About every six months, some genius determines the blogosphere isn’t as diverse as it should be and proposes some sort of quota system. The current offender is some dude named Steven Levy who writes for Newsweek. Jeff Jarvis and about half the known blogosphere take him to task. There are a couple of interesting variations [...]
Today’s FCC ruling is a green-light for WiMedia/MBOA/Intel/TI, but to hear Freescale you’d think it was exactly what they wanted. Let’s be clear, it wasn’t. Freescale hoped the ruling would bar the WiMedia system from the marketplace, and it didn’t. This is pretty much the death-knell for Freescale’s UWB product line unless they can find [...]
According to Freescale guy Matt Wellborn, UWB is faster, cheaper, and less power-hungry than 802.11n: Current proposals for scaling 802.11 systems to higher rates (500 Mbits/s or more) in 802.11n are based on the continued use of 64-QAM. Scaling to higher rates will be enabled through the use of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) techniques that use multiple [...]
More on UWB and the FCC at Techworld.com: UWB is a challenge to regulators like the FCC and the UK’s Ofcom, which are accustomed to licensing most frequencies exclusively, because it spreads radio signals across a broad range of spectrum at low powers that are not expected to interfere with other radio equipment (see our [...]
Alas, another attack on free speech comes down the pike from the heinous George Soros, toppler of governments, destroyer of currencies, champion of democracy and employer of partisan attack dogs. His minions at Media Matters are upset that a technology journalist left comments on blogs expressing political opinions last year. Shocking, huh? Doncha know that [...]
The teevee show 24 had a little scene a while back where a dead girl’s cell phone rang and the camera showed it was a call from “Mom”. The production crew couldn’t figure out how to display “Mom” without a real phone number below it, so they placed a call from the show’s production manager’s [...]
Excellent business journalist Dana Blankenhorn says a ruling is expected from the FCC real soon now that will clarify MBOA’s legal status. The main issues is that MBOA uses frequency hopping to reduce emissions in each frequency band by lower duty cycle. The FCC has a hard time measuring frequency hoppers because they have clunky [...]
Most of the ink on Sony’s selection of a new CEO has stressed the guy’s ethnicity, which is reasonable considering Sony’s a typically racist Japanese company, but there’s a lot more to the story: With the appointment of Howard Stringer as chairman and chief executive, Sony has not only turned to a foreigner but to [...]
Here are some handy links on the Wi-Media/MBOA merger we mentioned yesterday: MBOA, WiMedia tie UWB knot (by Patrick Mannion) EE Times Comms Design Alliance Simplifies Ultrawideband Debate (by Mark Hachman) eWeek Extreme Tech “Ultrawideband Groups Merge” (by Eric Griffith) Internet News.com Wi-Fi Planet DevX News Ultrawideband partners merge (by Rupert Goodwins) ZDNet UK ZDNet [...]
Glenn Fleishmann’s Wi-Fi Networking News scoops the MSM on the merger of the two leading UWB organizations: The two leading industry groups for ultrawideband merge: The Multi-Band OFDM Alliance and the WiMedia Alliance are merging their two groups to align goals more fully and reduce the number of acronyms and institutions. The two groups have [...]
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