The Associated Press reports that a Utah company, S5 Wireless, has a small, cheap GPS tracker that can be powered by a single battery for up two years. Unlike the Global Positioning System, S5’s technology tracks indoors and out, but only works where the company has a network of stations to receive S5 signals at [...]
EE Times lists Five wireless trends to watch in 2008
802.11n
Currently, it’s still in draft form and won’t be ratified until probably 2009, but so far that hasn’t stopped vendors like Cisco, Meru and others from shipping 11n-enabled products. 11n separates itself from its a/b/g counterparts by offering faster throughput — between 100 and 200 [...]
Alcatel-Lucent, the mobile operator 3 Italia and Italian public broadcaster RAI are launching the first trial of Mobile TV based on the DVB-SH standard in Italy.
DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite services to Handhelds) is an evolution of DVB-H, which is providing higher spectrum efficiency and allows integration with hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks. The trial, based [...]
Intel has developed a test chip for software defined radio that can handle Wi-Fi, WiMAX and DVB-H digital TV in one chip, reports Electronics Weekly.
It would allow users to access the WiFi network in the home, automatically handover to a WiMAX network when you leave the house and also access digital TV on the move, [...]
Pulse~LINK, in a battle with the incompatible WiMedia standard for a defacto Ultra Wideband (UWB) communications standard, announced today that its recently released CWave UWB chipset is the fastest UWB solution and is well positioned to emerge as the 21st century architecture for full-home multimedia connectivity.
The independent UWB test results (pdf), published in this [...]
MySpace and Sprint have gotten together to link the MySpace Mobile Web site to Sprint mobile phones for one click access from the Sprint portal.
The new version of MySpace Mobile will feature rich graphical design, a revamped email interface and other new features. The site is currently in beta at mobile.myspace.com and has seen [...]
Tim Higgins of Small Net Builder says a new WiFi adapter can change your wireless performance:
A reader recently wrote and asked if changing his wireless adapter could improve the range of his 802.11b/g wireless network. Whenever I’ve looked at wireless adapters that claim to improve performance in the past, I’ve always come away with mixed [...]
Cellyspace (http://www.cellyspace.com) has launched a do-it-yourself, web-based Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) for users to create multimedia greeting cards and send them to their family and friend’s phones.
Dubbed the “MMS Composer,” this service allows users to upload pictures and audio files from their computer, edit them into a slideshow and then send them for [...]
Volkswagen and Universities in Germany announced a research project called C3World – Connected Cars in a Connected World. C3World aims to develop a car-to-car or car-to-infrastructure communication technology that would provide the driver with information on road conditions.
According to Prof. Jürgen Leohold, Head of Volkswagen Group Research, the Volkswagen C3World will bring the World Wide [...]
The firm Philadelphia has retained to build a citywide wireless Internet network has spent millions more than its anticipated costs and cannot say when it will complete the project, City Council members were told yesterday. EarthLink representatives were a no show for a committee hearing on Wireless Philadelphia, yesterday, reports Philly.com. Greg Goldman, CEO of [...]
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