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Lexar Wi-Fi Memory Card

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 19th, 2008

The Lexar Shoot-n-Sync Wi-Fi Memory Card utilizes the same wireless technology that Eye-Fi introduced earlier this year. The $99 card, which won’t be available until next month, appears to be pretty much a clone of the $99 Eye-Fi card.
It is compatible with SD-enabled digital cameras, and stores photos like a standard memory card. The [...]

Tracking al-Qaeda

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 8th, 2008

Radio-Frequency Identification has been around for a while. Wikipedia says that in 1946 Léon Theremin invented an espionage tool for the Soviet Union which retransmitted incident radio waves with audio information.
Now RF-ID is everywhere. Pet owners began putting chips in their dogs and cats years ago. Implanting RFID chips in passports and driver’s licenses [...]

Dell Netbook: Bundled with 3G

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 5th, 2008

Dell’s new netbook, the Inspiron Mini 9 ($399), will be sold with built-in mobile broadband by Vodafone for HSPA access in the UK, the companies announced on Thursday.
For now its “in key European markets”. Vodafone is a part owner in Verizon. No announcement of a partnership with U.S. carriers has been announced (yet), but speculation [...]

Smart Cards: Dumb?

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 2nd, 2008

According to Engadget, Mythbusters was all set to do a show exposing the weak security behind most RFID implementations of Smart Cards, but was shut down by lawyers from “American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else… [who] absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode.”

Since Discovery [...]

Nikon D-90 Gets Eye-Fi Control

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 27th, 2008

Eye-Fi’s SD memory cards come with built-in WiFi, allowing ordinary cameras to transmit photos over nearby WiFi hotspots. But WiFi drains the battery, so the ability to turn the wireless feature on and off is a much desired feature.
Today Eye-Fi announced they have collaborated Nikon to deliver enhanced integration of the Eye-Fi wireless memory [...]

Mitsubishi Gets Wireless HD Interface

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 21st, 2008

Amimon has been selected by Mitsubishi to offer a High-Definition LCD TV for the Japanese market with an integrated HD wireless link.
The Mitsubishi product will come embedded with Amimon’s wireless technology, capable of delivering uncompressed HD video streams wirelessly. The wireless HDTV is a two-piece system comprised of a slim and thin LCD [...]

Nine Wireless Companies to Watch

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 15th, 2008

Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam.

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 [...]

Intel Dedicated Graphics Chip

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 4th, 2008

Intel today announced the first technical details of a new family of dedicated chips, code-named Larrabee, that will be available in late 2009 or early 2010. Intel is releasing the details of its plans ahead of the Siggraph industry conference in Los Angeles, which starts Aug. 11. It will compete directly with Nvidia and ATI [...]

More HDTV Homenet Chips

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 30th, 2008

Celeno Communications, a startup designing a variant of Wi-Fi chips geared for video, has closed a $16 million funding round led by Cisco Systems, reports EE Times.
Celeno is currently sampling a 5 GHz chip set for carrying video at distances up to 120 feet, according to the company. The new funding will help the company [...]

WHDI: Angling for Wireless HD

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 23rd, 2008

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 [...]