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Archive for December, 2003

GoAmerica To Focus on Wynd

Another early entrant into the wireless data services market is retreating as well. GoAmerica, once the darling of the industry but now most often described as “struggling,” said it has given up trying to sell its Go.Web business and will focus on expanding its Wynd subsidiary, which provides wireless services to the deaf and hard [...]

Aether Narrows Its Focus on Two Verticals

One of the early high flyers in the wireless data business in the US, Aether Systems, has agreed to sell its enterprise services business to TeleCommunication Systems for US$19M in cash. The transaction will convey Aether’s middleware stack, Aether Fusion, to TCS along with Aether’s BlackBerry reseller business, their logistics support operation as well as [...]

FCC Moves on SDR

The US FCC took a formal step toward examining software defined radio by issuing a call for comments. The Commission adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) which indicated its interest in how spectrum licensees could use SDR to reduce interference, how SDR could be used in unlicensed spectrum and in rules that would allow [...]

BlackBerry Client for Palm OS

RIM and PalmSource said they are working together to develop a BlackBerry client that will run on Palm OS devices. In a joint press release the companies said their target date for completing development is the second half of 2004.

Proof of Evil

Having been raised in Washington, where we really wanted to have a baseball team good enough so that hating the Yankees was worthwhile, I find it difficult to get my hackles up about them. But I did have a terrific chuckle at this.

New Wireless Lab at Rutgers

Rutgers University has been awarded a US$5.45M grant by the National Science Foundation to study next-generation wireless and mobile networks. The university’s Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) will build and manage both a laboratory and a field trial system in the neighboring towns of Piscataway and New Brunswick. Columbia University, Princeton University, Lucent Bell Labs, [...]

4G In Korea

The government of South Korea is jumping on the 4G bandwagon in a big way. Besides pushing cellular carriers to conduct tests and field trials with a variety of vendors, the Information and Communication minister said the government will auction an unspecified number of spectrum licenses for an as-yet-undefined service by the end of 2004. [...]

In Some Cases, Shooting The Messenger Is Appropriate

PowerPoint’s been taking some heat lately (”PowerPoint Makes You Dumb” and “PowerPoint is Evil” and “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint“) but I think the fire is under the wrong pot. In fact, it’s not the pot at all, but the cook who’s to blame.
One doesn’t turn into a good presenter by virtue of having fancy [...]

A Dozen A Week For A Year

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A man and his nine-year old daughter slept out in the cold last night so they could be first in line when the new Krispy Kreme doughnut shop opened in the suburbs of Washington this morning. He took off work and kept her out of school for the event. They won a dozen doughnuts per [...]

Software Radio To Go Live Next Year

Vanu, a spinout from MIT, announced that Mid-Tex Cellular will deploy 24 of Vanu’s software base stations next year. Mid-Tex has been one of two cellular operators testing Vanu’s technology and said it will use deploy Vanu’s software running on HP hardware to overlay a GSM network on its existing TDMA infrastructure. According to the [...]