Globalstar, the LEO-based satphone service, today announced that the U.S. FCC has issued an Order and Authorization modifying Globalstar’s authority to offer Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) services in the United States. This modification permits Globalstar’s spectrum to be used to deploy wireless WiMAX services to over 500 rural American communities that currently do not have [...]
After failing to find a buyer for its Nextel cellphone unit, Sprint Nextel Corp. said Thursday it will hold on to the Nextel and renew their long-term partnership with Motorola, reports the WS Journal.
“The iDEN network is a key differentiator for Sprint, as it allows us to offer products and services no other [...]
Intel has signed an agreement with the Taiwan ministry of economic affairs to jointly establish a centre for open-source software and applications. It’s intended to stimulate development of WiMax client devices based on Moblin, the open-source development environment for the Intel Atom processor.
Announcing the deal on Thursday in Taiwan, Intel president and chief executive Paul [...]
AT&T’s new website says FREE AT&T Wi-Fi access is now available for Apple iPhone at thousands of hotspots nationwide, including Starbucks. More than 17,000 locations, including most Starbucks are now available to the Wi-Fi equipped iPhone.
To get started with AT&T Wi-Fi on an iPhone:
Activate Wi-Fi from the settings icon on your iPhone
Select “attwifi” from the [...]
RF Design Line has added a tutorial; Understanding 802.11n.
When a system needs to support multiple users, “multiple access” techniques must be used to divide the communications resources. There are several standard techniques commonly used for multiple access. The first technique uses time division multiple access (TDMA), where all users share the same frequency, but [...]
Mike Boyd, who provided free public WiFi access at Portland’s Waterfront Blues Festival this summer, has delivered on his threat — to “unwire” downtown Hillsboro, Oregon.
Mike has purchased a dozen Meraki access points and repeaters and is talking with business and property owners about providing free public WiFi. Now he’s got about ten sponsors.
Blake Wellington, [...]
Peplink just launched two new products in its Balance line of multi-WAN routers, the Balance 20L and Balance 390, for end users and Wireless Internet Service Providers.
The Balance 20L is an affordable dual-WAN router designed for home users. It can aggregate wireless long-haul into a fat pipe. Advanced load balancing distributes traffic to different [...]
You don’t have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate. – Religiosity
U.S. broadcasters, which are given spectrum between 54MHz to 700 MHz free (for “public service”), have now conscripted a variety of Congressional leaders to stop “white spaces” legislation that would allow internet access on the unused television frequencies. The NAB says [...]
LAFD’s One-Man Geek Squad Brings Web 2.0 to Firefighting, says Wired Magazine.
From a decommissioned bomb shelter four stories beneath Los Angeles City Hall, Brian Humphrey, a 23-year veteran is single-handedly hauling the city’s fire department into the Web 2.0 era. He has about 80 projects in the works—involving everything from Twitter to BlogTalkRadio—that will not [...]
National Public Radio’s “Election 2008” coverage will offer nine hours of live streaming and multimedia capabilities on November 4, from 8:00PM to 5:00AM (ET). The network will have reporters positioned with the campaigns and in more than two dozen sites around the country.
NPR’s coverage of the general election will include live streaming, blogging, interactive [...]
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