Startup Ozmo unveiled a chip and software that utilizes WiFi for faster, cheaper connections than Bluetooth, says EE Times.
The company plans to offer peripheral makers a stripped-down, dual-band 802.11 chip that has a 10-meter range and sells for about the same price as a Bluetooth chip. It could be used in media players like [...]
Pulse~LINK, in a battle with the incompatible WiMedia standard for a defacto Ultra Wideband (UWB) communications standard, announced today that its recently released CWave UWB chipset is the fastest UWB solution and is well positioned to emerge as the 21st century architecture for full-home multimedia connectivity.
The independent UWB test results (pdf), published in this [...]
DisplayLink and Alereon today jointly announced the availability of a reference design for a Wireless USB display adapter that allows PCs to connect to nearby standard displays without wires, notes Wi-Fi Planet
High-performance Hardware Rendering Engine (HRE) display chips power 32-bit true-color graphics with real-time video playback across a USB link.
The reference design enables PC [...]
The 2007 Bluetooth Evolution Conference, in London, October 31st and November 1st, 2007 has produced some fireworks. Representatives of mobile phone manufacturers poured cold water over ultrawideband (UWB) for handsets, reports a UK magazine, Computeractive.
John Barr, director of standards at Motorola, said Wifi was more likely to be used for fast data transfers in the [...]
Since most electronic devices already use power outlets, the HomePlug Alliance was formed to interconnect devices in the home using AC wiring.
The HomePlug Powerline Alliance today announced that more than 40 products have passed its HomePlug AV compliance and interoperability testing. Their interoperability testing ensures that different vendors’ products will interoperate.
HomePlug AV provides [...]
Twelve Ultra Wide Band (UWB) platforms, supplied by chipmakers and system designers, were certified by the WiMedia Alliance this week.
The twelve companies have successfully completed both phases of the Alliance’s compliance and interoperability testing, paving the way for the introduction of WiMedia-based end-user devices in the personal computing, consumer electronics and mobile device [...]
Grape Networks, a company specializing in the wireless sensor monitoring of vineyard microclimates and sensor canopy management on the Internet, announced that the company has established sales offices in Germany and France, reports Wireless Sensor Networks Blog.
Since Grape Networks’ inception four years ago, the company has been dominating the vineyard marketplace for the wireless sensor [...]
The first notebooks with embedded Wireless USB, Dell’s Inspiron 1720 and Lenovo’s ThinkPad T61 and T62p were announced this week, enabling cable-free connections to Certified Wireless USB hubs from D-Link and IOGear to eliminate USB cords.
Another version is available in Toshiba’s Wireless UWB Port Replicator, available on three configurations of Portégé R400 series (right). [...]
Alereon is releasing the a wireless USB chip that conforms to the WiMedia standard. The AL4000 from the Austin, Texas-based chip designer, will reportedly be the first “wireless usb” chipset to reach the consumer market. The first device to use it is expected to be a wireless USB hub that communicates wirelessly to a dongle [...]
Ultra Wideband (UWB) which operates in the 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz spectrum at up to 480Mbps has achieved standards status by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Ecma International who signed off on ECMA-368, ECMA-369, and ISO/IEC 26907, forming the basis for Wireless USB.
WiMedia’s ultra wideband technology could some day eliminate a rat’s nest of [...]
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