Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. Thursday released details of its upcoming Pico-ITX motherboard, which is roughly the same size as a credit card and opens the door to very small PC designs.
Chip vendors, equipment builders, carriers, and network providers will go the way a tiny start-up has already begun in Hanna, Alberta: deploying Nortel base stations and customer premises gear (called subscriber stations) with radios based on the IEEE 802.16d fixed WiMAX standard. Netago's plan and early experience suggests the future development of fixed WiMAX in much of North America.
NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's biggest mobile communications carrier, achieved a 1G bps (gigabit per second) packet transmission speed using fourth-generation (4G) mobile communication equipment on Aug. 20, the company said Friday.
NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's biggest mobile communications carrier, achieved a 1Gbps packet transmission speed using fourth-generation (4G) mobile communication equipment on Aug. 20, the company said Friday.
Some 1,700 Bluetooth products are already on the market, from keyboards and mouses to earpieces for cell phones, according to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) has approved a new and final draft standard for 802.11g wireless LANs (WLANs) that will have a true throughput for Internet-type connections of between 10Mbps and 20Mbps, far lower than 54Mbps raw data rate initially billed for the standard.
United Parcel Service Inc. plans to spend US$127 million on global deployment over the next five years of a new driver terminal that features built-in cellular, wireless LAN and Bluetooth short-range wireless systems.