Floridians are urged to prepare an emergency communications plan for the 2008 hurricane season which begins in June. Verizon Wireless offers these tips:
Keep wireless phone batteries fully charged – in case local power is lost – well before warnings are issued.
Have additional charged batteries and car-charger adapters available for back-up power.
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Intel has delayed the next generation “Montevina chipset until mind-July, with a formal launch in mid-August says PC Magazine. “Montevina” is the next-generation Centrino chipset, used in laptops and will include enhanced wireless capabilities with WiMAX and 802.11n.
The new laptop design was originally expected to be launched in a week. Montevina-based notebooks will be known [...]
Via Technologies released the hardware design for a low-cost laptop with WiMax support under an open-source license on Tuesday, says the NY Times. It’s intended to make customization easier and shorten design time.
The CAD files for the OpenBook reference design can be downloaded for free. They’re made available to anyone under the Creative Commons Attribution [...]
Canada’s government has launched an auction of wireless spectrum on Tuesday, reports Reuters, that will allow new players to break into the cellular phone market in the AWS band (1.7/2.1 GHz).
A total of 105 MHz of AWS radio spectrum will be open for bidding (map), which includes 40 MHz of AWS spectrum specifically set [...]
A Dutch company and its British partner claims their WiFi access gear can to do most of what WiMax promises for a fraction of the cost, says TechWorld. The technology, called InspiAir, though, Dutch distributor KMC Systems has acquired the worldwide sales rights, renaming it Max-Fi.
“It’s not bumping up the power - it’s standard 802.11 [...]
Train Communications 2008 will be held in central London on the 11th and 12th of June 2008, and hosted by technology consultancy BWCS. Train companies from across the globe will discuss the latest developments in train communications systems (pdf brochure).
As Graham Wilde, CEO of BWCS, put it, “This year there has been an unprecedented [...]
While I was goofing off this weekend, others were hard at work, reports Oregon’s best reporter on startups, Rick Turoczy who covered Portland Startup Weekend and WebVisions 2008.
Web Visions, which explores the future of the Web, featured two days of sessions and great speakers (slide presentations).
Jason Grigsby of Mobile Portland, says adoption [...]
The FCC is planning to auction 25 megahertz in the 2155-2180 MHz band to the highest bidder, reports RCR News. Chairman Martin said that a licensee winner of the 2155-2180 MHz spectrum (referred to as the AWS III band), would have to provide a free service tier, and would have to reach 50% of the [...]
Earthscape is building a social geobrowser, says TechCrunch. Users mark choice spots on a virtual globe with stories, photos and travel tips.
This video was shot by Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog. You can fly to favorite places and see what others have shared, and view restaurant reviews, Wikipedia articles, etc.
What are the [...]
Fools! They refuse to believe life exists in meteorites. I showed them at the astrophysics conference what I just showed you. But no! Even with a microscope they are blind!
- The Andromeda Strain
It’s going to be a nice day on Mars when NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander makes its planned touchdown in the northern plains [...]
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