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Archive for April, 2008

iPhone as Surveillence Camera

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 2008

The iPhone can be turned into a video monitor, says SHAPE Services which announced the release of Mobiscope for Apple iPhone today.
It can monitor office activities in real time, watch over children, aged relatives or pets. Mobiscope says it can remotely view and manage the security at home or office and alert on motion detection. [...]

Mac OS on OQO?

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 2008

Engadget says the tiny OQO hand held computer has been successfully hacked to run Masc OS X Leopard.

The OQO is setup in a dual-boot Vista / OS X mode which boots Leopard in about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. It has WiFi, sound, power management and Bluetooth. The only thing missing at the moment [...]

White Spaces: Now It’s GE

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 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

Medical device manufacturers now fear using unused television channels (”white spaces”) to [...]

Hacking EyeFi for Linux

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

Matt Westervelt (of Seattle Wireless and Metrix fame), got an Eeepc and a Eye-Fi card for his Nikon.

I’ve been able to cut down the weight I carry every day without losing much functionality. One thing that I have been missing however, is the ability to configure my Eye-Fi card for random networks that I [...]

Mobile WiMAX Cooking- But Still in the Kitchen

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

It’s impossible to predict the fate of Xohm, says Popular Mechanics. But it’s happening — for better or worse. WiMAX, at least in its fixed iteration, is a done deal.
Alvarion boasts over 200 commercial WiMAX deployments worldwide. Alcatel-Lucent is participating in more than 70 trials and deployments of WiMax technology around the world while [...]

Broadband 2.0

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

When homes get 50-100 Mbps, a slew of high-definition content, better-quality video-sharing sites and even 3-D video will be enabled. Call it Broadband 2.0, says Wired.

Experts say this increased bandwidth — when it becomes widely available — will have a profound effect on everything from our social interactions on the web to the way we [...]

New iMacs Announced

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

Apple today updated its all-in-one iMac line with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and the most powerful graphics ever available in an iMac. The new iMacs include faster processors with 6MB L2 cache and a faster 1066 MHz front-side bus across the entire line, and 2GB of memory standard in most models.
A [...]

Netgear Dual Band “N” for Enterprise

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

NETGEAR today announced the launch of the ProSafe 802.11n Dual Band Wireless Access Point (WND AP330), a dual-band wireless solution for small and medium businesses.
NETGEAR says its ProSafe 802.11n Dual Band device delivers up to 10 times the coverage and 15 times the speed of 802.11g-based networks, supporting devices based upon the 5GHz 802.11a and [...]

Wireless 10GigE

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

MRV Communications, a provider of WDM and optical transport, metro Ethernet, and fiber optic components, today announced the TereScope TS-10GE, the industry’s first wireless 10-Gigabit Ethernet system.
The system will make its public debut at Interop, which runs from April 27 – May 2 in Las Vegas. The system has already been named a “Best of [...]

ICO Deploys 40 Foot Antenna

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

ICO G1, the largest commercial satellite launched to date, today announced the successful deployment of the ICO G1 satellite’s large antenna reflector.
ICO G1 will deliver mobile interactive media services, like mobile video, interactive navigation and emergency communications services to consumers. The Harris antenna reflector enables the ICO satellite to focus 2 GHz S-band signals on [...]