So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side. — Apollo 13
In a preview of the WiMax service that will blanket Chicago next spring, Motorola engineers have activated four antennas along Chicago’s Wacker Drive, to demonstrate the technology to thousands of visitors who will attend WiMax World 2007 at McCormick Place, reports the Chicago Tribune. [...]
Marge: “Say, Lou, ya hear the one about the guy who couldn’t afford personalized license plates so he went and changed his name to J2L 4685?”
Lou: “Yah, that’s a good one.”
- Fargo
Free, free, everything free.
Fox, owned by media powerhouse News Corp., announced Monday it plans to launch new ad-supported mobile versions of its MySpace social [...]
One Laptop Per Child today launched a give one, get one program that will allow US residents to purchase two laptops for $399.
One of the machines will be given to a child in a developing nation, and the other one will be shipped to the purchaser by Christmas. The donated computer is a tax-deductible [...]
The Missouri Department of Transportation has begun anonymously monitoring cell phone signals as a high-tech way of tracking vehicle speeds and warning motorists of traffic jams. The goal is for motorists to get real-time traffic information over the Internet or road signs.
Privacy concerns have slowed down the Missouri project - the largest of its kind [...]
Intel is teaming up with telecommunications service provider KDDI to launch a WiMax network in Japan. Intel said it has joined a joint venture called Wireless Broadband Planning K.K. (WBPK) that will seek to obtain a license from the Japanese government to operate a wireless network utilizing WiMax technology.
The other WBPK members include Kyocera, Daiwa [...]
EarthLink said today that SK Telecom would invest up to $270 million in Helio, their wireless voice and data services joint venture. Earthlink is reducing its investment in the joint venture.
Helio expects to end the year with between 200,000 and 250,000 subscribers and a full-year net loss of $340 million to $360 million, EarthLink said [...]
A combination of WiMax and satellite will beam wireless broadband to one of the most remote corners of Vietnam, reports EE Times.
Working with the state-owned Vietnam Data Communication Company and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Intel said it had delivered Internet access to Ta Van, a village in mountainous northern Vietnam near [...]
Google may be planning an undersea Pacific cable, reports the NY Times. And it is getting ready to hire ships that will lay a data communications cable across the Pacific, according to a report from Communications Day, an Australian trade news service.
The project, called Unity, hopes to have a cable in service by 2009. [...]
Linksys has a new WRT100 wireless router that uses MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) technology.
The $99.99 MIMO router is accompanied by the WPC100, a MIMO notebook card — also $99. Both the WRT100 and WPC100 are available now through Linksys e-commerce resellers. A wireless PCI adapter and a wireless USB notebook adapter will be [...]
Textually.org files this tidbit:
Sprint Nextel’s proposal to build 106-foot cellular tower in the shape of a silo (in the village of Philomont in rural western Loudoun County), was rejected by home owners.
“It’s visually obscene,” said Ken Rothschild, who lives near the proposed site.
“The monstrosity will be in plain view of my house,” said Tim [...]
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