With (affordable) WiMAX around the corner, I’m looking at Netbooks and Laptops. I favor cheap and small Netbooks, but built-in WiMAX on Centrino 2 laptops would be nice.
The Gigabyte M912M tablet (reviewed by UMPC Portal’s Steve Paine) looks slick. Pop in a WiMAX Express Modem ($59) and you’re good to go. Unfortunately, it’s [...]
The Washington Post reports that in Sprint Nextel’s unveiling of its new Xohm WiMax service in Baltimore, it also revealed rules for using its service.
At question is Sprint’s Acceptable Use and Network Management Policy. In their usage policy statement, Sprint warns against usage that could “result in an excessive burden of system or network [...]
NextWave Wireless, which managed to squander most it’s wealth in a few short years, said it will discontinue the operations of its GO Networks unit, which developed wide area Wi-Fi network equipment with beamforming.
NextWave, which two weeks ago received a much-needed commitment of $100 million in debt financing, filed a request in Israel to seek [...]
SanDisk and four major music companies announced today a new format called slotMusic which puts an album, plus extras, on a compact memory card. It can be played on mobile phones, PCs and portable MP3 players. The cards are inserted into vacant slots on phones and other devices. Included with every purchase is a USB [...]
I don’t know who gave the green light on those ill-conceived Microsoft commercials with Jerry Seinfeld, but it looks like Microsoft got their game back with these.
Microsoft got the message — it’s about the users.
Here’s another nice piece of public relations with a human face — Lenovo’s Voices of the Olympics which provided 100 [...]
“Today, 13 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute”, writes Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-Founder, YouTube, “and we believe the volume will continue to grow exponentially.”
Our goal is to allow every person on the planet to participate by making the upload process as simple as placing a phone call. This new video content [...]
The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones asks What’s the best way of using new media tools to cover a news event?
I decided to try out various options at Apple’s music event on Tuesday evening - not a major story, so a good venue for a bit of experimentation.
I took a laptop with a 3g dongle for instant [...]
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 [...]
The WiMAX Forum has announced the launch of their Interactive Deployment Database, which has information on more than 300 WiMAX deployments around the world.
The new Interactive Deployment Database relies upon the WCIS database offered by Informa Telecoms, and focuses upon various WiMAX operators, providing the readers with the latest data regarding the WiMAX deployments. A [...]
Abilene Christian University, in Albilene, Texas, will hand out Apple’s iPhone 3G to two-thirds of this year’s entering class of 950 freshmen.
Students will be expected to use the devices to brainstorm ideas and get virtual handouts and podcasts during class while instructors will use them for such tasks as monitoring attendance.
“This is a [...]
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