Muhammad Ali is widely regarded as the best — and certainly the most entertaining — boxer ever. As he put it, Ali floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. His most famous fight was the “Rumble in the Jungle” against George Foreman in Zaire, Africa. During the bout, Ali [...]
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“Pervasive computing.” “Post-PC era.” “Convergence.” Whatever the buzzword, the move toward ubiquitous connectivity is transforming lives and industries. How do technical visionaries stay tuned? Welcome to CommVerge. CommVerge exists for technology visionaries like you, who are defining and delivering today’s innovative products, services, and infrastructures.
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As speed and bandwidth demands on the public Internet, private WANs, and even
enterprise LANs increase dramatically, optical networking increasingly becomes the
solution for service providers and businesses. As a result, the market for ICs that
support optical networking is exploding, having jumped from $996 million [...]
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Call it convergence, or perhaps a clash of the titans, but the PDA and the cell phone are on a collision course. We’ve long known that these disparate devices would merge, but we still don’t know what form the result will take.
The convergence of cell phones and PDAs is largely good news for consumers. Aside [...]
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If what seems a cornucopia of innovation announced at the recent Bluetooth Developers Conference is any indication, this could be the year that Bluetooth finally becomes a market reality. Despite all the activity, however, products for consumers remain few and far between.
In case you’ve been living in the mountains of Borneo for the last few [...]
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Support makes Bluetooth look unstoppable
Despite technical and financial obstacles I’ve previously described (see “Great expectations”), Bluetooth momentum continues to build like an unstoppable force. On the enabler side, Atmel and Silicon Wave have partnered to develop a reference design for a Bluetooth PC Card. The design combines an Atmel baseband processor and a Silicon Wave [...]
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Enabling technology for the next generation
A wave of enabling technology continues to roll out in support of new cellular handsets, and even Microsoft is in on the fun. The software giant has partnered with cell-phone IC leader Texas Instruments in hopes of winning market for the Microsoft Stinger smart-phone platform in 2.5G GSM handsets. The [...]
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Despite technical and financial obstacles I’ve previously described (see “Great expectations”), Bluetooth momentum continues to build like an unstoppable force. On the enabler side, Atmel and Silicon Wave have partnered to develop a reference design for a Bluetooth PC Card. The design combines an Atmel baseband processor and a Silicon Wave radio modem. At Comdex, [...]
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The UMTS (universal mobile telecommunication services) 2000 conference, held in Barcelona, Spain, from October 11 to 13 featured product announcements of interest to developers of 3G cellular communications systems. In addition, several chipmakers have recently announced breakthrough devices and processes that, in one way or another, promise to accelerate the performance of next-generation handheld devices.
PrairieComm [...]
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The Federal Communications Commission announced last week that it will allocate 50 MHz of spectrum from 3650 to 3700 MHz for both fixed and mobile commercial wireless services. The FCC has also proposed licensing and service rules for this spectrum and is currently seeking comments about the possibility of pairing this 50 MHz of spectrum [...]
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