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Nextwave: Buy Low, Sell High

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 2008

NextWave plans to sell its U.S. wireless spectrum, ending all pretensions of becoming a mobile operator and allowing the carrier-turned-vendor to focus exclusively on its multi-faceted equipment and software businesses, says Telephony Magazine.
NextWave has hired a pair of financial consultants, Deutsche Bank and UBS Investment Bank, to find a buyer for its 223 licenses divided [...]

Earthlink Shutting Down New Orleans WiFi Net

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 2008

New Orleans is about to lose its municipal Wi-Fi network as EarthLink plans to halt its participation in the citywide project on May 18, reports InfoWorld and the Times Picayune.

First, EarthLink tried to sell the network outright. Second, it sought to transfer ownership of the network to the city of New Orleans. Finally, it tried [...]

White Spaces: Now It’s GE

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 2008

Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes…
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
– Ghost Busters

Medical device manufacturers now fear using unused television channels (”white spaces”) to [...]

Broadband 2.0

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

When homes get 50-100 Mbps, a slew of high-definition content, better-quality video-sharing sites and even 3-D video will be enabled. Call it Broadband 2.0, says Wired.

Experts say this increased bandwidth — when it becomes widely available — will have a profound effect on everything from our social interactions on the web to the way we [...]

New iMacs Announced

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

Apple today updated its all-in-one iMac line with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and the most powerful graphics ever available in an iMac. The new iMacs include faster processors with 6MB L2 cache and a faster 1066 MHz front-side bus across the entire line, and 2GB of memory standard in most models.
A [...]

The Platform

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 24th, 2008

So, here we are on your actual brink. My agency’s going to become a part of the military, I’ve got a president with his finger poised on the button, and you want me to walk across the park and tell him we want to hitch a ride with those very same Russians. Have I missed [...]

Live Mesh

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 23rd, 2008

Microsoft launched Live Mesh for developers on Tuesday (videos and other coverage). Microsoft says “cloud computing“, where resources and applications are stored and accessed on the internet, not a PC, will be a significant new way of interacting with the “web connected” world.
Ray Ozzie outlined three principles of Live Mesh Tuesday. Chief among those is [...]

Centrino 2 Preview

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 10th, 2008

The Centrino 2 platform, codenamed Montevina, an upgrade to Intel’s current Centrino platform, is due this June.
But Australian PC maker, Pioneer Computers, has an early preview with its DreamBook Style 9008 Centrino 2 laptop. The laptop features a 45-nanometer Penryn processor and combined Wi-Fi and WiMax capabilities.
Pioneer is offering both capabilities as options with [...]

T-Moble Slashes iPhone Cost

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 4th, 2008

T-Mobile has slashed its price in Germany for Apple’s iPhone to 99 euros ($155) from 399 euros ahead of the expected launch of a new model, reports Reuters
In an offer posted on Friday on its Website, T-Mobile said it would sell the 8 gigabyte version for as little as 99 euros together with a two-year [...]

Go2 Netbook: $400 at Amazon

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 3rd, 2008

Intel says their new Netbook, the 2go PC, will soon be available for sale to the general public through Amazon for $400 and at other outlets like CompUSA and Fred Meyers. The 2go PC will be shipping beginning mid May.

“Only 5 percent of the world’s children today have access to a PC or to the [...]