Jason Brown, a Portland developer, was often foiled by the bus-arrival estimates generated by TriMet’s TransitTracker, reports the Oregonian’s transit columnist Joseph Rose. Inspired by real-time transit maps, like the SF Live Bus app and accompanying website in San Francisco, the 23-year-old Portland web developer has created PDXLiveBus, “the coolest real-time TriMet map in the [...]
Qualcomm’s chief technology officer, Mat Grob, pitched the idea of small, private cellular base stations this week, showing a base station small enough to be integrated into a set top box or home router. “There really is no alternative,”said Matt Grob, Qualcomm’s CTO, during a presentation at the Qualcomm On conference in Santa Clara, California. [...]
The White House announced today a broad new research initiative to invent and refine new technologies to understand the human brain, investing $100 million starting in 2014. The BRAIN Initiative — short for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies — builds on the President’s State of the Union call for historic investments in research and [...]
Waterloo Ontario-based D-Wave Systems has announced a free online shopping service called Free-Wave. It’s similar to Amazon, except all the merchandise is free. Users pay only a modest shipping fee. Free shopping will be available to individuals and non-profits world-wide, with a net worth of less than $1000. They can purchase up to $10,000 in [...]
Ibiquity and the WiMax Forum have announced the formation of a “5G” task group that will bring WiMax to AM radio. Using the AM broadcasting band enables WiMax to take advantage of “skywave” propagation, covering hundreds of miles at night. Using the medium wave band, from 531 kHz – 1,611 kHz, AM radio was the [...]
Range Networks formally introduced today its executive management team to deliver a complete open source software version of the cellular system. Range Networks says it is the world’s leading provider of American-made commercial open source cellular systems and is slashing the cost to own and operate mobile networks. Range can build the core of a [...]
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