A coalition of 16 American states is betting GPS data from hundreds of thousands of vehicles will increase safety on one of the busiest stretches of highway in the U.S.
Vendors experiment with an energy transfer process as similar to how electric toothbrushes are recharged when the brush is placed in a base connected to a wall socket
Motorola Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. demonstrated mobile WiMax technology aboard a tour boat moving gracefully along the Chicago River at WiMAX World, as ecstatic designers and marketing personnel trumpeted the technology for being nearly ready to bring cheap wireless broadband to the masses.
A taxi strike in New York City yesterday was having "limited impact, if any at all," according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, while strike organizers declared the protest over new GPS tracking and credit card technology in cabs a success. The strike, planned for yesterday and today, would not lead to talks with taxi drivers, Bloomberg added. "There's nothing to talk about," he said.
Vendors and government agencies are pushing the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 as the number of addresses available in IPv4 diminishes, and researchers find that network administrators are unprepared for the new protocol. Here's more on what you need to know about IPv6.