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Clearwire: Let’s be “Clear”

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 1st, 2008

I want him to know how to holler and put up an argument, I want a little guts to show before I can let him go. I want to be sure he sees all the wild possibilities. I want him to know it’s worth all the trouble just to give the world a little goosing [...]

Singapore Launches Femtocell Service

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 28th, 2008

StarHub, Singapore’s second-largest mobile operator, and the sole cable TV provider in Singapore, has launched ‘Home Zone’, the world’s first commercially-available 3G femtocell service.
StarHub’s Home Zone service costs S$16.05 (US$10.62) per month with a 1-year contract. Users must also have a mobile-phone and broadband Internet accounts with StarHub for the service to work.

A [...]

Vehicle Tracking Saves Money

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2008

Wireless Week says technology companies such as TeleNav and WebTech Wireless have seen a jump in revenue because of enterprise interest in using location-based services (LBS) and telematics services.
WebTech, which has headquarters in Vancouver, Canada, reported a 36% increase in year-over-year revenue through July.
Home Depot is using TeleNav Track to monitor its home [...]

Mercedes myCOMAND

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2008

At the LA Auto Show, Mercedes showed off their Web-Connected myComand, which takes on BMW’s iDrive.
One big difference is that myCOMAND is connected to the web, grabbing information wirelessly and presenting it through their own on-screen apps, explains Gizmodo.

It features:

Off-board navigation: The GPS is constantly updated, from the maps to the points of interests. [...]

Verizon’s Blackberry Storm

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 20th, 2008

On Friday, Verizon will offer the BlackBerry Storm — a touchscreen-based handset for $250 with a two-year contract. It’s Verizon’s answer to the iPhone, featuring a touchscreen, a 3.2-MP camera and UMTS/HSPA connectivity (but no Wi-Fi). A $50 mail-in rebate will bring the cost inline with Apple’s entry-level offering.
The BlackBerry Storm is a [...]

Wireless Flash Triggers

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 19th, 2008

I follow The Strobist, a blog about using speedlights, by photographer David Hobby. He works for the Baltimore Sun. I admired a photo of a Xohm technician shot in Baltimore without realizing he shot the picture. Here’s how it was done:

In a situation like this, shooting in manual is probably gonna make more sense than [...]

Nokia Backs China’s TD-SCDMA

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 19th, 2008

Nokia today reaffirmed its commitment to TD-SCDMA at the Mobile Asia Congress in Macau this week.
“Nokia firmly supports the development of TD-SCDMA”, said Colin Giles, President of Nokia China. “Our goal is to not only develop TD-SCDMA products that can deliver outstanding user experiences to consumers, but also to work with operators, chipset providers, developers [...]

White Spaces: It’s The Law

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 18th, 2008

Today the FCC released their Second Report and Order (pdf) adopting rules for “white space” access points. It will allow unlicensed radio transmitters to operate in the broadcast television spectrum where that spectrum is not being used by licensed services.
The rules will allow for both higher power (4 watt) fixed and lower power (up [...]

One Laptop: GoGo 2.0

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 17th, 2008

The nonprofit One Laptop Per Child is launching an advertising campaign that seeks to sharply increase their penetration, reports the NY Times. Television time, billboard space and magazine pages are being donated by media companies, including the News Corporation, CBS and Time Warner.
About 500,000 OLPC laptops are being used in 31 countries, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, [...]

Change: Wheeler & Hundt Inside

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 13th, 2008

Barack Obama hasn’t even appointed a chief technology officer yet, but thousands of people are using a new Web site to suggest and vote on ideas they think his CTO should work on.
Obama has called for tax and loan incentives to spur construction of broadband networks. He wants to divert some of the $7 billion [...]