Friday, December 10, 2004

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In the Lab Gigabit Wi-Fi?. Siemens hits 1 gigabit per second in the lab with mobile technology: Siemens has developed technology that appears to incorporate MIMO (multiple antennas for transmitting and receiving) and OFDM (the encoding used in 802.11a and 802.11g) to create a 1 Gbps mobile wireless technology. In the lab, at least. The press releases says: "By comparison: WLAN networks presently offer the fastest wireless links to mobile devices at speeds of around 50 MBit/s." But that's slightly specious. The Wi-Fi specs use about 20 MHz for a single channel to achieve symbol rates of over 100 Mbps. (A symbol rate is the raw bit flow, not the net data transferred.) Those rates are expected to increase to as much as 400 Mbps with the introduction in 2006 of 802.11n. Now Siemens says they are using 100 MHz of 5 GHz spectrum. With today's technology, binding five channels together would get you a raw rate of 250 Mbps in compatible Wi-Fi modes and 500 Mbps in proprietary modes--and perhaps 2 Gbps in the future. And Proxim has long had 1 Gbps fixed wireless Ethernet bridges. Their key breakthrough here is in building something that, in the lab, already shows the potential to fit into mobile devices and use relatively computational power to achieve the results necessary by relying on the MIMO approach to increase sensitivity and OFDM to deal with the real-world reflection of signals. The company is looking for this to be exploited for cellular purposes, and it could be a giant threat to mobile WiMax unless mobile WiMax walks down a similar path. [link via MobileTracker]... [Wi-Fi Networking News] 7:40:37 PM

Review by Andre Soares MILLION DOLLAR BABY by Clint Eastwood, reviewed by Andre Soares. André Soares Clint Eastwood has gone on to tackle the ups and downs of the boxing world in MILLION DOLLAR BABY. Despite the cheery title, this is not the usual ROCKY-esque rags-to-riches story of the determined underdog who inevitably becomes a super-topdog once she (yes, in this case it's a "she") puts on her gloves, jumps into a boxing ring, and starts using other women as punching bags. About two-thirds into the film, MILLION DOLLAR BABY takes a radical turn toward tragedy that is as unexpected as the rest of the film is predictable. Once the dust has settled, however, even that last third quickly derails into the same sentimental mush we had been fed earlier. Ultimately, this slow-moving, contrived film — which never quite makes up its mind whether boxing is an artful sport or a social disease — is only made tolerable by Hilary Swank's forceful performance as the steadfast boxer. [The Alternative Film Guide] André Soares is Cinema Minima's Senior Editor/Reviews: read his blog. He is the author of Beyond Paradise: the life of Ramon Novarro Subscribe to Andre Soares's RSS news feed [Cinema Minima] 7:33:07 PM

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transmission Nokia Lifeblog expert transfers Lifeblog to Apple iPod. From Russell Beattie's always useful computer/communications Weblog I learned about Charlie Schick of Nokia who wrote about how he transferred content from his Nokia Lifeblog on a Windows XP computer to his Apple iPod (see below). (Continued at Reiter's Camera Phone Report) [unmediated] 6:48:50 AM