China Mobile, one of the Olympic sponsors, has built TD-SCDMA networks in six key Olympic host cites, notes Market Watch.
The Olympic handsets feature dual mode GSM/TD-SCDMA standards and come with chips for satellite TV, using China’s Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting. It’s similar to Europe’s DVB-SH standard for digital video broadcast. It uses both satellites and [...]
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The Olympic flame arrived in Beijing Tuesday, August 5. The last torchbearer lit the fire cauldron at the historic Temple of Heaven in Beijing, marking the beginning of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing (NBC Olympics, NY Times Event Tracker, Sound Slides, Gigapixel images and Olympic Theme, MP-3).
The Opening Ceremony of the [...]
Now that the satellite radio merger between Sirius and XM is nearly a done deal, satellite tv competitors Dish Network (13 million customers) and DirectTV (16.32 million subscribers), are weighing another attempt to merge, says The Wall Street Journal (on-line edition).
No formal proposal has been made, notes Reuters, but Dish executives and DirecTV representatives have [...]
Guido: Could you choose one single thing, and be faithful to it? Could you make it the one thing that gives your life meaning… just because you believe in it? Could you do that?”
Claudia: I don’t know… could you?”
Guido: No, the character I’m thinking of couldn’t. He wants to possess and devour everything. He can’t [...]
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is developing a pilot project to broadcast CNN at Long Island Rail Road or subway stations. The service should be available as early as next year.
CNN has agreed to outfit six stations systemwide with the screens, and to foot the bill, over the next 12 to 18 months. It’s similar [...]
Harbinger Capital today offered to front Skyterra $500 million to launch two satellites, says GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham. The private equity firm is also planning to push for a deal to acquire Inmarsat, according to Higginbotham. Harbinger already owns 28.8 percent of Inmarsat’s stock.
Harbinger is apparently confident that the FCC will look favorably on [...]
DARPA wants to electronically RFID tag US combat soldiers so they can then be swiftly found and rescued if they get into trouble.
The “Individual Force Protection System“, is being pursued by contractor Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).
According to this presentation (pdf), given last year by DARPA officials, IFPS would consist of a small, three-inch [...]
Nearly 4 billion years ago, much of the surface of Mars was like a soppy carpet. The planet was covered by a thick atmosphere, and it was warm but not exactly picturesque. Those conditions, an international team of three dozen scientists has concluded, could have supported primitive forms of life.
However, over time — some 800 [...]
DISH Network got lucky in the early hours of Wednesday after a successful launch of its EchoStar XI broadcast satellite from Boeing’s Sea Launch platform in the Pacific.
DISH, the second-largest U.S. satellite TV operator, needs to roll out more HD channels to be able to compete with larger rival DIRECTV, as well as cable and [...]
Aircell which delivers WiFi on airplanes, via its Gogo service, today announced its intention to base its airplane-to-ground link on Long Term Evolution (LTE).
Aircell uses an exclusive FCC frequency license to provide a cellular data channel to airplanes. It currently uses CDMA EVDO Rev A to deliver an effective data rate of more than [...]
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