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Open Warfare: Android Vrs Symbian

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2008

Google said today that it has released the code behind the Android operating system as open source, a day before the Android-based T-Mobile G1 phone is scheduled to go on sale.

The Open Handset Alliance includes some 34-members including phone manufacturers like HTC, Motorola, Samsung, LG Electronics and recently Kyocera and carriers like T-Mobile, Sprint [...]

WhereCampPDX Unconference

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 17th, 2008

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 [...]

G1 Reviews

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 16th, 2008

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 [...]

White Spaces: Green Light from FCC Report

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 15th, 2008

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 [...]

Trapeze Networks: Big MAN in China

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 14th, 2008

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 [...]

SpecEx.com: E-Bay for Licensed Spectrum

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 14th, 2008

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: Car Sensor Does Route Planning

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 10th, 2008

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 [...]

Handheld Intelligent Transportation

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 9th, 2008

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 [...]

Brokering of Maritime Frequencies

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 7th, 2008

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 [...]

Six Mobile Developers to Watch

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 6th, 2008

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 [...]