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If you know what those two commands are you might enjoy this article about Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, the two developers of the modern modem. The contrasts are striking. Hayes was recently inducted into an industry hall of fame while Heatherington is nearly anonymous; Hayes is sick, all but broke, and twice divorced while [...]
Wired has a good overview of the Wireless Embedded Systems (WEBS) project at UC Berkeley. The Wired piece focuses on Intel’s involvement (and funding) but the project itself (especially the NEST and Pico Radio subsets) is intriguing and has already spawned a couple of startups.
Hong Kong’s SmarTone said it will launch WCDMA services in Q3 2004. The company said they expect dual mode (GSM/WCDMA) handsets to be available by then, and they also hope to have the GSM/WCDMA handoff problems fixed by then. SmarTone is one of the few UMTS spectrum licensees who seem to be playing straight with [...]
After a much-ballyhooed initial rush of subscribers Hutchison’s Italian UMTS operator now says it will miss its first-year subscriber target. The CEO blamed handset delays and said, “Our 1-million client target by the end of March may be postponed by several weeks.” I wonder what happened to the two million handset order that Hutchison placed [...]
Happy birthday, Dad.