Boston’s citywide wireless Internet access plan is faltering, notes Boston.com, but a grass-roots effort may step in to provide “bubbles” of service
“We still have very ambitious plans to move this across the whole city,” said Bill Oates, the city’s chief information officer. “But we’re not sure how long it’s going to take or what the [...]
South Korea’s third-biggest mobile service operator, LG Telecom, may offer Google’s Android platform on their 3G phones, LG’s chief executive said on Thursday. “We are using an open platform for our 3G service,” CEO Jung Il-jae told reporters.
The South Korean handset maker said in February it would start selling a model running on Google’s Android [...]
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 [...]
Here’s something sweet [for a change].
Engadget says the Netbook… or 2go PC… will be manufactured by CTL and aimed at the education market.
The 2go features an Intel Celeron M CPU on top of the 915GMS chipset, 512MB of RAM (upgradeable to 1GB), a 9-inch, 800 x 480 LCD display, 40GB hard drive, 802.11b/g, [...]
Verizon Wireless today said its Open Development Device Conference will feature the release and publication of Version 1.0 of the technical specifications for new wireless devices that will work on its “Any Device, Any App” network-only service option.
The conference, being held today, March 19, in New York City, will focus on how consumer electronics [...]
A year ago, the $50 Meraki WiFi repeater looked like a revolution — an ideal solution for bridging the digital divide. Then Meraki Jacked Up the Price and stripped the low cost unit of most of its features (FAQ). The standard edition now doesn’t allow billing, user authentication, access control or a custom splash page. [...]
Tech enthusiasts from HumaniNet, N-TEN, NetSquared.org and One Laptop Per Child News are gathering in Portland, Oregon, today to explore options for emergency communications as well as conversation, technology, and fun. HumaniNet, a non-profit organization that researches and implements telecommunications solutions for NGOs, is sponsoring the free get together.
Wayan Vota of One Laptop Per Child [...]
CarTel is MIT’s distributed, mobile sensor network and telematics research project. Samuel Madden, Hari Balakrishnan, and their team of researchers have been collecting information about roads and their conditions for several years, explains the Boston Globe
The kits, which cost about $450 each, contain global positioning devices and accelerometers, which measure movement in three directions: up/down, [...]
Owners of Windows Mobile 6 smartphones have a new software package that can turn their phone into a mobile hotspot.
Bit-tech explains that the software, WMWifiRouter, is designed to get your laptop online no matter where you are. Any WiFi device can use WMWifiRouter to get online, even multiple devices at once.
WMWifiRouter is still [...]
Intel is pulling out of the One Laptop Per Child program, which it joined in July, reports the NY Times.
The XO PC is based on the freely available Linux operating system and uses an Advanced Micro Devices processor. It is being sold for about $200 apiece to governments and institutions, but both Intel and [...]
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