Tuesday, January 14, 2003

A Boost for Open Spectrum Honda to introduce Wi-Fi legislation: Wi-Fi isn't really the same thing as unlicensed networking, but still -- Rep. Michael M. Honda (D., Calif.) today said he would introduce a House version of promised Senate legislation allocating 255 megahertz of spectrum below 5 GHz to Wi-Fi and other wireless Internet applications. A spokesman said Mr. Honda was likely to introduce the bill as soon as the House came back into session in two weeks. Sens. George Allen (R., Va.) and Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.) previously promised to introduce the Wi-Fi bill early in the Congress (TRDaily, Nov. 20. 2002). [via Dewayne-Net] [via 80211b News]   Good Stuff!! 3:24:07 PM    comment []

Sony and Open Standards for Broadband Media The Coming Broadband Tsunami Sony Corp.'s chief operating officer Kunitake Ando keynoted the opening of last week's Consumer Electronics Show (one day after Bill Gates), giving some thoughts on the future of broadband, which he warned is a tsunami that could wash the industry away unless they work together on industry-wide open standards. Ando spoke briefly about an advanced Linux platform under development by Sony that will "smash barriers" between industries, technologies and applications. "This wave is coming fast" Ando noted. "As difficult as it may be, we need to collaborate now for our mutual success in order to realize our broadband dreams." [via Broadbandreports]   This interesting note from Broadband Reports suggests that Sony will be releasing a home platform for integrated media and broadband, and that they intend to "smash barriers" by keeping it open.  Is this just rhetoric or is it real?   11:47:54 AM    comment []

Add a Soundtrack to your weblog I just saw this nifty and useful Flash Component for embedding a simple, streaming MP3 player into a Flash Application or HTML webpage.  For those who like sound with their text, this would make a nice free utility to add a sountrack to a weblog. 11:41:59 AM    comment []