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Archive for February, 2008

Nuclear Powered Spacecraft

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 27th, 2008

Freeman Dyson is a scientific historian, the son of Freeman Dyson and brother of Esther Dyson. He is the author of Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957-1965 (Google Books) and Darwin Among the Machines (1998), where he suggested that the internet is a living, sentient being.

George Dyson tells the amazing story of Project Orion [...]

Internet Advertising: Up 25%

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2008

TechCrunch notes that the Interactive Advertising Bureau has a preliminary estimate of $21.1 billion for U.S. Internet ads in 2007, a 25 percent increase over 2006.
Meanwhile, the Kelsey Group puts U.S. Internet advertising at $22.5 billion for 2007 (IDC, as previously reportedby TechCrunch, is at the high end with $25.5 billion).

The Kelsey Group [...]

New Apple Laptops

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2008

Today Apple introduced upgraded laptops in its consumer-level MacBook and high-end MacBook Pro line. Both product lines feature the latest Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn processors.

MacBook Pro now has up to a 2.6GHz processor with 6MB of shared L2 cache; up to 4GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory and up to a 300GB hard [...]

Google + SingTel = Unity Submarine Fiber

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2008

Proving that telecommunications security is a two-way street, Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) said on Tuesday that it has entered an agreement with five international telecommunications carriers to build a ultra high-speed cable system worth $300 million (see DW: Google: Now it’s Transpacific Fiber).
The submarine system, named Unity, will link the United States to Japan across 10,000 [...]

RFID “skimming” a Felony

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2008

I used to have this professor at Oxford, okay? Doctor Wickham, his name was and he was, like, this massive fat guy, you know? Huge, big guy. We used to call him - you know, well, I won’t tell you what we used to call him, but he taught biomolecular kinetics and cellular dynamics. And [...]

Public Safety Radio Conference

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2008

The International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) brings users from security, utilities, transportation, construction, education, and Public Safety together to talk radios.

It runs Feb 27-29, in Las Vegas and features training sessions, 350 exhibitors and a variety of speakers.

Mobile Radio Technology magazine, which sponsors the conference, covers the field. Their article on the current status [...]

Net Neutrality: Up to the FCC?

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2008

The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday he is “ready, willing and able” to stop broadband providers that unreasonably interfere with subscribers’ access to Internet content.
The comment by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin came at the start of a day-long FCC hearing centering on allegations that some broadband providers have been improperly [...]

Can WiMAX Save Qwest?

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2008

Qwest Communications’s chief executive said on Monday that he was working for a new kind of wireless partnership with Sprint Nextel, reports Reuters.
“We need a wireless partnership that is different than the one we have today,” Chief Executive Ed Mueller told an analyst meeting.
“I think we have much to do in wireless,” he said during [...]

White Space War Continues

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2008

Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes…
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
– Ghost Busters

Members of the White Spaces Coalition say their wireless broadband device tested [...]

iPass Unites Login

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2008

iPass today announced a new version of its iPassConnect mobility manager for a variety of laptop and mobile devices.
It is said to provide a consistent login experience across “the world’s largest multi-technology virtual network of 3G mobile broadband, 90,000 active Wi-Fi and Ethernet locations”, as well as dial-up in 160 countries. The software also [...]