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Archive for October, 2007

Mil Con

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 30th, 2007

Military communications takes center stage at Milcom 2007, the industry’s annual trade show, with some 275 exhibitors showing everything from ultra-light combat radios to super-secure encryption for counterintelligence. Milcom, the defense contractors annual bash, will be held in Orlando this year. More than 4,000 attendees from around the globe will hear senior military leaders and [...]

Wireless SD Card

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 30th, 2007

The 2 Gig SD eyeFi card, a $99 WiFi/memory card, claims it can automatically upload photos from your digital camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking site. The oft delayed SD card connects over a Wi-Fi network using its own onboard processor to transfer images [...]

U.S. Cellular Growth

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 29th, 2007

CTIA’s CEO, Steve Largent, shared a few stats with the crowd before last week’s San Francisco, convention: There are 243 million U.S. subscribers, totaling about 80 percent of the population. Four years ago, there were fewer than 160 million U.S. subscribers. 1 billion text messages are sent every day in the U.S. 472 million picture [...]

VSNL WiMaxes Bangalore

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 29th, 2007

VSNL, a national player in India’s broadband and internet market, plans to roll out commercial WiMax services in Bangalore over the next two months. VSNL, “would use this platform to showcase the WiMax services and its unique value added services to engage with potential customers and channel partners”, according to Prateek Pashine, VP, Planning, VSNL. [...]

AT&T Delays MobileTV Launch

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 29th, 2007

AT&T has delayed its broadcast mobile TV service launch to early 2008. Verizon Wireless launched it’s MediaFLO USA service under the V-Cast brand last March. Eight months ago AT&T committing to launching a similar service by the end of the year. The carrier is now aiming to launch the MediaFLO-powered service in January or February, [...]

WiFi Cities: The Undead?

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 29th, 2007

WiMAX has its problems, says Network World. But it might be a better bet than Municipal WiFi. Take St. Louis. Please. AT&T said Friday that it’s scrapping plans to provide WiFi across the city’s 62 square miles. It’s a good idea, the company said, just too expensive. Instead they will build a pilot project in [...]