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Network World’s article Nine wireless companies to watch, focuses on products and services that can impact corporate computing. What topped their list? RedFly from Celio.
Redfly Makes Your Smartphone a Laptop. It’s a smartphone terminal, not unlike the ill-fated Palm Folio, with an eight-inch screen and full keyboard. It enables [...]
Picture Phoning [via Engadget] says Walkers have swallowed RFID pills for science:
Researchers at Radboud University in The Netherlands were able to monitor the body temperature of participants at the world’s largest marching event using RFID technology. Volunteer participants in the annual Four Days Marches of Nijmegen swallowed an RFID-based temperature sensor that measured their [...]
Today Amimon, Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony announced the formation of the WHDI working group with the goal of establishing the WHDI standard for Wireless HDTV connections. The group’s intention is to complete the new standard in 2008.
WHDI operates in the 5GHz unlicensed band (FAQ) to enable robust wireless delivery of “uncompressed” HD video [...]
My Home 2.0 does some surgery on teddy bear. The result: a real-time Twittering, talking, live-streaming social media phenomenon. They worked with a team at the Drexel Music and Entertainment Technology Lab to develop Teddy’s text-to-speech software.
How 2.0: How to Make a Twittering Teddy Bear from My Home 2.0 DIY on Vimeo.
Text-to-speech software on your [...]
Startup Ozmo unveiled a chip and software that utilizes WiFi for faster, cheaper connections than Bluetooth, says EE Times.
The company plans to offer peripheral makers a stripped-down, dual-band 802.11 chip that has a 10-meter range and sells for about the same price as a Bluetooth chip. It could be used in media players like [...]
The Internet Engineering Task Force has kicked off a new effort that could deliver a key building block for wireless sensor networks, says EE Times. The Routing Over Low-power and Lossy Networks (ROLL) group aims to define a standard for Internet Protocol as early as next summer.
Sensor networks may be the next big thing. Companies [...]
WiFi Planet reviews the $399 Wi-Spy 2.4x, an inexpensive spectrum analyzer that can check on common interference from devices like cordless phones, microwaves, and other WiFi and Bluetooth devices.
The Wi-Spy 2.4x from Metageek consists of both a hardware and a software component. A USB dongle — no bigger than a Flash memory drive -— [...]
The Qwest Foundation today announced a grant of $10,000 to Cascade Middle School teacher Scott Weide. The funds will allow Weide to purchase new technology so that his students will be able to determine Olson Creek’s viability for salmon habitat.
“In my vision, students are outside, scientifically observing their local community, recording observations digitally, formulating ideas [...]
Actsoft, a small Tampa company, can tell you exactly where The Pope is. They’re tracking the papal entourage using GPS-enabled cell phones as the pope travels through New York (pdf).
Sprint’s Direct Connect phones will be used. The walkie-talkie like phones can be recognized by the chirp which indicates someone is trying to contact [...]
Nokia officially announced the WiMAX-capable N810 Tablet today. Nokia says it can deliver typical data download speeds of up to 2-4 Mbps per user with peak download speeds of up to 10 Mbps.
The WiMAXed N810 (Nokia podcast), features an integrated media player with Flash 9 on the browser, 2 GB of internal memory, [...]
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