Intel also is making graphics chips for handheld computers, pushing into digital-imaging chips, and planning to roll out WiMax, a Wi-Fi standard that may help bring the Internet to rural areas and developing countries at a fraction of today's cost (see BW, 1/19/04, "The Next Big Thing For Wireless?"). With the chips rolling out in a steady stream, few are betting against Intel this year.
The Next Big Thing For Wireless?
WiMax is a lot faster than Wi-Fi and has a
bigger range -- but success isn't assured
Everywhere you turn these days, there seems to be a
new way to zap data through the ether: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, 3G. Now comes yet
another addition to this alphabet soup, a technology that can blast data seven
times faster and up to a thousand times farther than popular Wireless Fidelity,
or Wi-Fi, systems. Officially called IEEE 802.16 but marketed under the sexier
moniker WiMax, it's bound to be a hot topic this year, thanks to aggressive
backing from chip giant Intel (INTC ) and support from equipment
makers such as Nokia (NOK ) and
Alcatel (ALA ). The first WiMax
gear should be on the market by the end of 2004.
Think of it as Wi-Fi on
steroids. While Wi-Fi hotspots have a radius of about 100 feet, WiMax uses
state-of-the-art microwave radio technology to span distances as great as 30
miles. That means it could be used as an alternative to copper wire and coaxial
cable for connecting homes and businesses to the Internet. If it flies, WiMax
could reinvigorate competition between dominant telecom and cable companies and
rivals using a whole new infrastructure -- not just leasing space on existing
networks. "This is the next telecom revolution," says Rudy Leser, vice-president
of marketing for Tel Aviv-based Alvarion Ltd. (ALVR ), the leading maker of
broadband wireless equipment.
That's just for starters. The real buzz
about WiMax is that Intel Corp. is aiming to shrink the technology down to a
chip so that it can be built directly into PCs and laptops. Intel did the same
thing for Wi-Fi with its Centrino mobile processor line and helped accelerate
the Wi-Fi boom. Analysts figure WiMax laptops could show up by 2006, letting
people get on the Net wirelessly virtually anywhere. "If you like Wi-Fi, you're
going to love Wi-Fi everywhere," says Sean M. Maloney, general manager of the
Intel Communications Group. Pyramid Research LLC of Cambridge, Mass., figures
that nearly 4 million people will be using such "broadband wireless" technology
by 2008. Revenues from broadband wireless services -- mostly based on WiMax --
could top $2.1 billion annually by that time.
If all of this sounds like
a marketing pitch from the 1990s bubble, it should. Telecom startups such as
Winstar LLC (IDT ) and Teligent
Inc. went broke trying to sell similar wireless technology to businesses and
homes. But WiMax has a big cost advantage. The boom-era startups used
proprietary equipment that cost as much as $1,200 for every customer site --
three times as much as early WiMax products are expected to. Thanks to
standardization, prices should plunge even further in the future, to less than
$200 for the gear that sits at the customer's site. Then, when WiMax migrates
into laptops, the cost to buy into it will edge toward zero.
Still,
success is hardly assured. The biggest question is whether even gung-ho techies
need another technology to tap the Net. Wired broadband is widely available in
homes and businesses in the U.S., Western Europe, and parts of Asia. The rapidly
spreading Wi-Fi provides speedy Web links on the go. And wireless companies are
rolling out ever-faster ways for their customers to tap the Net. On Jan. 8, for
instance, U.S. giant Verizon Communications I
"We have a programme for making our source code available to governments around the world so that they can ensure the technology supports the national security interests of the country and we are in open discussions with the Indian government as well," Peter Moore, chief technology officer, Microsoft Asia Pacific told reporters on the sidelines of an e-governance function orgainsed by Manufacturing Association of Information Technology.
He, however, added that the Indian government's response is still awaited.
After all, would you approve of tax payer dollars being used to support computers which are holding documents which are inherently political?
It's more likely that Senator Leahy hired the technician but he was still paid for by the taxpayers. Forget the judiciary committee for a minute..do i want the intelligence committee or the armed services committee documents protected by a taxpayer paid admin? Hell yes..
The computer glitch dates to 2001, when Democrats took control of the Senate after the defection from the GOP of Senator Jim Jeffords, Independent of Vermont.
A technician hired by the new judiciary chairman, Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, apparently made a mistake that allowed anyone to access newly created accounts on a Judiciary Committee server shared by both parties -- even though the accounts were supposed to restrict access only to those with the right password.
Does this mean the party that controls the senate gets to hire the technician who manages the servers? Am i the only one who sees a problem with that?
Assuming a 40% voter turnout, that means each side gets about 20% of the votes. Clinton was elected president with 24% of the votes.If the voter turnout was 60%, a third party candidate would get more than the current 3-4% . I'm not saying higher turnout is the solution to all problems. I personally don't even have a problem with the FBI looking at my bank data. Just don't blame democracy for this law. Remember congress passing the spam bill in 48 hrs when 50 million people had signed up for the do-not-call list?
Especially when shareholders realize that the long-term costs in quality, logistics, and security that working across the globe like this raises far outweigh any short-term benefits.
Is that why most semiconductor products are made in Taiwan/Japan/China?
Trust me: If a good software product was made in India, you'd have Indians bragging about it all over the internet. This isn't a flamebait. I'm ethnic Indian and i know this for a fact.
Indian IT exports(total) = 10 billion$.
That's just a small percentage of the US IT industry. Even with all this doom and gloom, the majority of software is still written in the US. There isn't a finite amount of programming work to go around. If some work is done in India, it doesn't mean the amount of work being done in the US goes down.
And why can't this be used to stop the rising birth rate by disseminating information? In any case, there is a direct relationship between prosperity and birth rates. Even in India, women living in cities are better off than their rural counterparts and have a lower birth rate. If this can help the farmer prosper, it will automatically lower the birth rate. A richer farmer will send his kids to engineering school: better educated children = lower birth rate.
AS any ethnic Indian living in the US will tell you, you can walk into an Indian grocery store and rent a pirated video cassette for the latest Bollywood flock for 2$ or less. This way, people can watch the movie on their big screen TVs instead of waiting for the movie to download and then watching it on your computer.
I'm not saying this is a bad idea...I'm just saying it won't work with Bollywood movies.
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Nextel, Sprint and Bellsouth(cingular) are all cellular service providers.
From the article in the link
The Next Big Thing For Wireless?
The Next Big Thing For Wireless? WiMax is a lot faster than Wi-Fi and has a bigger range -- but success isn't assured
Everywhere you turn these days, there seems to be a new way to zap data through the ether: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, 3G. Now comes yet another addition to this alphabet soup, a technology that can blast data seven times faster and up to a thousand times farther than popular Wireless Fidelity, or Wi-Fi, systems. Officially called IEEE 802.16 but marketed under the sexier moniker WiMax, it's bound to be a hot topic this year, thanks to aggressive backing from chip giant Intel (INTC ) and support from equipment makers such as Nokia (NOK ) and Alcatel (ALA ). The first WiMax gear should be on the market by the end of 2004.
Think of it as Wi-Fi on steroids. While Wi-Fi hotspots have a radius of about 100 feet, WiMax uses state-of-the-art microwave radio technology to span distances as great as 30 miles. That means it could be used as an alternative to copper wire and coaxial cable for connecting homes and businesses to the Internet. If it flies, WiMax could reinvigorate competition between dominant telecom and cable companies and rivals using a whole new infrastructure -- not just leasing space on existing networks. "This is the next telecom revolution," says Rudy Leser, vice-president of marketing for Tel Aviv-based Alvarion Ltd. (ALVR ), the leading maker of broadband wireless equipment.
That's just for starters. The real buzz about WiMax is that Intel Corp. is aiming to shrink the technology down to a chip so that it can be built directly into PCs and laptops. Intel did the same thing for Wi-Fi with its Centrino mobile processor line and helped accelerate the Wi-Fi boom. Analysts figure WiMax laptops could show up by 2006, letting people get on the Net wirelessly virtually anywhere. "If you like Wi-Fi, you're going to love Wi-Fi everywhere," says Sean M. Maloney, general manager of the Intel Communications Group. Pyramid Research LLC of Cambridge, Mass., figures that nearly 4 million people will be using such "broadband wireless" technology by 2008. Revenues from broadband wireless services -- mostly based on WiMax -- could top $2.1 billion annually by that time.
If all of this sounds like a marketing pitch from the 1990s bubble, it should. Telecom startups such as Winstar LLC (IDT ) and Teligent Inc. went broke trying to sell similar wireless technology to businesses and homes. But WiMax has a big cost advantage. The boom-era startups used proprietary equipment that cost as much as $1,200 for every customer site -- three times as much as early WiMax products are expected to. Thanks to standardization, prices should plunge even further in the future, to less than $200 for the gear that sits at the customer's site. Then, when WiMax migrates into laptops, the cost to buy into it will edge toward zero.
Still, success is hardly assured. The biggest question is whether even gung-ho techies need another technology to tap the Net. Wired broadband is widely available in homes and businesses in the U.S., Western Europe, and parts of Asia. The rapidly spreading Wi-Fi provides speedy Web links on the go. And wireless companies are rolling out ever-faster ways for their customers to tap the Net. On Jan. 8, for instance, U.S. giant Verizon Communications I
I'm no MS apologists and Linus may very well deserve a Nobel prize/knighthood in the future but Gates deserves this award.
"We have a programme for making our source code available to governments around the world so that they can ensure the technology supports the national security interests of the country and we are in open discussions with the Indian government as well," Peter Moore, chief technology officer, Microsoft Asia Pacific told reporters on the sidelines of an e-governance function orgainsed by Manufacturing Association of Information Technology.
He, however, added that the Indian government's response is still awaited.
It's more likely that Senator Leahy hired the technician but he was still paid for by the taxpayers. Forget the judiciary committee for a minute..do i want the intelligence committee or the armed services committee documents protected by a taxpayer paid admin? Hell yes..
A technician hired by the new judiciary chairman, Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, apparently made a mistake that allowed anyone to access newly created accounts on a Judiciary Committee server shared by both parties -- even though the accounts were supposed to restrict access only to those with the right password.
Does this mean the party that controls the senate gets to hire the technician who manages the servers? Am i the only one who sees a problem with that?
I know this is /. and you probably didn't read RTFA but there was no hacking. The technician screwed up.
A technician hired by the new judiciary chairman, Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, apparently made a mistake
That wasn't a computer malfunction. The computer and the software worked exactly like the way they were supposed to work.
The savings on transaction costs can be the difference between a profit and a loss. For a lot of products, this may be the silver bullet.
It's GNU/Asianux..not Asianux.
AFAIK, Bill Gates dropped out of college. Why should he make more money than a post-graduate or a PhD?
Assuming a 40% voter turnout, that means each side gets about 20% of the votes. Clinton was elected president with 24% of the votes.If the voter turnout was 60%, a third party candidate would get more than the current 3-4% . I'm not saying higher turnout is the solution to all problems. I personally don't even have a problem with the FBI looking at my bank data. Just don't blame democracy for this law. Remember congress passing the spam bill in 48 hrs when 50 million people had signed up for the do-not-call list?
Why is that surprising when less than 50% of eligible voters actually bother to vote. From that link: In a global context, the average US voter turnout in the post-World War II era ranks below 137 other nations in elections for heads of state. . Why blame democracy and the legislators when less than half the population bothers to vote?
Translation: Only your job requires skill.
Is that why most semiconductor products are made in Taiwan/Japan/China?
Me neither..and i've worked in Bangalore. Such news gets posted on /. because of two reasons
Insecure American techies
Bragging Indian techies.
How many people know the difference between tech support and IT?
Trust me: If a good software product was made in India, you'd have Indians bragging about it all over the internet. This isn't a flamebait. I'm ethnic Indian and i know this for a fact.
Name 5 great software products to have come out of Bangalore. Last!! It hasn't begun.
Indian IT exports(total) = 10 billion$. That's just a small percentage of the US IT industry. Even with all this doom and gloom, the majority of software is still written in the US. There isn't a finite amount of programming work to go around. If some work is done in India, it doesn't mean the amount of work being done in the US goes down.
And why can't this be used to stop the rising birth rate by disseminating information? In any case, there is a direct relationship between prosperity and birth rates. Even in India, women living in cities are better off than their rural counterparts and have a lower birth rate. If this can help the farmer prosper, it will automatically lower the birth rate. A richer farmer will send his kids to engineering school: better educated children = lower birth rate.
Wouldn't that require the users to change their browser settings to use a proxy server?
Or a Cell phone equipped with a GPS receiver?
You may think bollywood movies are awful(and a majority of them are), but this could be a testbed for Hollywood movie downloads.
I'm not saying this is a bad idea...I'm just saying it won't work with Bollywood movies.