Recent News...
First Wireless USB chip with band coverage that's legal worldwide, by Peter Svensson, Associated Press via BusinessWeek (17 June 2007)
"Bluetooth bandits home in on car owners' sat navs," by Lindsay Rogerson, The Scotsman (17 June 2007)
Toshiba develops low-cost CMOS for gigabit WLANs at 60GHz, physorg.com. Toshiba press release in Japanese. (15 June 2007)
"US customers keen to buy Wi-Fi ready cellphones," Telegeography (14 June 2007)
"London wireless use rockets," by Lisa Kelly, Computing (14 June 2007)
Pentagon developing "LANdroids" - tiny, disposable, self-positioning Wi-Fi mesh routers, by Lewis Page, The Register (12 June 2007)
"Wibree merges with and becomes Bluetooth," Geekzone (12 June 2007)
Wi-Fi spreading fast on trains by Eric Griffith, Wi-Fi Planet (11 June 2007)
RFID momentum shifting from retailers to suppliers, by Mark Roberti, RFID Journal (11 June 2007)
"First independently intelligent RFID tag" locates itself with GPS, Identec Solutions press release (11 June 2007)
First location-aware ZigBee sensor chip, Texas Instruments press release (11 June 2007)
LG to use ZigBee for home networking, by Matt Hamblen, Computer World (11 June 2007)
"Wi-Fi memory cards coming to cameras," by Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com (10 June 2007)
Harold Feld on "light licensing" in the 3650-3700 MHz band, Wet Machine (9 June 2007)
New blog to build developer community around BizTalk RFID by Anush Kumar, Express the RFID in you! (9 June 2007)
"Microsoft Speaks On Muni WiFi: Bleak or Viable?" by KathrynV, Broadband Reports (9 June 2007)
"Wimax to 'overtake Wi-Fi' in public networks by 2010," by John-Paul Kamath, ComputerWeekly.com (8 June 2007)
Qualcomm, AT&T and Verizon oppose Google auction plan, Bloomberg News via The Boston Globe (8 June 2007)
"Wireless Founders Coalition for Innovation" asks FCC to designate 10MHz of UHF spectrum for "open access" (8 June 2007)
PrismTech's software-defined radio "middleware" runs on a tiny Linux "gumstick", LinuxDevices.com (8 June 2007)
Crackdown on unlicensed Israeli and Palestinian broadcasters/jammers, Ha'aretz (8 June 2007)
Iran's telecom regulator puts frequency look-up service online (8 June 2007)
Integration of NFC and UWB offers high throughput with secure, simple pairing, Artimi Inc. press release (7 June 2007)
Science magazine reports efficient wireless energy transfer technique (7 June 2007)
Ukraine awards two national licenses for Wi-Fi coverage of "regional centres," Telegeography (7 June 2007)
ISP consortium plans to cover 24 Nigerian cities with Wi-Fi, by Sola Fanawopo, The Daily Sun (6 June 2007)
Ambient energy harvester for Bluetooth sensors, by Emily Gleason, EEProductCenter.com (6 June 2007)
ITU paper and discussion about civil society involvement, ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog (5 June 2007)
"Demand for Wireless Chip Sets White Hot," by Aaron Tan, ZDnet Asia via BusinessWeek (5 June 2007)
"Bringing public Wi-Fi to small-town America," by Candace Lombardi, CNETnews.com (5 June 2007)
Bluetooth service comes to Vue cinemas by Sarah Crawley-Boevey, Media Week (5 June 2007)
"RFID umbrella becomes part of mobile advertising in Philadelphia," by Gautam Chhabra, RFID Weblog (5 June 2007)
TCS wins US patent 7,228,333 for "wireless Internet gateway". Text of patent (5 June 2007)
"NFC technology takes main stage at O2 Wireless Festival," O2 press release (4 June 2007)
Ireland: hotspots planned for every major town's main street, by Henry McDonald, The Guardian (3 June 2007)
US military relaxes RFID requirements for vendors by Sandra I. Erwin, National Defense (3 June 2007)
"WLAN Router Coming for Wii," Gaming Today (3 June 2007)
"Djurslands.Net: A Wireless Project Where Sharing Knowledge, Not Technology, Matters Most," by Indrajit Basu, Government Technology (1 June 2007)
FCC launches rulemaking for the license-free 60GHz band (1 June 2007)
Israel refuses to coordinate frequency use with Hamas government, Ha'aretz (1 June 2007)
"Radio-frequency procedure saves baby's life," KXAN 36 News, Austin, Texas USA (1 June 2007)
FCC approves higher-power UWB for tracking in "high-risk industrial settings," TMCnet (1 June 2007)
Proposal for an EU-wide telecom regulator coming in late October, by William Echikson, Dow Jones Newswires via Cellular News (31 May 2007)
Power limit for unlicensed 5.8GHz WLANs raised to 4 watts in the UK, Ofcom announcement (31 May 2007)
NZ to create "a generous managed park" near 2.4 GHz for "smaller and regional" WiMAX providers, NZ Government press release (31 May 2007)
Australia testing "smart transport" wireless mesh, by Sandra Rossi, ComputerWorld (31 May 2007)
"Lack of Understanding the Differences between RFID and Contactless Smart Cards causing Concerns," Frost & Sullivan (30 May 2007)
Microsoft's computer control "Surface" - with wireless and touch input by Paul Hochman, MSNBC (30 May 2007)
Wales has more hotspots per capita than Japan, Germany or the US, Broadband Finder (29 May 2007)
"Beijing Eyes Wi-Fi for Olympics," by Peter Purton, Red Herring (29 May 2007)
M2M communications market more likely to rely on Wi-Fi than 3G, RCR Wireless News (29 May 2007)
"Forecasts See Early Rapid Growth of RFID Baggage Tagging for Airports and Airlines," Research and Markets (29 May 2007)
Radio-blocking transparent film reduces interference, interception risk, Cellular News (29 May 2007)
SLURPR combines nearby WiFi signals into one big bandwidth, by Mark Hoekstra, geektechnique.org (29 May 2007)
