The 15 Cistercian monks, who live on Caldey Island, off the coast of Tenby in Pembrokeshire, organised the upgrade after becoming frustrated by their slow internet connection.
Carl Icahn's breakup strategy for Motorola has some cracks in it. After reporting a surprise swing to profit and stronger-than-expected mobile phone shipments in the second quarter, Motorola seems to have ...
The 4.9 GHz Public Safety Radio band offers public safety agencies an opportunity to deploy advanced services unavailable in other bands, such as permanent “hot spot” devices in high-use areas or temporary incident command centers erected at an incident scene.
Research and Markets says there is sufficient mobile communication capacity for agencies charged with protecting the public welfare and wireless communications provides a vital component in the nation’s public safety and emergency medical infrastructure.
Their report goal was to assess 4.9 GHz technologies and markets developments in the U.S. This market exclusively serves one client - public safety communities, and it was created by the government to enhance broadband communications between various levels of first responders.
Today, 4.9 GHz public-safety wireless broadband networks finally moved away from experimental deployments and trials. Wireless video surveillance over the licensed 4.9 GHz public safety band is growing exponentially in the U.S., with significant deployments in Chicago, Dallas, Boston, Phoenix, and West Palm Beach, FL., among others.
The 4.9 GHz band offers public safety agencies an opportunity to deploy licensed wireless personal area networks, hot spot networks, mesh topologies and wireless vehicular area networks. Recent applications include:
The spectrum was allocated by the FCC in 2002. In the rules it issued for the 4.9-GHz band in April 2003, the FCC said it would require the use of an “emission mask” on devices in order to control interference and improve reliability and performance.
The mask, which determines the waveform of 4.9-GHz devices, is now directly incorporated into chip set designs at Atheros. Broadcom also announced a low-cost chip that operate in the 4.9 GHz band.
Uncertainty in technological directions slowed down commercialization of this spectrum, and only in the 2006 time frame a sizable amount of radios was shipped. Currently many major wireless radio vendors are involved in the design and production of 4.9 GHz equipment says Research and Markets.
Margaret Fogarty, 303-965-6950 or 720-935-1324 margaret.fogarty@qwest.com Qwest Communications announced today that it is now offering Verizon Wireless services to all new residential and business customers in ...
Clear Channel Radio’s Total Traffic Network (CCTTN) today announced that the ASUS R700 portable navigation device will use their real-time traffic info. Clear Channel’s digital HD Radio (wikipedia), is now being adopted by broadcasters. It can carry ancillary services — like traffic info — over terrestrial radio stations.
ASUS recently launched their R700, which features a built-in subscription for Clear Channel’s traffic data and does not need renewal. The portable navigation device uses Windows CE 5.0 with a Samsung 400 MHz processor. A 3-D navigation engine displays the map in driver’s viewing angles, and is a complete portable multimedia center with an array of applications that include Bluetooth hands-free functions.
Clear Channel Radio Executive Vice President Jeff Littlejohn said, “We recently passed the 500,000 subscriber mark, and it’s great to know that so many people value traffic data and rely on us to provide it.”
FM stations, using the iBiquity HD radio system have the option to subdivide their datastream into sub-channels (FM97-HD1, -HD2, -HD3) of varying audio quality. The multiple services are similar to the sub-channels found in ATSC-compliant Digital Television. The Traffic Message Channel is a data application for broadcasting real-time traffic information. Data messages are received and decoded by a TMC-based receiver in conjunction with HD Radio devices and navigation systems.
Radio broadcasters turn “public” airwaves into their own “pay radio” service by utilizing GPS subscriptions for maps. Their GPS partners generally sell subscriptions after the trial period for about $60/yr. Real-time traffic data can be supplied in-car by portable navigation systems, broadcast media, wireless and Internet-based services. Traffic data services broadcast from satellite radio costs more (but has less advertising).
Clear Channel’s Total Traffic Network uses its own network of reporters to create their service. It now serves more than 125 metropolitan markets in four countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico and New Zealand.
XM NavTraffic, powered by NAVTEQ Traffic, is the 1st nationwide satellite-based data traffic information service. Aggregated by NAVTEQ Traffic, it is broadcast continuously from subscription-based XM satellite radio to on-board vehicle navigation systems.
Both satellite radio companies offer premium traffic services:
In March 2007, Sirius announced the upcoming availability of its first video service called “Backseat TV“. The service includes streaming video from three “family” television channels: Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network Mobile.
Three Sirius satellites broadcast directly to the consumer’s receiver, but due to the highly elliptical orbit only two of them broadcast at any given time. A third, separate signal is uplinked to the AMC-6 Ku-band satellite and received by 36-inch satellite dishes for the ground repeater network.
XM and Sirius say their merger will reduce duplication and save everyone money. They claim that competition from terrestrial HD Radio (via IBiquity), iPods, mobile television (via MediaFLO, ICO’s Mobile Media or Dish Network’s 700 MHz DVB-SH service), cell phones and Mobile WiMAX (featuring both unicasting and broadcasting) will effectively prevent monopoly pricing.
Google Maps for mobile, of course, has Transit directions for BlackBerry and Java-based handsets. Now Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile support Transit directions and is available to users around the world. Free.
In other news, Dopplr lets you share your future travel plans privately with friends and colleagues. The service then highlights coincidence, for example, telling you that three people you know will be in Paris when you will be there too. You can use Dopplr on your personal computer and mobile phone. It links with online calendars and social networks.
The Schaumburg, Illinois-based cell phone company said Thursday that it earned $4 million, or less than 1 cent per share, in the three months ended June 30. That includes charges of 2 cents per share.
Analysts polled by Thomson Financial had been expecting a loss of 3 cents per share.
In the same quarter a year ago, Motorola lost $28 million, or 2 cents per share.
Its sales fell 7.4 percent to $8.1 billion versus $8.7 billion a year ago. Analysts had been expecting sales of $7.69 billion.
Motorola shares were up 83 cents, or 11 percent, at $8.50 in pre-market trading.
The company shipped 28.1 million cell phones, up from 27 million in the first quarter, and said it maintained its share of the global handset market.
According to research firm IDC, Motorola's market share actually slipped slightly from 9.4 percent of the global market in the first quarter to 9.2 percent in the second, but the company narrowly maintained its third-place ranking, just above South Korea's LG Electronics Inc.. with 9.1 percent. Nokia Corp. is the largest maker of cell phones, followed by Samsung Electronics Co.
Motorola rode high a few years ago on sales of its Razr phone, but has failed to come up with follow-up of equal popularity. Facing increasing investor discontent, Motorola said in March that it plans to spin the handset business off into a separate publicly traded company. The split should be complete next year.
The cell-phone unit, Motorola's largest by sales, posted an operating loss of $346 million, but the other two units, which together make up more than half the revenue, made up for that loss.
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In a sign that it may be finally turning its fortunes around, Motorola Inc. posted a small surprise profit for its second quarter and shipped more cell phones than in the first quarter.
The announcement brings Intel's rivalry with the One Laptop Per Child organization into the spotlight once again.
In May, the nonprofit OLPC group said its green-and-white XO laptop computers would work with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows in addition to a homegrown Linux-based operating system.
The move was seen as a way to make the so-called "$100 laptop," which actually costs about $188, more palatable to education ministers in developing countries who might have balked at an open-source system.
But in a single deal for half a million PCs, Intel nearly matched OLPC's total orders to date -- 600,000 units as of May -- calling into question whether OLPC's adoption of Windows has made much difference.
Representatives for Cambridge, Mass.-based One Laptop Per Child did not immediately return calls or e-mails seeking comment and an updated order total.
As part of its biggest deal for the Classmate PC to date, Intel said it will serve as technology adviser to Portugal's Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Communications, which is coordinating the laptop program.
Intel spokeswoman Agnes Kwan said parents of young school children will be able to choose between computers running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and ones with an open-source Linux operating system, and that the government will distribute the machines to Portugal's elementary school students over the course of the 2008-2009 school year.
As of the middle of this year, "hundreds of thousands" of the Classmate PCs had already shipped to customers in more than 30 countries, according to Kwan.
The spokeswoman declined to disclose how much the laptops will cost parents or other financial terms of the deal. She said Portugal's Ministry of Education is...
The WLAN and the Bluetooth semiconductor markets continued to post double digit growth in 2007, driven by strong demand for connected devices and new applications.
Nokia Corp. is more than doubling the size of its direct venture investment fund with an injection of $150 million, with a view to putting some of the money to use in India and China.
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