David Pogue at the NY Times reviews 3rd party apps for the iPhone. His video demonstrates some of the nifty applications and how easy they are to install. Pogue suggests people check out Installer.app for a catalog of free applications and easy installation. It works by downloading packages over WiFi or EDGE. It supports installing, [...]
IBM and Firetide today announced a new project with the City of Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications to implement one of the world’s largest video security deployments. The new system analyzes images in real time 24 hours a day, linking some 3,000 cameras which can zoom close enough to read license plates. Operation [...]
The University of Oregon has won a $435,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the commercial potential of technology developed within Oregon’s research universities. The funding will allow grad students to evaluate whether technology developed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory — which has a Nanotechnology facility — has commercial applications. Starlight (left), [...]
Truphone demonstrated Voice over Wi-Fi using the Apple iPhone at DEMOfall 07 this week. Chief executive officer James Tagg made the VoIP call in front of an audience of 350 delegates. Truphone also works on the latest ‘dual-mode’ WiFi phones including the Nokia E60, E61, E61i, E65, E70 E90, N80 Internet Edition and N95. Truphone [...]
Broadcom today announced the world’s first full-featured, single-chip 802.11n solution. Broadcom says their newest member of the Broadcom Intensi-fi product family is not only the smallest and most cost-effective 802.11n solution on the market, but is the first to enable Wi-Fi products to achieve over 200 Megabits per second (Mbps) of actual wireless throughput. The [...]
Sprint’s $5 billion WiMAX venture will be launched in the spring of 2008 in Chicago, Washington, DC, and Baltimore, with a nationwide rollout to follow. But Ars Technica got a preview on the Chicago River yesterday. Hosted by Motorola, tonight’s event was a chance to get an idea of WiMAX’s real-world performance. For the demo, [...]
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