″ by 11″, which is the approximately screen dimensions of a standard 17″ monitor. A mini Mac drives it. Just about any computer can run a slideshow.
With AppleScript, Scott Walker, Assistant managing editor, The Birmingham News trained it to get the daily news.

Spectra-txt, [...]

Metro Beamforming: Wavion & More

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 27th, 2007

Wavion, a provider of metro Wi-Fi gear using beamforming, and ADC Telecommunications, a leading provider of high-end networking solutions, announced today that the two companies are cooperating to create an open architecture for municipal Wi-Fi networks.
Wavion’s WS410 spatially adaptive outdoor access point will be integrated with ADC’s SG-1 Service Gateway (pdf) to create [...]

T-Mobile UMA Goes National

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 27th, 2007

T-Mobile today announced nationwide availability of its HotSpot@Home service. It uses special Wi-Fi equipped handsets to transfer voice calls to designated HotSpots when they are in range (at home). The service costs an extra $19.99 per month.
When calls are made over a WiFi network instead of a cellular network, they do not count against the [...]