Max Christian Hansen: Wireless News

One radio chip, many standards: "Amphion creates a radio chip for 5 GHz that can support either 802.11a or the European HiperLAN2 standard. This is a good development as it further abstracts the differences between standards, reducing cost of deployment." 80211b News]

Fixed Wireless For the Final Mile "Seeing isn't beli eving for fixed wireless." Install-it-yourself focused radios almost work. Cnet News.

No More Calls, We Don't Have a Winner. SJ Mercury: "Handspring's phone-PDA combo is a dud. Handspring's much-touted new Treo 180 ``communicator'' at $399 -- the latest attempt to merge a personal digital assistant with a mobile phone -- turns out to be yet another kludge that's too much of a PDA to be a good phone and too much of a phone to be a good PDA." [Tomalak's Realm]

European GPS Stymied. "Europe wants its own global positioning system, but pressure from the United States appears to have halted the proposed $3 billion project." Steve Kettmann reports from Berlin. [Wired News]

Dial SMS for Murder Nokia mobiles can be disabled by SMS message "Security researchers in Holland have found a way to crash some Nokia mobile phones using a malformed text message." [BBC News: sci/tech]

Palm releases Bluetooth software development kit [IDG InfoWorld] An example of a link I'll want to route to a category. Mañana.