Mobilog

Tuesday, August 19, 2003

IDC: Failure to communicate will doom PDAs [IDG InfoWorld]
12:32:35 PM

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CardioNet adapts cell phone, truck-tracking tech to monitor heart patients. CardioNet is using cell phone and truck-tracking technology to monitor patients believed to suffer from hard-to-detect transient heart quivers. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
10:25:07 AM

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Transportation companies moving to offer Wi-Fi service. Wi-Fi is increasingly going mobile, as rail, air and executive limousine companies move to offer Web access to passengers in a bid for competitive advantage. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
10:24:47 AM

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Airgo promises breakthrough in mobile-call quality. Airgo Networks' short-range radio antenna chips could offer a revolution in wireless transmission quality, improving speed, range and reliability of wireless devices indoors and between nearby buildings [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
10:24:26 AM

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Understanding Spectrum. The New America Foundation explains spectrum policy--graphically!: A researcher at the foundation, which describes itself as an independent, non-partisan, non-profit public policy institute, alerted me to their new (and free) report, The Citizen's Guide to the Airwaves. This handsomely and expertly produced set of writings and graphics clearly shows the disproportionate value assigned to segments of spectrum, and the lumpiness and irregular approach taken by regulatory, legislative, and executive approaches to spectrum management. The U.S. has a crisis in spectrum because of how it's been distributed, sold, given away, allowed to be used on an unlicensed basis. This document goes a long way towards explaining the fix we're in and presents ideas about how to solve it. Even better, it quantifies so much: current value of various chunks of the frequency dial, and the potential value that could be realized.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
10:24:04 AM

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Wider-Fi. Superb article on how "wider-fi" -- wireless first/final mile -- could have an impact: This excellent piece of mainstream journalism clearly identifies the hurdles and potentials for operating and purchasing wireless links and avoiding telco/cable wire. The term "wider-fi" isn't in wide use, but it's an interesting alternative to "Wi-Fi." More likely, WiMax, the trademark of The WiMax Forum, will take off as a term. It's not as euphonious as Wi-Fi, but it'll get some good mileage.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
10:23:04 AM

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Nextel Looks Inward. Nextel's Wi-Fi plans aren't about hot spots, but about better in-building coverage: Nextel has partnered with RadioFrame Networks to allow its iDEN network standard to have better coverage inside buildings, while also providing 802.11b service for wireless LANs. The two are basically unrelated, but RadioFrame can add iDEN cards to Nextel corporate customers alongside their Wi-Fi cards. GSM, 802.11a, and 802.11g will follow, according to this story. This isn't so much about Nextel branching into Wi-Fi. Rather, it's about extending their voice service by reselling a product that provides better voice performance while answering the wireless LAN need.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
10:22:49 AM

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NY Times: Start-Up Plans to Introduce Alternate Wi-Fi Technology. The company said it hopes to create markets by seeking out consumer wireless equipment companies serving local area networks, hoping that in a hotly contested marketplace, a higher-speed, greater-range option will soon prove advantageous, even if it is not compatible with existing software. [Tomalak's Realm]
10:22:19 AM

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Useit.Com: Mobile Devices: One Generation From Useful. The Sidekick is also known as the "Danger Device" or the "Hiptop." When I saw an early Danger demo two years ago, I was excited about its potential. Now, after actually using it, I've concluded that one or two more generations of device designs are needed to achieve true usability. [Tomalak's Realm]
10:21:31 AM

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Smartphone 2003 screenshots. Some screenshots over at Smartphone Thoughts of Smartphone 2003, the new version of Microsoft's operating system for cellphones. When handsets running Smartphone finally hit the US this fall, it's expected that they'll have this updated version of the OS rather than the older version that came out last year. Read... [Gizmodo]
10:21:06 AM

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Airgo tries to outdo WiFi. Most of us haven't even upgraded our wireless networks to 802.11g yet, and already someone's come out with another standard. Airgo hopes that it's new wireless data standard, which has double the speed (54Mbps vs. 108Mbps) and up to six times the range of 802.11a and 802.11g, will emerge as the successor to WiFi. There's one major downside though: it's not compatible with any of the current standards, something that has definitely given 802.11g (which is backwards compatible with 802.11b) a leg up over its main competition, 802.11a. Read... [Gizmodo]
10:19:27 AM

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The WolfPack: the Army's cellphone jammer. The US military is working on a gadget called the WolfPack which can be parachuted into enemy territory and jam all the cellular transmission in the local area. Even geekier is that a whole bunch of WolfPacks can connect together to form a mesh network that can "collectively gang up" on signals. All we want to know is: How long do we have to wait until we can pick up a surplus one of these at the Army/Navy store? Read... [Gizmodo]
10:16:21 AM

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Palm Wi-Fi PDA gets Aegis security. Cisco LEAP support for corporate mobile workers [The Register]
10:15:01 AM

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Nokia to sell over 200m units in 2004. Set to surpass 40% market share mark [The Register]
10:13:28 AM

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Smartphones will kill off PDAs - IDC. Punters want email on the move [The Register]
10:12:00 AM

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