This week, Texas Instruments made a series of announcements regarding its portfolio of WiMax chips. In addition to collaborations with ArrayComm and Mercury Computer Systems on the development of WiMax products, the company introduced a new line of digital and analog solutions for WiMax applications. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]… Continue Reading
Daily Archives: March 9, 2006
Burning Man Vets Bring Wi-Fi To Katrina Region
As veterans of Burning Man, the annual art festival held in a remote Nevada desert, Tom Price and a group of about 20 others who have been volunteering with post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction in Mississippi are used to persevering in forbidding environments. Via [news.com.com]… Continue Reading
Phila. To Detail Its Contract For Universal Wi-Fi Service
The city-sponsored nonprofit that will run Mayor Street’s efforts to bring wireless Internet access to all 135 square miles of Philadelphia is set today to finally announce details of its contract with the Atlanta firm that will build the network. Via [philly.com]… Continue Reading
IBM’s WPAN Chipset Aims To Replace High-Def Cables, Bluetooth
The breakthrough bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS) chip announced today by IBM at the International Solid State Circuits Conference may be exactly what the IEEE had in mind when it convened task force 802.15.3c in March of last year. But the chip that would make it possible for high-definition CE devices to stream content between each other… Continue Reading