The Sacramento city council approved a contract this summer to build Wi-Fi across 90 square miles of the city through a consortium, consisting of Azulstar, Cisco, IBM, Intel and SeaKay.
But Wireless Sacramento’s plan to blanket the city with free and paid wireless Internet access, has stalled reports the Sacramento Bee. Money problems. The consortia [...]
The World Solar Challenge 2007 in Australia (wikipedia) started on Sunday with 41 solar cars on their way across Austrailia, notes TG Daily.
The 1870 mile race travels from Darwin on the north end, through the Outback, and ends in
Adelaide, in South Australia. The race will officially end on October 28, with first cars are [...]
A WiMAX Forum conference and Taipei Showcase this week will demonstrate live Mobile WiMAX products and services. The WiMAX Forum also announced the opening of the industry’s first WiMAX Forum-endorsed application lab and the results of its fourth public, Mobile WiMAX PlugFest.
The M-Taiwan WiMAX Application Lab located in Hsinchu, is designed to be an open [...]
Here’s the problem with most news: it isn’t. It’s olds. It happened hours ago, or last night, or yesterday, or last month, or before whenever the deadline was in the news organization’s current “news cycle”. It’s not now.
So sayeth Doc Searls inspired by Dave Winer’s news feed experiments.
Here are Winer’s New York Times keyword index [...]
Kyocera Wireless today announced the KR2 Mobile Router, a followon to their ground breaking KR1 Mobile Router (now $199) which integrates a WiFi hotspot with cellular EVDO backhaul in one small box.
The KR2 Mobile Router supports PCMCIA, ExpressCard and USB devices for wireless connectivity and features 802.11n (Draft 2.0) for longer-range, faster Wi-Fi. The [...]
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU-R) has included WiMAX technology (doc) in the official IMT-2000 set of global telecommunications standards. The decision puts WiMAX on par with other ITU standards such as W-CDMA, CDMA-2000, and TD-SCDMA and escalates opportunities for global deployment.
With WiMax now a part of the IMT-2000 family of 3G standards, operators [...]
Cognitive-radio vendor Shared Spectrum this week announced that that it has been awarded funds from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to develop a multi-band cognitive radio system designed for public-safety use, reports MRT Magazine.
Traditional public safety radios operate only in a given frequency band that can get congested. Cognitive radios are designed to sense [...]
Hackers have a new technique for breaking into Wi-Fi networks protected by the aging (and increasingly misnamed) Wireless Equivalent Privacy, reports the BBC and The Register.
The so-called ‘Cafe Latte’ attack aims to retrieve the WEP keys from the PCs of road warriors. The approach concentrates its attack on wireless clients, as opposed to earlier attacks [...]
United Launch Alliance successfully launched the fourth modernized GPS Block II R-M military NAVSTAR today from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, following a launch of the nation’s first Wideband Global SATCOM communications spacecraft last week, reports SpaceflightNow .
GPS is being modernized to offer new signals and codes. GPS 2R-M (for Modernized), provides two new military signals [...]
In 2006 Federal Highway Administration listed 25.8% of nation’s 596,842 bridges either as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. While many of these bridges will remain in service for many years, they need monitoring and rehabilitation.
Presently, bridge monitoring is performed through periodic visual inspections. In the tragic example of I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse, the bridge [...]
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