Posted on March 14th, 2001 by admin
During a recent interview, Wildblue Vice President and Marketing Manager Brad Greenwald outlined his company’s roadmap for rolling out broadband Internet access next year at speeds of up to 3 Mbits/sec, following the launch of Wildblue’s first Ka-band (20/30 GHz) satellite.
The interview took place just as the fledgling broadband satellite operator was announcing an agreement [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2001 by admin
Our upcoming April issue will devote a feature story and a hands-on “Inside the Digital Den” article to the ongoing struggle between the Palm OS and Pocket PC platforms. In the meantime, Compaq has announced two new Pocket PC-based models and accessories that aim to up the ante.
The two new iPAQ Pocket PC models and [...]
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Users of PDAs, digital cameras, and other pocket-sized devices may initially be pleased as punch with the advanced capabilities of their wireless digital companions. But the bloom comes off the rose as soon as they discover that when it comes to storing memory-hungry files and applications, the storage capabilities of many handheld devices are clearly [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2001 by admin
It’s not like we haven’t heard the promises before, but it seems that powerline technology is poised to make an entrance into the home-networking market.
Inari recently announced that it has shipped silicon for its 2-Mbit/sec powerline-networking technology to Thomson Multimedia. Inari is perhaps best known as the creator of the PassPort, one of the few [...]
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As FireWire continues to proliferate, we’ll see it embedded into more and more power- and space-conscious applications. Texas Instruments has debuted a new 1394 chip that has integrated link and physical layers and sets new standards for power efficiency and footprint. In sleep mode, the 14-square-millimeter chip can drop power consumption to almost negligible levels [...]
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As we describe elsewhere in this issue (see “Game not over,” and “Loaded term“), home gateways are picking up momentum in the marketplace. Market researchers predict that by 2005, gateway hardware will represent a $5 billion party. Accordingly, product teams that wish to join the fun are finding eager dance partners among silicon and software [...]
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The 1394 Trade Association is working to assure that the video-friendly interface is wireless friendly as well. A wireless working group is looking to establish compatibility between 1394 and the IEEE 802.11 wireless-LAN technology, which will also be asked to carry digital video in the future. The association planned to demonstrate the concept at the [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2001 by admin
The IEEE 1394 (FireWire) serial digital interface continues to build momentum, especially in the consumer digital-video market, which is seeing a spate of new 1394-enabled products.
The new 1394 products range from storage devices to cameras to the enabling ICs that will slash the cost of adding 1394 to future products. Down the road, 1394 may [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2001 by admin
The IEEE 1394 (FireWire) serial digital interface continues to build momentum, especially in the consumer digital-video market, which is seeing a spate of new 1394-enabled products.
The new 1394 products range from storage devices to cameras to the enabling ICs that will slash the cost of adding 1394 to future products. Down the road, 1394 may [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2001 by admin
If VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) is to be successful, it must offer reliability on a par with today’s PSTN (public switched telephone network). But how do you keep VoIP phones running during a power outage? One potential solution is known as power over LAN—using the LAN cable to carry sufficient power to drive the [...]
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