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The Next Big Thing: Small

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 28th, 2008

I’mma do the things that I wanna do
I ain’t got a thing to prove to you
I’ll eat my candy with the pork and beans
Excuse my manners if I make a scene
- Weezer

Over 80 technical sessions on OpenSocial, Google App Engine, Android, Google Maps API, Google Web Toolkit, and more were featured at Google I/O, the [...]

Webvision: Mobile Apps, How & Why

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 27th, 2008

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 [...]

Comcast Talks

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 20th, 2008

Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast (press releases), the largest cable operator in the U.S., talked up his company’s investment in the WiMAX joint venture with Sprint and Google, at the industry’s trade show in New Orleans this week, reports C/Net.
Comcast is putting up $1.05 billion as part of the huge Mobile WiMAX deal with Sprint, [...]

WiMAX World EMEA

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 19th, 2008

WiMAX World Europe, May 19-21 (program), will feature 110+ Speakers, 30+ Operators representing 25 countries, and 150+ Sponsors and Exhibitors. It is the longest running, WiMAX and Wireless Broadband exhibition for the entire EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa).

Among the announcements:

The Asus Atom-based Eee PC 901 will NOT be available to consumers with Mobile WiMAX, [...]

Touch Wall

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 14th, 2008

Microsoft’s annual CEO Summit today is bringing 115 CEOs from 26 countries, to Redmond. Bill Gates will demo a new prototype touch computing device called TouchWall and Plex, which envisions a new “Minority Report” type touch screen.

Tech Crunch has more details on the interactive, rear-screen white board.
Yes, it doesn’t have much to [...]

Wireless 10GigE

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

MRV Communications, a provider of WDM and optical transport, metro Ethernet, and fiber optic components, today announced the TereScope TS-10GE, the industry’s first wireless 10-Gigabit Ethernet system.
The system will make its public debut at Interop, which runs from April 27 – May 2 in Las Vegas. The system has already been named a “Best of [...]

FCC Hears Net Neutrality Complaints

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 18th, 2008

Robert Topolski simply wanted to share digital recordings of barber shop quartets with his buddies, says the NY Times.

On Thursday, the Oregon-based software quality engineer who was the first to raise alarms about Comcast’s practice of blocking peer-to-peer file sharing data on the company’s network, testified at an FCC hearing at Stanford University (video [...]

Innotech 2008

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 17th, 2008

DailyWireless posting has been light since we are attending Innotech, a business and technology innovation conference and expo held in Portland this week.
Innotech features 100+ speakers, 90+ technology demos and will have some talks today on wireless networking.
Rick Turoczy who writes the Silicon Florist, a must read in the Silicon Forest, has lots of coverage. [...]

NAB 2008: The Transistion

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 11th, 2008

The National Association of Broadcasters holds their annual convention in Las Vegas next week.

Billed as the world’s largest electronic media event, the annual convention will run from Monday, April 14 through Thursday, April 17. Dozens of Keynotes, hundreds of sessions and more than 1600 exhibitors from 40 countries will vie for the attention of [...]

Samsung Phones Do Media, Dishes

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 1st, 2008

Samsung, the world’s 2nd largest cell phone company (after Nokia), is showcasing several new handsets at CTIA.

The Samsung Soul is a minimalistic, slim design, with a full metal body and 12.9mm-thin form factor. With Magical Touch , navigation indicators on the keypad of the phone change according to the user’s needs, for simple menu navigation. [...]