Friday, January 18, 2002

One radio chip, many standards: "Amphion creates a radio chip for 5 GHz that can support either 802.11a or the European HiperLAN2 standard. This is a good development as it further abstracts the differences  between standards, reducing cost of deployment."  80211b News] 3:48:11 PM

Thursday, January 17, 2002

Fixed Wireless For the Final Mile "Seeing isn't believing for fixed wireless."  Install-it-yourself focused radios almost work. Cnet News. 2:27:34 PM

No More Calls, We Don't Have a Winner. SJ Mercury: "Handspring's phone-PDA combo is a dud. Handspring's much-touted new Treo 180 ``communicator'' at $399 -- the latest attempt to merge a personal digital assistant with a mobile phone -- turns out to be yet another kludge that's too much of a PDA to be a good phone and too much of a phone to be a good PDA." [Tomalak's Realm] 2:03:44 PM

European GPS Stymied.  "Europe wants its own global positioning system, but pressure from the United States appears to have halted the proposed $3 billion project." Steve Kettmann reports from Berlin. [Wired News] 8:40:29 AM

Dial SMS for Murder  Nokia mobiles can be disabled by SMS message "Security researchers in Holland have found a way to crash some Nokia mobile phones using a malformed text message." [BBC News: sci/tech] 8:32:42 AM

Wednesday, January 16, 2002

Palm releases Bluetooth software development kit [IDG InfoWorld] An example of a link I'll want to route to a category.  Mañana. 8:35:52 AM