Do you have any idea how much your phone company spends just in maintenence? No, I never really thought about that. Well, I guess many people don’t. But those billions of miles of wire and all those exchanges… Why just the maintenance on our thousands of offices and buildings… And that’s not even to mention [...]
The MA-11 was a two-channel amplifier, a box hung from a neckstrap, designed to record newsfilm sound in the seventies. It had a power switch, a button to check “bias” and a VU meter that measured audio input. You plugged in one or two mics, zeroed the meter at 0db tone, kept the needle somewhere [...]
The IEEE 802.11n Task Group, narrowed the remaining 802.11n proposals to two last week. Qualcomm has joined Intel, Nokia, Sony, Samsung, and others, announcing their membership in the TGn Sync club. TGn Sync is targeting the developing IEEE 802.11n WiFi “standard” for 100 Mbps WiFi. They want to be The One. Qualcomm was one of [...]
Mike Masnik of Tech Dirt says; Back in October, we wrote about plans in Taiwan to cover the entire island in WiFi. It looks like they’re trying to get that project moving, but it’s changed a bit, such that they’re now promoting how it will be a “dual network” offering both WiFi and GPRS. GPRS? [...]
“The WiMAX standards are not even close to being finalized, there is no silicon and the infighting between various backers of the technology continue, yet in-Stat believes this could be a market worth billions by 2008“, complains Om Malik. But it’s not true. 802.16-2004 was published by the IEEE in the fall of 2004 and [...]
Engadget has the scoop on Axentra s Net-Box which is Windows, Mac and Linux compatible Internet gateway, firewall, 802.11g access point, and web/email/file server. It comes in two variations: 80GB for $499 and 160GB for $699, and it s USB 2.0 compatible, so you can add external drives if that s not enough storage for [...]
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