Links To Wireless News

Brain Interface: New Frontier?

This is MY project! And I don’t want to see it end up on some Defense scrap heap before we know what it’s really about! – Brainstorm The Intendix from Guger Technologies is a system that uses an EEG cap to measure brain activity in order to let you type with your thoughts, reports Engadget. Meant [...]

SXSWi: Where It’s At

Eighteen months ago, neither Gowalla nor Foursquare existed. But their similar “geolocation” mobile apps, which let users “check in” from their smartphones, and share their location with their friends are in aggressive competition at the South by Southwest Conference and Festival, reports C/Net. Austin’s own Gowalla is one of the geoloation leaders, along with Foursquare. Both [...]

Google Apps Marketplace

Today Google announced a business-oriented, cloud-based app store called Google Apps Marketplace. Google says their new online store makes it easier for users and software providers to do business in the cloud by providing integrated business applications. The Google Apps Marketplace allows Google Apps customers to easily discover, deploy and manage cloud applications that integrate [...]

Evernote: Cloud App for Mobile

A lot o’ people don’t realize what’s really going on. They view life as a bunch o’ unconnected incidents ‘n things. They don’t realize that there’s this, like, lattice o’ coincidence that lays on top o’ everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you’re thinkin’ about a plate o’ shrimp. Suddenly [...]

Tablet News

You can’t hold down angels. — The Soloist Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist laid down the law on the changing economics of the newspaper industry at an FTC workshop. Even though online advertising has grown rapidly in the last five years, less than 5% of newspapers’ ad revenue comes from their internet editions, according to [...]

Free Internet Access Proposed by FCC

FCC Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn during a speech at the Digital Inclusion Summit (pdf), suggested that the FCC may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service. The staff has come up with a number of recommendations with these goals in mind. To help with cost, the Plan recommends expanding low income Universal Service support to [...]

SiBeam Gets Cisco Investment

Sibeam today announced the closing of $36.5 million in Series D funding with Best Buy and Cisco now investing in Sibeam’s 60 GHz wireless chipsets for lossless HDTV between televisions, DVD players and computers, as well as other applications. Based on the WirelessHD standard, the second generation of SiBEAM’s WirelessHD chipsets, deliver a 4Gbps data transfer [...]

Mobile WiMAX in Perth

Vivid Wireless has lauched a WiMAX network in Perth, Australia, using Huawei gear, reports Dailywireless reader Grant Bartlett. Currently coverage is limited to Perth, but is likely to expand to other cities, reports Bartlett. Vivid Wireless has 90 to 98MHz spectrum in the 3.2GHz band at its disposal in metropolitan areas, and the company [...]

Internet Access: 79% Say It’s a Right

A recent survey conducted by the BBC (pdf) found that the vast majority of users around the world consider access to the Internet to be a right. The speed at which Internet access has gone from a privilege, to a luxury, and now to a right is a testament to how transformative it has been. Across [...]

Forbes Top 20 Broadband Cities

Forbes has published its annual list of the most broadband-connected U.S. cities. Their clickable map and list shows Raleigh, NC the most broadband connected. Raleigh, NC: Residents say the city’s high concentration of IT companies, research universities and state capital resources have boosted broadband and wi-fi access. Atlanta, Ga: High marks in both broadband availability and [...]