The 2007 Bluetooth Evolution Conference, in London, October 31st and November 1st, 2007 has produced some fireworks. Representatives of mobile phone manufacturers poured cold water over ultrawideband (UWB) for handsets, reports a UK magazine, Computeractive.
John Barr, director of standards at Motorola, said Wifi was more likely to be used for fast data transfers in the [...]
Nokia today introduced the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. It is expected to start shipping mid November with an estimated retail price of 479 USD. Powered by maemo Linux based OS2008, updatable also on the Nokia N800, their previous internet tablet.
According to Extreme Tech, the N810 has a web cam, media player (including Rhapsody support), [...]
Well, sure it’s not cheap. But the $700 Nokia N95 adds HSDPA to the party for U.S. consumption at 850MHz and 1900MHz. It comes with a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, assisted GPS with Nokia Maps, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and integrated Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi.
Nokia’s N95 (video) features larger capacity battery (1,200mAh [...]
Grape Networks, a company specializing in the wireless sensor monitoring of vineyard microclimates and sensor canopy management on the Internet, announced that the company has established sales offices in Germany and France, reports Wireless Sensor Networks Blog.
Since Grape Networks’ inception four years ago, the company has been dominating the vineyard marketplace for the wireless sensor [...]
DEFCON 15 will be held August 4th through 6th, 2007. WiFi Planet has a good review on some of the activities:
Dozens of DEFCON speakers are scheduled to officially present new hacker tools and exploits. Many of those sessions focus on wireless vulnerabilities and the damage they can do. For example:
The Church of Wi-Fi, which will [...]
Timex’s Ironman collection, now provides wirelessly remote control of an iPod. The $125 watch includes the following features:
iPod controls : Play/Pause, Volume Up/Down, Track Forward/Back
50-lap memory recall chronograph
Training log stores current workout with date, best lap and average lap
Multi-mode countdown timer
2 interval timers for speed and endurance training
3 customizable alarms [...]
Along the Deerfield River in western Massachusetts, engineers and biologists are using a wireless network to track snapping turtles — a species they worry may be headed for decline as land development shrinks their habitat.
TurtleNet, funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, records and stores information, then transmits data from one device to another. [...]
Motes, those tiny, low-powered sensor devices just got smaller. Moteiv, a San Francisco startup, recently introduced Tmote Mini, the smallest device yet. It fits in the MiniSD slot and can be incorporated in stationary network nodes, phones or PDAs.
The Tmote Mini comes standard with a temperature sensor, but includes hooks for connecting [...]
The behind the Bluetooth consortium, today announced that Nokia’s Wibree, a low-power, short range wireless standard, will merge with the Bluetooth standard.
Nokia, the world’s largest maker of cell phones, says Wibree can transmit data at 1 Mbps from distances of up to 30 feet, similar to Bluetooth, but some ten times more efficient. [...]
Palm today announced a smart phone companion product today called Foleo. The Foleo will connect via Bluetooth to a Treo device running either the Palm operating system or Windows Mobile. It has a relatively large screen and full-sized keyboard to help users edit e-mail and office documents.
It delivers web access with your smartphone or WiFi [...]
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