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Re:This has been done by other vendors already.
Symbol has made WLAN phones over a year ago. I don't see the point, though. WLAN technology is great for bursty data connections such as web surfing, but providing QoS over WLAN connections is a challenge. Many access point support PCF (Point Coordination Function) but providing end-to-end QoS is a different story over public IP networks. In an enterprise LAN network this may work in small scale but if you have thousands of phones such as in a busy downtown center and try to maintain decent sound quality I bet you are in trouble.
Check this test by ExtremeTech. They had difficulties getting 4 uncompressed audiostreams over 802.11b segment. With compression this could improve by factor of 10x but without PCF bandwidth would not be evenly distributed. -
If I were ekrout...Here are some of my many 'favorites' links relating to this article! +5 karma now! This is great! I should just write a script for this (if I knew how)! Wow!
Boycott Amazon! - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
suit against Barnes and Noble over its 1-Click checkout system.
Description: Richard Stallman of the GNU Project calls for a boycott of Amazon for enforcing its patent on the...
Category: Society>Activism>Anti-Corporation>Amazon.com
www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html - 11k - Cached - Similar pagesI oppose Amazon.com's 1-Click Patent
As one of the founding programmers at Amazon.com, I was very dismayed to learn
of the company's legal attempts to enforce its 1-Click (TM) patent.
www.op.net/~pbd/amazon-1click.html - 4k - Cached - Similar pagesAmazon, Barnes&Noble settle patent suit - Tech News - CNET.com
and the Internet Play clip. Amazon.com said Wednesday that it
news.com.com/2100-1017-854105.html - 27k - Cached - Similar pagesApple - Media & Analyst Information - Press Releases
Apple Licenses Amazon.com 1-Click Patent and Trademark. New Apple Online
Store with 1-Click Shopping Premieres Today CUPERTINO, California
www.apple.com/pr/library/2000/sep/18amazon.html - 11k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pagesSalon Technology | Amazon to world: We control how many times you
for a more conventional, bare-knuckles corporate strategy.
www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/12/21/bezos/ - 23k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pageswww.oreilly.com -- Ask Tim! -- Software Patents Issue
is one more example of an intellectual property milieu gone mad.
Description: The founder of O'Reilly & Associates (the top computer manual publisher) criticizes Amazon's attempt...
Category: Society>Issues>IntellectualProperty>Paten ts
www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/amazon_patent.html - 20k - Cached - Similar pagesAmazon's 1-Click Patent Survives Bounty Hunt
Amazon's 1-Click Patent Survives Bounty Hunt By Elizabeth Wasserman Issue Date: Mar
15 2001 No one wins the prize for invalidating the e-retailer's patent for
www.thestandard.com/article/display/ 0,1151,22862,00.html - 32k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages1 Click Results!
1-Click Patent: No Exact Match But Runners Up Will Split $10,000 Cash Prize.
Runners Up Profiles>>. History of the 1-Click Patent Conflict.
www.bountyquest.com/infocenter/1click.htm - 15k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pagesallNetDevices: - OpenTV Claims 1-Click Patent
www.allnetdevices.com/industry/news/ 2000/10/06/opentv_claims.html - 35k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pagesAmazon Loses Round in 1-Click Patent Case
Amazon Loses Round in 1-Click Patent Case
www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/7528.html - 10k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages -
Hasn't this been around for a while?
"Personal Area Networks" were hyped in 2000, an article here. If you search the MIT media lab's web site you can find a thesis written on this from 1995!
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I See We are Still Dazzled by I-FridgesThe submission comments on this article make it sound like someone is still dazzled by the concept of hooking a refrigerator to the Internet. Ever since Electrolux introduced its Internet refrigerator in 1999, there have been several stories about the concept:
"Consider a future where all appliances with power cords can be networked using universal plug and play including:
computers
telephones
stereos
even refrigerators"http://www.powerlinecommunications.net/smarthomes
. htmNice diagram of the LG I-fridge as a "Residential Gateway":
http://www.slfp.com/011302BIZp.htm"Internet Refrigerator"
http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/may98/0121.html"Can Your Refrigerator Surf?"
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,14675,00 . spBut, most of all, I want to point out the comments that my own company makes about *its* I-fridge:
"We created the first Internet refrigerator to show how the Internet will merge into our everyday lives"
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Re:Eh, why bother?Then why hasn't it been done well?
Icecast allows you to stream a high quality ogg compressed stereo feed anywhere, limitted to your bandwidth. If both ends setup icecast servers and started talking to eachother, there may be a slight delay, but I bet you'd be able to communicate clearly. However this technology hasn't been brought to the home user yet. There are apis to ogg libraries for encoding/decoding stuff. It hasn't been done because there isn't much need for it today. The bandwidth is still lacking on the other end of the connection. Geeks can generally obtain broadband, but most home users wouldn't even know where to look for it.
A ubiqutious free wireless WAN is nothing more than a pipe dream...A ubiquitous free wireless LAN in a year or two is a crack induced hallucination.
802.11b ranges up to 30 or 50 meters, I think, using off the shelf hardware. 802.11a is supposed to be able to connect line of sight up to 4 or 5 miles(correction, 802.11b can range up to at least 10 miles with the proper potatoe chip can antenna), possibly farther with the right antenna. Bandwidth ranges from ~4Mbps for b to ~40Mbps for a, on average. This technology is available this year. Next year we'll probably break the 100Mbps mark and if UWB gets approved we could be looking at gigabit speeds in the next few years.
Still don't believe me?In the summer of 2001, Rob Flickenger, a network administrator, published plans for converting a used Pringles container into a directional antenna costing $5 a piece with a 10 mile range. From there, free 802.11 networks shared plans for broadcasting with coffee, soup, pasta -- even 40-ounce beef stew 'cantennas.'
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arwain free internet access
yet another free wireless net in florida
Still don't believe me? Good, I'm going to stop wasting my time with you. Go back to your dial-up. -
cHTML has to be ubiquitous before deploymentiMode is resting upon the heels of cHTML, a modified and "smaller" version of HTML. One of the main reasons that NTT DoCoMo is able to effect the virtuous circle is its proprietary cHTML page description language, on which i-mode is based. i-mode content cannot be accessed by users of other networks.
From allnetDevices:
when premium content-providers build applications, they first construct a cHTML version for DoCoMo whose commanding market share is irresistible. cHTML also ensures that DoCoMo subscribers are not able (at least, not very conveniently) to venture out of the i mode sanctum into the HTML-based global Internet. DoCoMo has thus created a de-facto "walled garden" - the Valhalla of cellular carriers - and maintains full control over who gets access to the content and who is allowed to provide the content.
Outside of Japan, open standards (WAP, HTML, Java) reign, meaning that mobile content developers don't have to worry about building custom solutions for each cellular carrier; all mobile subscribers with standards-compliant equipment will have access to it. Moreover, walled gardens in the WAP world have met with strongly negative feedback from consumers. In fact, in some places in Europe, WAP-based walled gardens have been prohibited by law due to their anti-competitive nature.
So what we have here is a double-edged sword. You cannot block out others from the cHTML API, if it is deployed here. And whether anyone will want to create cHTML-friednly versions of the already billions of existing HTML pages has yet to be seen.
I am putting my money where the risk is, and betting that *something* good will come out of this. Trade AWE and DCM. AWE is under 9.00/share. I rate it a buy.
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Re:quick question
>While the Judge will corn hole 3Com
I thought palm was spun off from 3com long ago. And since when is 'corn hole' a verb?
Raises an interesting question, tho... Would 3com be exempt from liability because of the spin-off, or would they still be on the hot-seat because of when the infringement took place? -
Re:How much longer...
previous reports, although i did not find anything at verizon.com or verizonwireless.com...
internetnews.com
news.cnet.com
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Blatant Karma Whoring
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What would be great is...
If you could pay for this pay phone call with your WAP phone! Just like the soda machines that are already in europe.
Think about the convenience, no more fishing for change!
- Todd
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Tired of Wired
Thats funny I just read about Wireless Vending Machines, and would like to point something out for the admins at GIT (if any browse here) as well as anyone using wireless networks.
The industry is rushing to wireless as it did to the Internet, and it's making the same hurried mistakes regarding security: minimizing its importance to get applications in the hands of users.
Full article here and its pretty straightforward.
In an environment where beating the market reigns supreme and security takes second chair to proliferation, many experts predict that, much like on the wired Internet, wireless users and IT managers will end up fending off a steady stream of virus attacks, dealing with hacks into user accounts and scrambling to patch security holes. Security efforts that are under way are hampered by divergent networks and protocols and bickering over which methods are best for the wireless world.
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The key technology here is that it's packet
If Motorola and Palm were doing just a cellphone/PDA combo they could have done that years ago. No, this is a tri-band GSM/GPRS combo. The GPRS - General Radio Packet Service technology is a genuine digital wide area packet radio system that's being rolled out now throughout the world. The tri-band part would mean that it would operate in N.America, Europe and ROW. In the US, VoiceStream, the pure GSM player, has already trialed GPRS. However, expect the whole of 2001 to get over the chicken-and-egg problem for terminal and network availablity.
So what does GPRS give you? Well, like all good things it gets better with time. Initially you'll see fairly high speed (for wide-area wireless) IP access, comparable to a modem but it'll be "always-on" and charged irrespective of time. I expect we'll see bucket plans of megabits/month, i.e, sort of flat rate but not unlimited. Most of the terminals will support quite high data rates (64kbps), especially for reception (transmission kills your battery!) but it'll be up to the network to have the capacity and capability to support it. In real life it's probably going to be about 50kbps or so peak with maybe 28kbps operational.Again, this is just the starting point and two radio technologies - EDGE (Enhanced Datarates for GSM/Global Evolution) and the infamous 3rd Gen radio system both offer increased data speeds. EDGE is my favorite as it overlays GSM and the data speeds almost come for free. The only problem is that the operators have spent so much on the 3rd Generation licenses that they might skip EDGE in favor of just getting down and dirty with 3G. GPRS should also give you seemless international roaming.
There'll be a number of ways to get access to the GPRS net. First, you could use your GPRS mobile phone and connect it to your laptop or PDA via a cable, IrDA or Bluetooth. The second way is to use a dedicated PC Card in your laptop or a module in your PDA - afterall whose to say you don't want to use AT&T for your phone service and VoiceStream for your wirless IP? The third and final way is what this Motorola/Palm news is about - an embedded device. Incidentally, the VisorPhone is GSM only, i.e., voice and circuit-switched data.
Interestingly enough, in addition to the usual terminal manufacturers (Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson) for GPRS there's going to be a few new faces. Mitsubishi is rumored to have one of the more developed GPRS phones and Xircom has recently entered the fray focusing on GPRS cards and modules.
Links Story: http://www.a llnetdevices.com/wireless/news/2000/09/25/palm_mot orola.htmlGPRS Technology: http://www.gprsworld.com/ - Check out the Links page
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What We Can Expect - Crystal Ball TimeI had actually made a few predictions for the future of the internet for my senior seminar in 1996. Some of them have come true already (proliferation of internet radio and television stations, ordering pizza online, internet phone calls, online banking), some are on their way to becoming a reality for everyone, as opposed to just us geeks (realtime purchase and delivery of full movies and albums, software rented instead of purchased without needing a complex installation).
As far as technology is concerned, things will most likely progress as they have been, steadily forward. We can expect technologies from Internet2 to be carried over and made a part of the internet piece by piece rather than a big switch one day. I2 has already implemented IPv6 on their backbone and has given us a glimpse of the bandwidth we'll be dealing with in years to come (yes, that is 830 megabits per second over a distance of 5,626 Km).
Application-wise, we can expect new and better audio and video streaming and codecs, improved security protocols, advances is 3d rendering and navigation protocols (making immersive VRML sites more of a reality), improved text-to-speech and speech-to-text recognition systems (opening up web-over-phone and in-car web browsing possibilities for the mainstream - Think: Let me kick back and have my car stereo read me the slashdot headlines downloaded from the wireless network... maybe I'll dictate a comment back, too).
The combination of technology and advances in applications with plain old geek ingenuity will give us lots of new "can't live without it" stuff that will cause the internet to become an essential part of almost everyone's everyday life (instead of just ours). We can expect the internet to:
- Replace or merge with the phone system
- Replace or merge with the television system
- Fundamentally change the way we rent/buy music and movies
- Invade home applicances, making it easy to keep track of what you need from the store or lookup a recipe at your fridge or check on or update your washing machine from your home office.
- go wireless at high-bandwidth, making video cellular phones a reality
- on-line learning (undergrad, high-school, even elementary) will become more commonplace. Writer's Note - This isn't necessarily a good thing. Going away to college is an excellent experience I think everyone should have.
- virtual operations, online operations by doctors operating robotic instruments and instructing assistants remotely will give patients access to the surgical expertise practiced at the world's elite institutions
Ok, I think I have babbled on about this enough. I won't get into the obvious debate over freedom vs regulation, though this will play a huge role in the development of the internet and will most likely hamper the US' ability to compete further down the road, since it is such a litigious culture at the moment, so I will leave that to others to debate.
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ISI Releases Net Device Reference Design
Trio seeks to jump-start Java-based PDAs
It looks like a cool system... and before you moan about it being java based and therefore intrinsically slow, remember that java was originally based for appliances like settop boxes and handhelds. They're partnering with Espial for java class libraries, and Espial has done some great java libraries with a very small footprint. Will be interesting to see if it will be interoperable with the Palm + KJava