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The $199 iPhone?

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 30th, 2008

AT&T is planning to cut the price of Apple’s new iPhone to $199, say a variety of news reports. According to Fortune:
AT&T is preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of a new iPhone, bringing the price down to $199 for customers who sign two-year contracts, the source says. Apple is expected to have two [...]

WiFi Shirt & Watch

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 2008

Looking for a fashion accessory for your WiFi detecting T-Shirt ($29.95)? Look no more.

The WiFi detecting watch is a discreet alternative. At the touch of a button, it will reveal the strength of local WiFi connections, so you can select the best location from which to hook up. And it’s with you at all [...]

iPhone as Surveillence Camera

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 2008

The iPhone can be turned into a video monitor, says SHAPE Services which announced the release of Mobiscope for Apple iPhone today.
It can monitor office activities in real time, watch over children, aged relatives or pets. Mobiscope says it can remotely view and manage the security at home or office and alert on motion detection. [...]

Mac OS on OQO?

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 2008

Engadget says the tiny OQO hand held computer has been successfully hacked to run Masc OS X Leopard.

The OQO is setup in a dual-boot Vista / OS X mode which boots Leopard in about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. It has WiFi, sound, power management and Bluetooth. The only thing missing at the moment [...]

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 [...]

Hacking EyeFi for Linux

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

Matt Westervelt (of Seattle Wireless and Metrix fame), got an Eeepc and a Eye-Fi card for his Nikon.

I’ve been able to cut down the weight I carry every day without losing much functionality. One thing that I have been missing however, is the ability to configure my Eye-Fi card for random networks that I [...]

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 [...]

ASIMO Conducts Symphony Orchestra

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 24th, 2008

Honda’s humanoid robot is slated to conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on May 13.

The ASIMO robot will conduct the orchestra, which will perform the classic song “Impossible Dream.”

DigiWall from the Interactive Institute looks like a traditional climbing-wall but it’s actually a computer game you climb upon.

Affordable Spectrum Analyzer

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 23rd, 2008

WiFi Planet reviews the $399 Wi-Spy 2.4x, an inexpensive spectrum analyzer that can check on common interference from devices like cordless phones, microwaves, and other WiFi and Bluetooth devices.
The Wi-Spy 2.4x from Metageek consists of both a hardware and a software component. A USB dongle — no bigger than a Flash memory drive -— [...]

MuniFi Roundup

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 21st, 2008

Municipal Wi-Fi is dead says John Cox in a large review in Network World. At least in terms of the model whereby cities award an exclusive contract to a service provider and hopes to make money selling broadband to consumers.
But municipal Wi-Fi is also alive and well in a variety of other incarnations, including municipally [...]