Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Apple shows off G5, Panther. Executives demonstrate hardware, OS improvements [InfoWorld: Top News]
3:34:30 PM    comment   

Finding Wi-Fi Nearby. It's not enough to just boot up the laptop and see if you can detect a wireless network anymore -- new gadgets and services are making it possible to get instant knowledge of local Wi-Fi nodes without touching the computer. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
3:31:41 PM    comment   

TI and Intel Form UWB Juggernaut. A week before the IEEE 802.15.3a Task Group meets in San Francisco to vote on a new high-speed, short-range wireless standard, Texas Instruments and the Intel-led MultiBand Coalition have joined forces to push their ultrawideband-based proposal. Meanwhile, several major consumer electronics companies pledge their support. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
3:19:36 PM    comment   

Centrino Pushes Intel Profit?. Article makes case that Centrino's Wi-Fi component enabled Intel to sell more laptops and make more money: The article blurs the line a bit between whether there was more money to be made via Wi-Fi itself (where margins are low, but Intel might have picked up a buck or two per laptop chipset) or by selling more laptop chipsets because Wi-Fi was an included option. For instance, Jimmy Chang, an analyst at U.S. Trust Corp., which manages $80 billion and owns Intel shares..."Intel makes more money bundling the Wi-Fi chips along with the microprocessor." I can see how you could interpret this statement either way. People are spending more for Centrino, the article says at one point, but that's just at IBM's site. Centrino and Pentium-M computers have a huge price range, and I don't know that anyone's done a feature-for-feature, dollar-for-dollar comparison.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
3:14:04 PM    comment   

Agere's VoIP/Wi-Fi Chips. Agere assembles Wi-Fi + voice in one small package: At just $30 per chipset in the sampling range (that is, before large quantities are shipped or ordered), this power-managing set of telephony and wireless chips could become the de facto basis for VoIP in the home. An arm of NTT in Japan will make the phones available for their customers; meanwhile, Agere is using some of NTT's technology to make the phones easier to configure.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
3:13:09 PM    comment   

Semantic Studios: International Information Architecture. The ways we categorize are rooted in language and culture. This creates unique challenges for information architects. For example, a web site targeted for a Japanese audience may require a completely different structure and organization than its German equivalent. Localization isn't limited to translation. [Tomalak's Realm]
3:12:55 PM    comment   

News.Com: Researchers delve into the human factor. A team of computer scientists, academics and others gathered this week at IBM's Almaden Research Center to swap ideas on how to better understand the ways in which humans interact with machines. Specifically, they met to compare notes on different ways to make sense of how technology is being consumed. [Tomalak's Realm]
3:12:35 PM    comment   

Bionic Eyes Benefit the Blind. What was once fanciful '70s TV science fiction is slowly becoming reality, as researchers refine electronic replacements for the human eye. By Lakshmi Sandhana. [Wired News]
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