Ruckus Wireless today introduced an extensive range of products for commercial and residential businesses. They use Ruckus’ Smart Wi-Fi system that beams signals to clients. For hotspot applications, Ruckus is augmenting its ZoneFlex AP offerings with two new products: the MediaFlex 2835 ($259) and ZoneFlex 7942 ($699) .
The new products include:
Ruckus MediaFlex 2835 ($259), a [...]
DailyWireless had a couple of stories on Botanicalls, last year. Botanicalls allows plants talk to you.
Now your houseplants can Twitter, too.
When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks “when you show it love”.
Space Data Corp is getting a lot of press about its plan to provide specialized telecom services to truckers and oil companies via balloons. The Wall Street Journal has a good video (below), explaining how it works.
The article says Google is interested in using the technology, even buying the company. The Air Force conducted [...]
A new report from Connected Nation (pdf) predicts that the current legislation promoting broadband development in the U.S. could provide an economic stimulus of as much as $134 billion annually.
The report was an obvious pitch for Congress to get behind broadband, says MuniWireless. Connected Nation stresses more DSL and fiber.
It’s modeled after the [...]
Motorola has named a new chief financial officer, reports RCR News. Paul Liska, a former Sears, Roebuck and Co. CFO, will take over March 1 for Tom Meredith, a Motorola board member who was named interim CFO last March.
Liska, who most recently was a partner at several private-equity firms, is a surprise choice for the [...]
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officials, Mayor Gavin Newsom and Cisco Systems unveiled a yearlong pilot program, called the Connected Bus (pdf), which is a single bus outfitted with wireless Internet capabilities.
The bus will begin running next week and will be moved around to different lines throughout the year, transit officials said.
Painted green, the bus [...]
The Nike+ line of products, that connect to Nike shoes to Apple’s iPod, use a wireless sensor to give you real-time feedback during workouts and let you track your performance on your Mac or PC.
Now it may be moving to a Nike-banded bracelet, if FCC reports are any indication.
The expected bracelet would also communicates [...]
Sprint’s WiMAX service is going open platform in a big way, says Jason Hiner of Tech Republic:
Later this year, Sprint will release open APIs and a software development kit (SDK) so that hardware and software makers can develop solutions to take advantage of Sprint’s mobile WiMAX network. Both Barry West, Sprint’s CTO, and Atish Gude, [...]
The BBC has publicly apologised for a report in their documentary series Panorama in which they broadcast misleading facts on the risks of Wi-Fi broadband, reports Broadband Genie.
The Panorama investigation (video) claimed that radiation levels in some schools were up to three times the level found in the main beam of intensity from mobile phone [...]
T-Mobile has officially unveiled its “HotSpot @Home Talk Forever Home Phone” plan, now on trial in Seattle and Dallas. It uses a dual mode cellphone that hands off to WiFi at home. Calls transition from your cellphone to the hotspot for unlimited calling.
You’ll need a broadband connection at home and a WiFi router, of course. [...]
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