General Motor’s OnStar, which provides navigation and assistance services to nearly 5 million subscribers, may soon get competition from Microsoft, reports Bloomberg.
Microsoft’s service, called Sync, would connect through a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone and allow drivers to make calls or access music by voice request. The system, which has a small monitor in the dash, [...]
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McDonald’s Singapore is using digital signage to attract customers, reports Broadcast Engineering. In the initial phase of an Asia-wide program, 67 of 127 Singapore restaurants have been outfitted with interactive digital signage technology.
Diners can interact by sending text messages that are displayed on an [...]
The muni mesh shakeout continues, says Unstrung, with reports from several industry sources about layoffs at startup Strix Systems.
Sources say around 10 people — maybe more — have been laid off from the company, which was said to employ 70-odd before the cuts. “Strix had a couple rounds of very selective layoffs followed by a [...]
Intel has a Solar-Powered WiMAX Base Station white paper (pdf). In remote sites where there is no grid electricity, the cost of a diesel generator can be as high as 40 cents per kWh, including the cost of fuel delivery to the site. In some cases, an electric generator is transported to a repair [...]
Sequans Mobile WiMAX chip reference designs in combination with Rohde & Schwarz will present a live demonstration at the WiMAX Forum technical and certification working group, August 21st thru 24th in Munich this week.
Sequans SQN1130 Wave 2 chips (pdf) are said to feature the industry’s highest throughput and lowest power consumption. Sequans’ [...]
A smart image resizing algorithm, introduced at SIGGRAPH this month, aims to make images as dynamically resizable as text. It may be utilized for retargeting content from web pages to cell phones.
Ariel Shamir of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science in Herzliya, Israel, calls the technique “scene carving” (pdf). It can stretch or compress [...]
Good News! Website Optimization says the United States has improved its broadband penetration ranking from twenty-fifth to twenty-fourth.
As of Q1 2007, 52.72% of US households had a broadband connection while Australia was at 51.93%. South Korea still leads the pack at 89.38%, with Hong Kong at 87.14%, Monaco at 82.92%, Iceland at 75.76%, [...]
There are now some 71 products that offer some 802.11n compatibility. This January, the 802.11n working group okayed Draft 2.0 with the full IEEE approving it some months later. The next step is Draft 3.0, which should see only minor modifications from 2.0, followed by the official 802.11n specification late next year.
Draft 2.0 hardware [...]
The Wi-Spy, an inexpensive ($99) WiFi Analyzer has been available for over a year (see DailyWireless; 12 WiFi Analyzers Compared & $99 Spectrum Analyzer from Jan, 2006), but now Meta Geek has updated their product line.
Here’s a comparison between their $199 Wi-Spy and their $399 Wi-Spy 2.4x which has better resolution and an external [...]
Ubiquiti Networks, an innovator in low-cost indoor/outdoor broadband wireless solutions, announced the general availability of the XtremeRange3 this week.
The UXtremeRange3 is available in three different models with frequency operation spanning 2.7GHz to 3.7GHz. The company says it’s the world’s first 3GHz 802.11 Atheros based mini-PCI radio module incorporating Ubiquiti’s patent-pending Frequency Freedom Technology. [...]
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