WhereCampPDX, a free conference focusing on all things geographical, is being held at the Souk office center in the Old Town neighborhood of Portland, Oregon on Oct 17-18.
It’s an unconference, modeled after O’Reilly’s WhereCamp and planned by the participants. Everyone gathers together, plans sessions, and have break-outs. It kicks-off with an art opening [...]
On Oct. 22, T-Mobile and Google bring out the G1, the first hand-held computer that’s in the same class as Apple’s iPhone. Just days after going on pre-sale the G1 sold out, which sent T-Mobile scrambling to place more orders.
The amount of units pre-sold is reported to be around 1.5 million. It took 74 [...]
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said today that he will support allowing conditional unlicensed use of the so-called “white spaces” television spectrum. During a press conference, Martin said that he was proposing to let carriers and other vendors deploy devices in white space spectrum which operates unlicensed at powers of 100 milliwatts.
His proposal would also [...]
Confucius: By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. - Up the Yangtze
Trapeze Networks says it has won the Hangzhou Wi-Fi Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) project, the largest Wi-Fi MAN in China. Trapeze Networks will deploy [...]
Spectrum Bridge (FAQ) has been called the eBay of wireless spectrum. The company aims to link buyers and sellers in the secondary spectrum market.
The FCC has granted some licensees the right to unbundle their spectrum. Spectrum owners may resell it to other parties, lease it, or even timeshare it. Spectrum Bridge lets companies find [...]
MIT’s CarTel, a distributed, mobile sensor network and telematics system, combines mapping WiFi access points in the Boston metro area with a Web site that shows all the trips made by a driver and provides interesting ways to visualize one’s trips, individually and collectively.
A small embedded computer, about the size of a cellphone, is [...]
Affiliated Computer Services will design and build an intelligent transportation system for Stamford, Connecticut, under a $4 million contract.
The project will play a critical role in the city’s effort to reduce traffic congestion, said Ann Brown, Stamford’s program manager. “The Transitway will provide commuters with better access to the Stamford Transportation Center, which serves as [...]
Maritime Communications/Land Mobile (MCLM) has entered into an exclusive relationship with Spectrum Bridge to list their VHF spectrum portfolio on SpecEx, an online marketplace for spectrum.
Spectrum Bridge, a privately held Florida company, is creating a real-time online marketplace for radio spectrum. The Company says their online clearinghouse will enable a mass market for [...]
Rick Turoczy’s Oregon-centric Silicon Florist is a must read in these parts. West Coast cities (Seattle, Portland, Bay Area and San Diego) have always been hot beds of mobile development.
But Portland has a large base of Open Source developers (Linus Torvalds lives here), and it has Intel’s largest workforce (some 17,000 people). Soon the [...]
Nokia has just released its 5800 Express Music phone, an “iPhone killer” previously known as “Tube”. The 5800 will be available from a range of telcos, in contrast to the iPhone. It will only be available in Europe, at first.
The Nokia 5800 Express Music phone costs about $390, simfree. Nokia will test the waters [...]
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