Apocalyptic Hope............ All VeriChip - VeriPay articles
TECHNOLOGY for
consumers
updates http://www.tmcnet.com/
Tech Encyclopedia http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/
666 Hidden in the
hardrive
http://www.pastornet.net.au/jmm/aasi/aasi0176.htm
3D Infrared Facial Recognition--Nov.
25, 2004
I underwent the procedure myself and it only took a few seconds.
A camera used a near-infrared light to put a virtual mesh on my
face 16 times. It merged these into one unique template and
calculated all the measurements of my features.
These could theoretically then be instantly checked
against a database to control access to a building or allow a
cash machine withdrawal. [ Ed. note: like
supermarkets, banks, ATMs , shopping malls ?
]
Providing a secure environment is paramount to protecting assets,
profits, people and brand reputation. 3D
recognition is a huge leap forward for access control."
He claims a major UK airport is
interested in introducing it to check the right
passengers board the plane.
And in the future it could replace a PIN for
withdrawing cash at the bank.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4035285.stm
Powder size IC by Hitach
-- Feb. 15, 2007 the "u" chip [ elongated u ]
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/14/hitachis-rfid-powder-freaks-us-the-heck-out/
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/02/hitachi-develops-rfid-powder/
M 13 Virus battery-power for rice-sized chips -- April 8, 2006
Angela Belcher "directed evolution"
"Viruses cannot reproduce on their own but
must be grown in cells -- in this case, bacteria. They inject
their genetic material and then the cells pump out copies of the
virus."
They added a bit of gold for the desired
electrical effects
The resulting nanowires worked as positive electrodes for battery
electrodes, the researchers said.
They hope to build batteries that range from the size of a grain
of rice up to the size of existing hearing-aid batteries
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-06T223954Z_01_N06188547_RTRIDST_0_SC
IENCE-SCIENCE-VIRUS-DC.XML
and
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2006/04/03/daily67.html
GigaByte wireless -- April 6, 2006
"But Lou Slaughter, the chief
executive of GigaBeam, a technology company in Herndon, Virginia,
has come up with an alternative: millimeter-wave
technology, which transmits data over
wireless connections at one gigabit per second - 1,000
times as fast as a DSL connection.
"
Data speeds can also be slowed down by
heavy rain or snow. New buildings built between antennas
can also get in the way, but GigaBeam can install relays to get
around the obstruction.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/05/business/giga.php#
BlueToothing our homes-- March 29, 2006
connecting videos,computers, TV etc.
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's largest electronics
firms have decided to use Bluetooth wireless technology to send
high quality video between devices in the home, two industry
associations said on Tuesday.
The decision is expected to determine how hundreds of millions of
televisions, video recorders and personal computers will be
connected without wires by the turn of the decade.
Bluetooth is a short-range radio technology which is currently
mostly used to connect cell phones to separate devices like
headsets, printers or microphones. It is increasingly used also
by the car industry.
Bluetooth, invented by Swedish telecoms group Ericsson in the
1990s, (ERICb.ST: Quote,
Profile,
Research),
is more than just a wireless connection. It also contains security
features and protocols to connect many
different devices in a small area. This is a key difference with
simpler Wi-Fi short-range wireless Internet connections
The new version of Bluetooth, which uses
Ultra Wideband (UWB) radio technology, will
enable connections of 100 megabits per second, compared with
transfer speeds of well below 1 megabit per second for most
phones available now. Speeds of at least 10 megabits per second
are necessary to exchange high quality video and television
between devices
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-03-28T183752Z_01_L2839345
2_RTRUKOC_0_US-BLUETOOTH.xml&rpc=22
Computer chip implants may become a reality -- Jan. 2006
http://www.gameshout.com/news/012006/article2418.htm
http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=70454&cat_id=581 ( photo: note LEFT-hand )
http://www.playfuls.com/news_0671_Showing_Some_Skin_For_An_RFID_Implant.html good left
hand photo
Audio http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=d4f47afb-6ee3-460d-b4e3-834770fa886b&k=85038
Entrepreneur installs chip in both hands -- Jan. 2006
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17747790%255E8362,00.html
( photo: note
LEFT-hand )
http://www.cio-today.com/news/Entrepreneur-Gets-RFID-Implants/story.xhtml?story_id=021000PD7UUL
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/01/09/chip.implants.reut/
Mobile TV .... 24 / 7 IMAGE of the Beast ( interactive too)
Innovations
to better to see the image of the beast with
TV without Frontiers -- Nov. 12, 2006
But the British government and some Internet companies
had feared that a previous draft would have gone even further,
potentially subjecting private Web sites,
blogs and Web cams to regulation
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/12/business/eurotv.php
Local TV, Globally --June 15, 2006
The end result is the same for all of them: You can
watch the TV channels you get at home on your personal computer
wherever you can get a broadband Internet connection - office,
hotel, cafe, airport lounge, etc. - either as they are broadcast
or to record to watch later
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/14/business/ptend15.php
CELLPHONE TV: Orange, the mobile phone company controlled
by France Télécom, is introducing the
first mobile phone television service in Britain to its
high-speed wireless customers. The service will initially be
available only on the Nokia 6680 phone. Customers will be charged
£10, or $18.33, a month to watch nine channels for a total of
about 20 hours of viewing time. (Bloomberg, Reuters) -- IHT May
20, 2005
Gates: Interactive TV to
handhelds, mobile phones; TiVO downloads and DVDs --Jan. 6, 2005
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/Gatess-grand-telly-vision-is-in-the-palms-of-our-hands/2005/01/06/1104832238829.html?oneclick=true
TV with no boundaries: TV2Me--
Dec. 4, 2004
Now, Schaffer, 57, is trying to abolish yet
another blind spot. In short, he has devised a way to make home
TV reception portable - with high-quality pictures to be watched,
and channels to be changed, from anywhere in the world
that the Internet can reach
In fact, Schaffer was controlling a dedicated
computer terminal in Moscow that was simultaneously connected to
his Moscow cable box and a DSL data link. The terminal, which
Schaffer calls TV2Me, uses a small
infrared emitter to tell the cable box which channel
to display. Inside TV2Me are special computer cards that allow
the unit to send high-quality video over a routine broadband data
connection.
In his bedroom is a huge Sony plasma flat-panel
television. He puts up the same Moscow channels that
were on the laptop in the living room. The images are fluid and
clear.
Sony, it turns out, has just developed a similar product, called LocationFree
TV. Both TV2Me and LocationFree TV allow a user
to view their home television from anywhere in the world that has
a high-speed Internet link, even a Wi-Fi connection outdoors.
The Sony unit is cheaper. The home base station of the Sony unit
is smaller. Sony's user interface is slicker. But Schaffer's unit
transmits a clearer picture over the Internet.
Schaffer started working on TV2Me in earnest in 2001, and he has
ended up using the same basic compression technology that
Sony is using, called MPEG-4. But while Sony is
essentially using standard MPEG-4 by itself, Schaffer and
his team of Turkish and Russian programmers have
developed circuitry that allows the MPEG-4 encoder to operate
more efficiently and to generate a better picture.
Tekseed LLC, which is developing a
separate video system for security applications
his technology, which does, after all, retransmit cable or
satellite television signals over the Internet. He insists that
each customer put his systems only to personal use
Schaffer refers to the use of his product as "space
shifting," as in watching television in one's own space.
(His Web site is www.spaceshift.net
)
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/12/03/business/pttv.html
What is Broadband ? ( 3G
wireless and satellite)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/quick_guides/04/technology_broadband/print.stm
http://news.zdnet.com/2110-1035_22-5475326.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A2152423
DSL ( Broadband ) growing exponentially in China, South Korea,
and Japan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3699820.stm
Mobility TV by Sony : LocationFree--
Dec. 4, 2004
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/12/03/business/ptsony.html
Mini- Media ... smart phones .... mobi-lit --- Dec. 6, 2004
An early pioneer in minimedia is Media Republic,
which is based in Amsterdam
Everybody is eventually moving to video on mobile
Almost two-thirds of the 62 million handsets
shipped in Europe in the last quarter were camera phones with
color screens, according to Canalys, a technology consulting and
research firm based in London. It expects sales of 3G phones in
Europe to pick up substantially next quarter, albeit from a very
small base. Only 3 percent of phones sold last year in Europe
were 3G-compatible.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/12/05/business/book06.html
Cell-phone TV
SEOUL
Last week, LG Electronics showcased one of the most advanced
consumer technology packages on earth - the world's first
cellphone capable of receiving terrestrial multimedia
broadcasting. But there is one hitch: The technology, known as
DMB, is not expected to be commercialized anywhere in the world
before next spring.
At 135 grams, or 4.8 ounces, the phone is only slightly chunkier
than most South Korean handsets. The standout features are the
2.4-inch, or 6-centimeter, high-definition liquid crystal display
and 3D surround sound stereo speakers, and of course the ability
to receive terrestrial DMB television, radio or data broadcasts.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/11/19/business/ptphones.html
HDTV - PC
A $200 upgrade can turn a personal computer into
a "starter" high-definition television.
ATI says there are 1,129 digital television
stations -- not all of them in high-definition -- sent over the
airwaves in the United States, with at least one of those signals
reaching virtually every household.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=6150851§ion=news
"Mobile TV will be a hit" --Nov. 4, 2004
In a relatively short space of time, we are
learning to use mobile devices to watch television,
play games and listen to music," Ollila said. "Mobile
TV will be a hit" and there will be a
"swift" uptake of the service, he said.
The company is testing the service, and will start selling a
phone capable of receiving mobile television in 2006.
Nokia and Hewlett-Packard, whose chief
executive, Carly Fiorino, spoke at the
conference, are cooperating on a service called visual
radio, which lets users listen to radio on their
mobile phones while at the same time viewing related information
on the phone screen.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/11/03/business/nokia.html
Broadband Webs -- Dec. 5, 2004
The biggest jump was in Italy, where it
rose by 120%. Britain was close behind, with broadband
users almost doubling in a year.
The total number of Europeans online rose by 12%
to 100 million over the past year, the report
showed, with the biggest rise in France, Italy, Britain and
Germany.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4065047.stm
As technology progresses--Sept. 29, 2004
It has moved on from the discretionary stage to
being absolutely mandatory. Once you start rolling out
Web-enabled types of technologies, you will immediately be in
another dimension with an increased need for security.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=540904.html
Different Voltage Computers -- Dec. 4,
2004
But the G5 iMacs sold in the United States and Japan are one
voltage only. Those sold in Europe and elsewhere can run on
either 100-110 volt or 220-240 volt electricity.
It was a sudden, unexpected and little publicized change
for Apple, since the G3 and G4 iMacs were dual-voltage and since
every other Apple desktop and laptop sold today is dual-voltage
except for the eMac models for schools.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/12/03/business/ptend04.html
IBM's CELL -- Feb. 7, 2005 Fort Stone; distributed
network
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2005/forts27.htm
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/6b31ebfe-786b-11d9-9961-00000e2511c8.html
ASTRA signs transponder deal with GlobeCast --
July 15, 2005
GlobeCast (www.globecast.com)
- a subsidiary of France Telecom - is the leading global
satellite services company, operating a worldwide content
management network over satellite and fibre for delivery of
professional media for broadcast, enterprise, government and
retail, including file-based content. In addition to traditional
distribution services, recent initiatives include WING -
the company's global Content Management Platform - which drives
cutting-edge IP-based applications that enable file exchange,
store & broadcast, streaming, VOD, program insertion and
other non-linear solutions. The company's 19 global
points-of-presence span America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle
East and Australia, and include 15 teleports and technical
operations centres.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050712005706&newsLang=en
The BBC has contracted a further transponder, this time on the
ASTRA 2A satellite at 28.2 degrees E.
The BBC, which already has six ASTRA transponders on ASTRA 2B and
2D, will use the additional capacity to reconfigure the satellite
delivery of its portfolio of TV, radio and interactive
services.
http://www.broadcastbuyer.tv/publish/article_5144.shtml
For HDTV
BBC has signed a multimillion pound deal to secure extra
transmission space via satellite
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds22516.html
Satellite Radio
http://www.worldspace.com/freeradio/index.html
T-Mobile Deutsche - Telekom -- May 13, 2005
Since it purchased VoiceStream, an operator of a
digital phone network based in Bellevue, Washington,
in March 2001, Deutsche Telekom has relied on its U.S. business
to offset the downturn in Germany, where it is fighting stagnant
domestic demand and the loss of monopolies on long-distance and
local calling service
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/12/business/telekom.php
Mobile phones ( cellphones) and the emergency system's "
Priority Access "-- July 8, 2005
a
two-tier system ?
Meanwhile, several mobile operators, including
Vodafone and O2, said they had invoked emergency
procedures that set aside mobile capacity for police and
government officials, along with rescue workers.
"We were asked by police to provide priority
access," an O2 spokesman said.
"This would have made it difficult for some of our customers
to make calls in and around the affected areas."
Indeed, for several hours after the bombings on Thursday
morning, it difficult or impossible to
complete any mobile calls at all in the City, the financial
district of London, which is surrounded by the bomb sites
leaving e-mail as the most reliable
communications method for some time
half-rate coding, which
allows more mobile calls to be made using existing bandwidth, but
at lesser voice quality and with the reduction or elimination of
mobile data and video services
Data scrutinized, including video
Mobile operators declined to discuss any steps
they might have taken to monitor calls or what, if any,
information they might have turned over to the authorities
investigating the bombings. "We will certainly help
with the investigation in any way they can, within the law,"
said Stuart Jackson, a spokesman for the Orange mobile service, a
unit of France Télécom
Because many mobile phones now have cameras, some
Underground riders might have pictures of people connected with
the bombing, or other useful evidence, in their phones
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/07/business/networks.php
GPS ..from military to civilian -- Ely Portillo
Siemens to develop strategic text messaging -- Aug 11, 2005
One big innovator, the corporate technology unit
of Germany's Siemens AG, is working on a system to send text
messages to precise locations rather than to
individual cell phones. Any GPS-compatible phone that's passing
through the coordinates would receive the message
.All GPS systems, old or future, rely on radio signals that are
beamed continuously to Earth by a network of roughly
24 satellites. (The precise number that
are operational varies.) GPS devices on Earth receive the signals
and measure how long it takes for each to arrive. Using the
classic physics formula of rate multiplied by time equals
distance, the GPS computes how far it is from at least three
satellites. Only one point on Earth corresponds to
each set of three distances. The GPS can compute location with an
accuracy of about a yard.
[ Ed:
called "geo-triangualtion" ]
Augmented
Reality -- seeing beyond walls
Steven Feiner, a computer science professor at
Columbia University in New York, is developing goggles with a GPS
receiver in them that tracks the user's position and displays
information about what the user is looking at on the goggles'
lenses
Feiner thinks his so-called ``augmented reality''
system could be used to display the locations of
underground utilities for construction workers. Or
to show the utility systems
-- and possibly the identities of tenants -- in buildings from
the exterior( outside ) . Or to give
pedestrians the equivalent of in-car navigation maps.
GPS
home-detainees
Also coming is a people-tracker that would do a better job
of telling what evasive home detainees such as Martha Stewart
have been up to. Houston-based Satellite Tracking of
People wants to do it with a one-piece GPS
ankle bracelet. Its bracelet can be coupled with
software that tracks the wearer and notifies monitors if
detainees go AWOL or have been near reported crimes.The
radio-based system that tracks Stewart and other federal
detainees sets off an alarm if the person leaves home but it
can't find him or her.
Prototype: GPS under
the skin
Another innovator would like to put a GPS under your skin. The
system, intended for wayward loved ones -- or anyone who's deemed
to need tracking -- is about the size of a pacemaker. Applied
Digital Solutions of Delray Beach, Fla., developed a working prototype
two years ago but shelved it because of high costs. If a client
wanted the product, the company said, it could miniaturize the
implantable system to the size of a grain of rice.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/12360343.htm
see also
VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied
Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX), a leading provider of security and
identification technology, announced today that it is introducing
its new implantable / wearable security
solution - VeriGuard(TM)-
With the Company's recent acquisitions, the
VeriGuard system now features both implantable
and wearable RFID
access control and monitoring
technology. Implantable RFID chips and/or wearable
RFID bracelets and tags integrate seamlessly into the new
VeriGuard system.
Our first-of-a-kind implantable RFID chip -
VeriChip - can be used for access control and other security
applications
The exhibition and demonstration of the VeriGuard system
will be managed by Seguridad Oncor,
VeriChip's distributor in Colombia. Seguridad Oncor Ltda.,
VeriChip's distributor in Colombia, is a distributor of access
control and RFID monitoring systems. For further information,
please visit http://www.seguridadoncor.com/. http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050727005319&newsLang=en
For information on VeriGuard, please navigate to http://verichip.arcterex.net/content/solutions/1117566047.
http://www.morerfid.com/details.php?subdetail=Report&action=details&report_id=397&display=RFID
VeriGuard can now detect implantable VeriChip-- July 27, 2005
( instead of just only external tags)
The VeriChip product started with the idea of an
electronic "dogtags" [ Ed:
ID ] for military and emergency services
personnel. It has been suggested that eventually VeriChip
could replace credit cards and other forms of
identification cards with the advantage that, unlike their
plastic equivalents, they are almost impossible to lose. But for
the near term, the company is promoting VeriChip as a means of
identification in a variety of applications including buildings
access, military, and government security.
It works in tandem with the VeriGuard system, which, for
instance, authenticates people authorized to enter a given
building or facility to automatically unlock a secure doorway if
the person has authorized access.
The system being announced today will detect both
external wearable tags, such as those used with the Xmark
technology, as well with as the implantable VeriChip RFID tags.
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=FAB1FE4D-C713-4CC4-9DF9-B4C3B18212E9
Global Broadband
Wireless ( 3 satellites ) March 14, 2005 ... Inmarsat 4
http://www.techweb.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=159401477&site_section=700030
Fiber-to-home broadband
network ... replacing cable network
The utility has begun seeking bids for laying the network,
building the central office and then taking the fiber optic cable
lines directly to customers' homes. The project is being financed
through a general obligation bond issue.
The new network should be available to all Morristown customers
by the summer of 2007. Then the utility will use financing based
on revenues it's receiving from city customers to extend services
to the county, Swann said.
With the fiber-to-the-home network, as technology improves, the
utility will be able to deliver data services more and more
quickly, potentially improving on today's broadband speeds
by more than 100 percent, he said.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/40460.html
Superbrain Chip
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2005/forts27.htm
Cell Phones can now become computers -- Jan. 20, 2005
Electronics giant Toshiba said this week it has
developed software that lets cell phones use programs stored on
most home computers, a breakthrough that further erases the
divide differentiating the two devices.
Phones with the "Ubiquitous
Viewer" software can read e-mail stored on a PC, open a
document or even use the PC's Web browser to view Web sites. The
only requirement is that the PC uses Microsoft's Windows
operating system.
http://news.com.com/Phones+dial+in+personal+computers/2100-1039_3-5542610.html
Toshiba's
"Ubiquitous Viewer"
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2005_01/pr1801.htm
Government's
Back-Door to CellPhones
Gov. messages ( PSA's ) by cellphone -- Jan. 4,
2005
SMS text messaging ........ Public Service Announcements
The idea of governments using mobile messages
to communicate with citizens is beginning to
take hold.
In April 2003, the government of Hong Kong sent out a text
message to six million mobile phones to quash a
rumor that Hong Kong had been designated an "infected
city" for severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
The Netherlands, too, is building a network that will
allow the government to issue alerts to cellphone users
nationwide or within an area of a few city blocks.
Citizens will be invited to sign on for the alert service.
"You can direct a message to people who are close to an area
where there has been an accident," and suggest they take
another route, said Nanne Bos, a spokesman for LogicaCMG, which
is creating the system.
In the past, he said, citizens have not been comfortable with the
government having a back door to their personal technology.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/01/03/business/text.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/03/business/text.html
The 'good' is oftentimes the enemy of the best
Citizen counting-- Jan. 4, 2005 " a cow-bell " ?
Meanwhile, Orange's French unit has sent SMS
messages to 3,200 customers who were traveling in the area of the
tsunamis on Dec. 25 and 26, asking them to contact the French
Foreign Ministry.
France Télécom, which owns Orange, said that the French
government had requested the text messages
to help account for its
citizens.
It is possible to identify mobile phone customers who
were in the area and had their cellphones on through the
registration of their phone numbers in a database of
"roaming" customers.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/01/03/business/textbox.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/03/business/textbox.html
iPod
storage unit ( your personal mega-database )
1,000s of files, profiles
An iPod in the wrong hands could be as dangerous:
Thousands of photos in waiting and nowhere to run. Talk about an
ambush. Even worse, it takes no particular skills to use the
iPod, once you've made the download from your computer. There is
no intelligence deterrent to be considered; Everyone
is a threat.
A theme that popped up regularly in early TV science fiction like
"Star Trek" and "My Favorite Martian" was the
idea that the essence of man could be condensed into a small
cube. Suck all the fluids and empty space out of our body and the
rest of our being could be compressed into something just about
the size of an iPod. This was good for transporting matter over
long distances, but it was bad if you dropped one of the cubes,
which tended to crumble apart on impact
The iPod tends to mimic this fancy of fiction, without the Humpty
Dumpty effect if mishandled.
iHeads.
So while most people are buying iPods for fun, the possibilities
seem almost endless. Maybe one day we will carry most of our
lives in little memory banks like these, things like birth
records, passports, social security information, love letters,
power point presentations and our favorite DVDs. Easy access to
everything.
http://www.texarkanagazette.com/articles/2005/01/30/local_news/opinion/opinions02.txt
Mobile : "Napster to Go " ..iPod Nation --
Feb. 3, 2005
Called Napster to Go, the service includes a new
technology that allows it to work with portable
players. A $30 million ad campaign for the service will launch
during the Super Bowl on Sunday.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1496540/20050203/index.jhtml?headlines=true
Janus technology --monthly fee
Janus allows you to take an encrypted download from your PC hard
drive and move it to your portable device with an electronic
license, then that has to be renewed every 30 days," said Napster CEO Chris Gorog.
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,66474,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
Cellular Squirrel evaluates cell
phone calls -- July 19, 2005
When a call comes in, the animatronic squirrel
will "wake up" as might a character from a Disney
movie. It will then start engaging the remote caller in a
conversation in an effort to determine what the call
is about, and if it is important enough to disrupt the
conversation going on in its area.
The device makes this determination by listening to the
conversation around it, trying to pick up key subject words that
it can use to compare with what the inbound caller seeks to
discuss. The number of the caller is also compared with an
internal list of numbers belonging to "friends", and
the tone of the callers voice is evaluated
http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=1519
Videos of Cellular Squirrel http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/phd/cellularsquirrel/
Digital convergence : Phone, Web, Media -- July 25, 2005
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/24/business/wireless25.php
WiMax
WiMax is a long-range system that can deliver massive
amounts of bandwidth - up to 70 megabits a second - over
distances as long as 30 miles,
or 50 kilometers. Add voice-over-Internet gear, and some of this
bandwidth can be used to carry standard telephone calls. Bolt a
WiMax antenna to an office building, and you've got a
heavy-duty communications link that can supplement or replace
traditional telephone and Internet hookups.
"It's a better way to deliver broadband," said
TowerStream founder and president Jeff Thompson, who has set up
WiMax services in New York, Chicago and Boston.
TowerStream can deliver a 1.5-megabit-per-second Internet
"pipe" for $500 a month, compared with $370 for a
connection from the local telephone company Verizon. But in New
York and Chicago, TowerStream offers 5 megabits for $500, and it
will soon introduce the higher-speed service to Boston at the
same price.
http://www.iht.com/articles/514682.htm
What is WiMax ?
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/wimax.htm
Universal scanners
IDEAM CE is a graphics-oriented application development
environment that requires no programming to create powerful mobile
applications. It supports a wide range of popular next
generation barcode scanners and 2-D imagers based on
the CE operating system employing pre-defined objects to walk
non-technical users through the development process to quickly
create applications.
http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/467073
Since 2003 universal scanners needed
http://www.hsus.org/pets/issues_affecting_our_pets/common_questions_about_microchips.html
WI - FI Cities (Broadband) HOTSPOTS
http://evdo-coverage.com/#maps
EVDO = evolution data only
UMTS = universal mobile telecommunications system
Arizona: largest WiFi section in US -- March 2006 (
Tempe, Gilbert, Chandler)
http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=183700222
pocket-lint co.uk
McDonalds McWi-Fi -- Oct. 19, 2005 ...... Nintendo
round the world .... networking; connections
Today, Nintendo announced an agreement with wireless
Internet provider Wayport to set up free access to the
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in almost 6,000
McDonald's. The deal will allow Nintendo DS owners
to walk into a McDonald's and play Wi-Fi-enabled games with
others on the service, whether they are in the building or
around the world. There will be no setup required--users
simply launch a game that supports Wi-Fi, and play against others
while sucking down shakes
McDonald's has now franchised more than 30,000 eateries
across the globe. According to the McDonald's Web site, more
than 50 million people eat at the fast food chain per day.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6135992.html
McDonalds, Disney and portable media players -- Dec. 13, 2005 downloadable data
The plan could work something like this:
A customer enters a restaurant and buys a meal, receiving the
portable media player
and an electronic code that authorizes a partial download of a
movie, video or other media file, which can
be downloaded while in the restaurant, according to a U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office application filed by Disney. Then, with each
subsequent return, the customer earns more downloadable data,
eventually getting an entire movie or game
The patent application follows efforts by
McDonald's to enhance wireless capabilities at its restaurants.
The company began outfitting its restaurants with wireless
Internet connections in 2003, and since then has installed Wi-Fi
services in more than 6,200 restaurants worldwide.
The portable media players would require
"networking systems, such as Wi-Fi or any other suitable
wireless Internet access systems," the application said.
By continuing to install Wi-Fi capability, McDonald's may be
gearing up for the portable media player to be a staple of its
promotional lineup
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/12/business/disney.php
Wi-Fi in more buildings -- Sept. 15, 2005
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/09/business/ptend10.php
Rabbit : Wi-Fi for entire cities --
July 18, 2005
The device's key characteristic is permanent wireless
connectivity to the Internet via a Wi-Fi network, preferably one
that stretches across the entire city in
which it is located.
For now, the rabbit remains a basic
communications device that uses lights, sounds and movements of
its ears to discreetly pass on messages to anyone nearby. Sounds
can include MP3 files of music, voice or noises, and any
combinations of colored lights and patterns can be
used to signal specific information
Ed : Population
Control through networking
John Gage, chief researcher at Sun Microsystems, at the
TED forum. ''Once they get enough of them out there, I would love
to see a global piece of installation art created by
moving all their ears at once.
''The ultimate goal is to link all
devices within a home and even a city for your convenience
Some of the things he is working on include an
announcement by the rabbit when a specific bus nears the
neighborhood in the morning; [ ED :
from local governance to your home ]
His next application — to be introduced in September
— will be a mobile telephone that can make calls over the
Internet
Various city governments have made it their stated
objective to offer wireless Internet to their residents,.....
The network bounces the signal from antenna to antenna, so
only a few antennas need to be connected to the Internet via a
land line.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/17/technology/web.0717ted18.php
Tracking over Wi-Fi
https://www.ekahau.com/products/T101/
MS
Location Finder ... No hide Wi-Fi
Microsoft Location Finder is a client-side
application that turns a regular WiFi enabled laptop, Tablet or
PC into a location determining device without the addition of any
separate hardware. When launched by a user, Microsoft Location
Finder uses WiFi access points - or reverse IP
lookup when WiFi is not available - to
center and display the person's location on an MSN Virtual Earth
map, enabling the user to quickly and easily search in their
present location.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B5E8C83A-EA8E-4464-9980-7B6A8DD1013C&displaylang=en rms
Wi-Fi MOBILE Visibility
TransAlta plans to replace its existing handheld
computers, which can scan passive RFID tags wirelessly but have
to be connected physically to other peripherals to gather
metrics, with next-generation handhelds such as Intermec Corp.'s
Bluetooth-enabled devices. Intermec's handheld computers have
built-in Bluetooth capability and come with RFID-enabled handles
that easily snap on. The active RFID tags
will give TransAlta more flexibility than passive tags because
they have more memory and transmit over greater distances
It's also investigating software such as AeroScout Inc.'s
Visibility System, which supports RFID, real-time location
tracking, telemetry, and choke-point detection, which is technology
that detects tagged items or people as they pass through gates or
other defined spaces. Locating an expensive calibration
tool in a power plant six times the size of a Costco store can be
difficult, says Paul Kurchina, program director at TransAlta.
"We don't want to just identify the equipment like passive
RFID does; we want to be able to find it when it's mobile.
And using active RFID combined with a Wi-Fi network
can tell me exactly where this calibration tool is in the plant,
and it can even tell me if it's leaving the premises," he
says.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57701494&tid=5978
Verizon - Vodaphone ...36 cities
EV - DO ..... 30 % of US covered under broadband by end
of 2004 --- Oct. 12, 2004
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Verizon
Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless company, will expand its
high-speed data service to
16 markets by the end of the year, the
chairman of Verizon Communications Inc. said on Monday.
The service, already available in all or parts of 20
cities, offers typical download speeds of about 500 kilobits per
second, about 10 times as fast as dial-up Internet connections,
with bursts of up to two megabits per second, comparable to home
broadband service.
[ Ivan ] Seidenberg did not say which cities would be
added to the service. Verizon had set a goal of
covering 30 percent of its U.S. network with the technology known
as EV-DO by the end of the year. In the second
quarter, about 4 percent of Verizon Wireless' revenue, or $255
million, came from data services
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=575&ncid=738&e=8&u=/nm/20041011/wr_nm/telecoms_verizonwireless_dc
Broadband Access
The markets consisting of Atlanta; Austin, Texas;
Baltimore; Kansas City, Kan./Kansas City, Mo.; Los Angeles;
Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Milwaukee; New York; Philadelphia;
Tampa, Fla.; and West Palm Beach, Fla; will join existing EV-DO
markets of San Diego, Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas. In
addition, major airports in or near these 14 cities plus Dallas;
Houston; Newark, New Jersey; New Orleans and Phoenix will also
have EV-DO coverage.
http://www.wirelessweek.com/index.asp?layout=document&doc_id=135855&verticalID=34&vertical=Business+and+Finance&industry=
LiveWire multimedia
broadband -- Sept. 2004
South Korea : HomNet --Dec. 27, 2004
Through this interface, the "HomNet"
environment is controlled via a TV-style remote control or a
PC-style keyboard.
Want to see what is going on in other rooms, on the playground,
or outside the door? Cameras relay the image on screen in real
time. Need to know nearby road conditions? Information on traffic
and transportation appears. Fed up with that unsightly stack of
videos and CDs? Simply copy them onto the home hard drive.
A video-on-demand channel offers weekly updated films. There is
no need to wait for monthly bills: The system tracks the amount
of gas and electricity used. There is even a health monitor to
check blood pressure, body temperature and heart rate. And if you
are a couch potato, there are on-screen controls for the washing
machine, the microwave, the air conditioner and the oven.
The biggest selling point, however, may be HomNet's remote
accessibility via cellphone.
In the event of a guest arriving in your absence, just click on
your mobile: the door unlocks and the lights come on. Should you
have left the gas on, a message automatically notifies your
mobile phone; you can also switch on the air conditioning to cool
the house before you arrive. Mobiles with digital camera
functions can display real-time images of home interiors, beamed
in from built-in cameras.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/12/23/business/pthome.html
Converging wired and wireless networks : South Korea -- Dec. 28,
2004
One of the most notable government projects is the installation
of the broadband convergence network, or BcN.
The concept of the broadband convergence network is a massive Internet
protocol to which people can connect from a wide range of
terminals from nearly everywhere. The project is seen as Korea's
most significant attempt to create an integrated service
environment that combines wired and wireless communication,
broadcasts and data transmission.
mobile virtual network operator
system
Government officials are designing the broadband convergence
network to provide Internet access with nationwide coverage at
the speeds of 50Mbps to 100Mbps, which is about 50 times faster
than current conventional services. The network infrastructure is
expected to provide the base for future information and
communication technologies such as Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6),
next-generation mobile telephony, sensor-based computing and
radio frequency identification
technology. ( rfid ..verichip is rfid )
KT, electronics giant Samsung
Electronics Co., and other software developers will work under
the Octave consortium, investing 13.6
trillion won in the trial projects that will
focus on developing technologies for television-based
electronic commerce, voice-over-Internet protocol applications
and radio frequency identification networks.
KT is also considered the frontrunner for the portable
Internet servcies, dubbed by Korean officials as
WiBro (wireless broadband). Wibro, designed to provide
wider coverage than wireless LAN services and faster
connection than third-generation mobile telephony, will offer
high-speed Internet access up to 1Mbps to receiver devices moving
at speeds up to 70 kilometers per hour.
Telecommunication companies hope the portable Internet
will optimize the combination of wireless communication and
broadcasts under an Internet protocol backbone, enabling them to
create and market new value-added services that target a wider
audience.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2004/12/28/200412280014.asp
High speed telecommunications multi-functionality
His 10-megabit-per-second service from
telecommunications company Bredbandsbolaget is up to 20 times
faster than conventional cable modems, enabling a user to
download a two-hour movie in a matter of minutes rather than
hours.
But within the next two years, multimegabit
broadband will be a reality in most countries, analysts said, as
telecommunications companies invest vast sums to upgrade their
phone networks with high-speed chip sets and new fiber lines.
Like its slower predecessors, multimegabit
broadband services have limitations. Most notably,
customers must live near -- between a quarter- and half-mile --
of the telecoms exchange point.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=6067639§ion=news
Wireless
Facial Recognition ?
Digital Matching .... Wireless Data Transfer -- Dec.
27, 2004
Spy sleuths ... cellphones for sleuths
Derdack developed the wireless data
transfer aspects of the software, and Germany's
Frauenhofer Institute, whose scientists developed the MP3 audio
compression format, developed the digital
recognition and sorting features to plow
through art databases.
This type of solution is going to become
increasingly prevalent as cellphone network speeds increase and
people realize what is possible by wireless," Derdack said.
With a photo and a quick call, it may indeed be possible
someday to catch a thief.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/12/26/business/wireless27.html
PCtvt --August 16, 2004
Reddy, a pioneering researcher in artificial intelligence and a
professor at Carnegie Mellon University, plans to unveil his
project this year. It is called the PCtvt, a $250
personal computer that is wirelessly networked for the four
billion people around the world who live on less than $2,000 a
year.
He says his combination PC can find a market in developing
countries, particularly those with large populations of
illiterate people, because it can be controlled by a simple
television remote- control device and can function as a television,
telephone and videophone.
With a small team of students and faculty at Carnegie
Mellon's West Coast campus in Mountain View, Reddy has built
a simple control screen that allows the PCtvt to be used for
audio and video conferencing, electronic mail and viewing local
newspapers on the Web through a TV remote control.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=534041.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/534041.html
Wi-Fi
Wi- Fi and NFC ( Near Field Communication Forum)
http://www.iht.com/articles/510996.html
Cell Phones TVs ...built-in tuners receive broadcasts -- April
19, 2004
http://www.iht.com/articles/515699.html
NFC
Near Field Communication Forum ( NFC) Phones and TV's
http://www.commsdesign.com/news/tech_beat/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18400759
Wi-Fi
and Transportation
Boston installs GPS + RFID
web-enabled buses -- March 2005
MBTA and Wi- Fi Accessibility
Once installed, the system
will provide subway passengers with the ability to utilize
wireless voice and data devices, including cellular telephones
and hand-held Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). The license
also includes the right to expand the wireless network to other
stations and tunnels… a move that would generate additional
non-fare revenue for the MBTA to increase ridership and hopefully
extend the service to other branches of commuter service if it is
widely accepted and utilized.
“Enhanced communication within the T system is not just a
matter of convenience for customers,” said Transportation
Secretary Daniel A. Grabauskas. “It also has a critical
public security aspect to it, as passengers will have increased
ability to report safety issue to the appropriate
personnel.”
http://www.bostonpocketpc.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2713
"In the case of the CharlieCard system, a backend database
would store information about each time a CharlieCard is used to
purchase a bus or subway ride. A transaction record in a
database would likely contain the following pieces of information
about a purchase:
1. The ID number of the CharlieCard making the
purchase
2. Date and time of the purchase
3. Amount of the fare
4. An ID number of the fare box where the CharlieCard
was scanned.
5. And maybe a digital photo of the person making the
purchase
Other parts of
the CharlieCard backend database would contain tables which hold
information about CharlieCard owners, fare boxes, location of
stations, routes, etc.The whole purpose of RFID tags is to make
it easy to put data into a database about someone's or somethings
activities.
A backend
database might also be used to keep track of where a bus has been
via a GPS receiver." --- rms
Miscellaneous
In Silver -- June 15, 2006
The process requires three materials, Dr.
Mahabadi says. Most polymers - the molecules found in plastics -
are insulators, and these can be printed quite easily. The
semiconductor material will also be a type of polymer, he says.
For the more complex conductor, XRCC researchers are working with
tiny particles of silver suspended in a solvent that will
evaporate after being applied to the tag, leaving a layer of
silver behind.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060615.gtxeroxjun15/BNStory/Business/home
Hi-Tech House -- Feb. 7, 2006
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=01300000BJJR
3G Walkman Phone -- Oct. 17, 2005
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Japanese-Swedish mobile
phone maker Sony Ericsson on Monday unveiled a new third
generation technology mobile phone handset which includes
a digital music player and a camera
The new 3G Walkman phone, which has a 2-megapixel
camera and allows users to download and browse video games and
graphics, will be available at the end of the year.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051017/tc_nm/telecoms_sonyericsson_dc;_ylt=AizrNGUuDYTZmInKB13XuUOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3cjE
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Changing
the Internet
-- Aug. 30, 2005
... the network will focus on security, "pervasive
computing" environments populated by mobile, wireless and
sensor networks, control
of critical infrastructure and the ability to handle new
services that can be used by millions of people
[Leonard] Kleinrock also said it
would be possible to design a network that would be better able
to handle traffic from the edge of the network, at the level of
individual users. In the next decade, computer researchers expect
an explosion of data from mobile and wireless devices as well as
sensors that will vastly outnumber current personal computers
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/29/business/net.php
"light messaging" and "flash message" -- May
23, 2004
The 3220 is currently the only
phone in the world that allows users to send mid-air text
messages called “light messaging”. By waving the unit
from side to side, the Xpress-on Fun Shell lights up
to write messages that appear to float in mid-air.
This has become possible because of the special arrangement of
LEDs on the back of the Xpress-on cover. When the phone is
waved in the air, a motion sensor in the phone makes the
lights blink in a sequence that spells out specific letters. An
optical illusion turns the sequence of
letters into a message that appears to hang in the air
The phone also features a flash
message capability. Like other phones, the 3220 can send
text messages (SMS) and multi-media messages (MMS). But unlike
other phones, the 3220 can send a Flash Message.
The person to whom you send your message does not need to press
any button or open his inbox to read incoming messages. Your
message is instantly flashed on the screen until it is
read. Although Flash messages can be sent by computer
or thru operator support, this is the first time a flash message
feature is integrated into a phone.
http://www.mb.com.ph/TECH2005052335306.html
PalmOne LifeDrive: Mobile Manager --May 22, 2005
The LifeDrive is the first product from palmOne's new mobile
manager category of products. This new class of device is the
first PDA released domestically to include a built in hard drive.
It's aim is to be a repository for your digital content, be that
photos, movies, music or large volumes of office documents.
The LifeDrive takes
the traditional PDA look with a modern minimalist look.
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=7840
American Power Conversion Adapter -- Jan. 6, 2004
But one product that cuts down on some of the
weight in her computer bag is a $60 DC-to-AC power converter made
by American Power Conversion. It enables her to plug her laptop
into the different types of power outlets available on some
aircraft, as well as the cigarette-lighter sockets in cars.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/01/04/business/gadget.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/04/business/gadget.html
How wireless cellular networks work
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_network
http://www.cellular.co.za/howagsm.htm
Cellphones with GPS receivers -- Dec. 9, 2004 ... cellular vs.
satellite
triangulation and gyroscopes
But cellphones with GPS receivers
have brought the cost within reach of almost anyone. Leong says
the monthly cost of the application is now around $20 to $25 per
phone, plus airtime charges. Prices vary, depending on how often
the location is reported, but Leong says a $20-a-month,
1.5-megabyte package serves most needs.
Even in-vehicle systems
today can use the cellular network to
report their location to a central point, instead of transmitting
that information by satellite as early systems did. That reduces
costs noticeably.
Most advances in this area can be attributed to
the U.S. government's requirement that cellular carriers
develop the ability to pinpoint the locations of
cellphones that call 911 emergency services to within 150 metres
95 per cent of the time. That has accelerated the arrival of GPS-equipped
phones and led carriers to explore using the cellular
network itself to locate phones more accurately.
http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&lid=1&sid=57604&adBanner=Networking
Tiny digital projectors for cellphone cameras-- Nov.8, 2004
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/05/business/ptimage06.html
"jeremiah" : Putting a face to Big Brother --Nov. 8,
2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3982367.stm
TVs interactive red-button
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3974523.stm
HD TV in Europe -- Sept. 17, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3652402.stm
Understanding VoIP ...Voice over Internet Protocol ( Internet as
telephone)
http://www.fcc.gov/voip/
Free Broadband net calls -- Nov. 10, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3997145.stm
Understanding Broadband
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/689887.stm
Northern Ireland set to be 100% broadband--April 6, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3578763.stm
Devices change faster than the rules
Radio Waves: too many devices; too many interferring frequencies
While travelers may know that cellphones are signal producers and
comply with rules banning their use in flight, their
understanding of the risks posed by other devices is fuzzier.
Passengers with laptops equipped with Wi-Fi cards may turn on the
laptop without grasping that it is broadcasting, looking for an
access point. Some may turn on a wirelessly equipped hand-held to
look at a calendar and forget that it, too, is radiating
http://www.iht.com/articles/511032.html
What is ? ......
"SMS" text messaging for mobile phones?
European Constitution now in text messaging
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=15090
"texture mapping"
3D Chips (graphics, images)
It was a grim lesson for Huang, who co-founded Nvidia in
1993 after leaving LSI Logic to start the company with two
friends from Sun Microsystems. At the time there were no 3D games
in the PC market, and no one was attempting to use texture
mapping, a technique for wrapping a digital image around an
object to give it a more realistic appearance.
http://www.iht.com/articles/514652.html
VeriCode Systems is a systems
integrator based in Bolingbrook, Ill. It provides a
full range of services, including systems design, installation,
and integration for automatic data capture systems in warehouses.
SAMSys's readers will be integrated with VeriCode's Pallet
Track and Carton Track solutions, which provide manufacturers
and distributors with real-time information
needed to keep manufacturing and shipping operations running
efficiently.
http://www.vericode.com
VeriTec http://www.veritecinc.com/about.html
VeriTec VS Code:
VeriCode Electronic Fingerprint http://www.veritecinc.com/technologies.html ( Ashland, Massachusetts)
VeriTec: Bio- ID Card http://www.irish-industrial-components.com/prod_veritech.htm
Veri-Logic ( integrated labeling and tracking) http://www.vericodesystems.com/
VerifiCard( Code verification) http://www.sics.se/fdt/projects/vericode/
Verifying Smart Cards
http://www.sics.se/fdt/projects/vericode/projects.html
New PDA's
http://www.winnetmag.com/windowspaulthurrott/Article/ArticleID/42479/windowspaulthurrott_42479.html
IMAGE
Cellphone TVs
-- June 28, 2005
As of this week, the French pay-TV company Canal Plus
Groupe, which is controlled by Vivendi Universal,
plans to give subscribers to Vivendi's SFR cellphone service
access to about 20 television channels over their
phones. It will mark the first time a
broadcaster has migrated a selection of its own channels onto a
mobile platform. In the past, telephone operators like SFR's
rival Orange, owned by France Télécom, had to negotiate with
individual broadcasters to carry programs
Canal Plus will offer channels with news,
sports updates, cartoons and documentaries. But there will not be
live sports or recently released Hollywood films that are
available to viewers who subscribe to Canal Plus services via
cable or satellite
The service uses so-called third-generation mobile
telephone technology, capable of transmitting data at high
speeds. By the end of the year, Vivendi hopes to offer the
service in a more robust digital format, called DVB-H, or
Digital Video Broadcast Handheld, for a broad range of
portable devices
News, news, news
Viewers also are likely to snatch periods of up to 10
minutes between appointments, or while riding the subway,
obliging program makers to create
constantly updated news programs
Even so, some of the biggest names in technology are
bullish about the potential for hand-held television.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/27/business/canal.php
T-Mobile cellphones web enabled
-- June 30, 2005
With the Google home page, we want to tell our customers
from the first moment that they are carrying with them
the Internet they know from home," Ulli Gritzuhn, a
T-Mobile board member, said at a news conference
As part of its Internet campaign, dubbed
"web'n'walk," T-Mobile also will
introduce mobile devices with larger displays
that are better suited to the Web, and the company will offer
cheaper rates, Gritzuhn said
Web'n'walk will be introduced in July in Germany and
Austria and later this year in Britain, the Netherlands and the
Czech Republic. The devices sold in the campaign include
the Sidekick II, a miniature computer that has become a fashion
item in the United States after celebrities including Paris
Hilton started using it; Nokia's 6680 model; and two hand-held
computers.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/29/business/tmobile.php
Cellphone with Full Internet Browsing -- June 28, 2005
http://www.phonemag.com/index.php/weblog/read_more/06272005full_internet_browsing_in_docomos_handset/
TV movies etc. to hand-helds without PC -- Jan 4, 2005
2 Wire
SAN FRANCISCO Advanced
Micro Devices [ AMD ] will unveil a chip this week to let people download
digital-television [ HDTV ] programs from a set-top box
to a portable media player, without a personal computer.
The Alchemy chip translates various file types into high-definition
video [ HDV ],
removing the need for a PC, he said
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/01/03/business/amd.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/03/business/amd.html
VConex
The VConex engineering team will expand
on proprietary technologies developed by Light Speed Labs
to create new product categories which integrate video
acquisition, storage, retrieval and display into single solutions
with secure global data access over network infrastructures.
Initially the Company will focus on network displays for
public view,
network digital recorders, high definition cameras and a combination
of all of these products to make a complete network solution
for video switching and control. VConex will also develop
network recorders for security applications that can be embedded
into public view displays to yield standalone
display/players.
The Display Systems Group (DSG) is a global provider of
integrated display products and systems to the public
information, financial, point-of-sale and medical imagining
markets. DSG partners with leading hardware vendors to offer the
highest quality liquid crystal display (LCD), plasma, cathode ray
tube (CRT) and customized display monitors. DSG engineers design
custom display solutions that include specialized finishes,
touch-screens, protective panels, custom enclosures and private
branding. For more information on Richardson's Display Systems
Group please visit http://display.rell.com.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Dec/1100539.htm
3D infrared animation brings life
to the image-- Nov. 28, 2004
First, the animators created the
movie’s environments and backgrounds in the computer, much
of them based on Van Allsburg’s illustrations. These virtual
sets were then recreated on a soundstage using wire frame
recreations of objects with a grid of infrared receivers
suspended high overhead. The actors perform their scenes wearing
Lycra suits covered with sensors, and 150 sensors are placed on
their faces. Using these sensors, the receivers are able to
accurately capture their movements and facial expressions, which
are then digitized into the computers.
With the help of a costume designer and
hairstylist to visualize the characters, something unheard of for
an animated feature, the animators create "skins" to
place over the computerized skeletons captured on set. This great
attention to detail has allowed Zemeckis to create some of the
most lifelike computer animated humans ever seen on screen.
http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO2004112823438.html
KODAK AND IBM TEAM UP:
Eastman Kodak and IBM said they had agreed to develop and make image
sensors for digital still cameras and camera phones.
IBM said it was pursuing the partnership because of anticipated
growth in the image sensor market, a new venture for the
technology giant. Financial terms of the pact were not released.
Image sensors act as the "eye" of a digital
camera by converting light into electric charges.
(AP)
--- International Herald Tribune Sept. 17, 2004
ARTICLES :
Specifications not always accurate -- Dec. 27, 2004
Until a few years ago, most CPUs had relatively similar
designs. So the faster the unit's internal clock ran, the more
work it could do per second. But that simple calculus broke down
when Intel moved from its Pentium III to its current
Pentium 4 family of processors.
"They went from a chip that performs a lot of work per
clock cycle to one that performs less per clock," said
Scott Wasson, who edits the hardware review site The Tech Report
( www.tech-report.com ).
Ulrike Diehlmann, director of the test center for PC World
magazine, notes that clock speed is now just one factor that
determines a processor's performance. Others include the amount
of built-in chip memory, known as cache, and the speed of the
connection between the CPU and other parts of the PC
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/12/23/business/ptspecs.html
Symantec ( Norton) and Veritas ( Data storage software) merge --
Dec. 15, 2004
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/12/14/business/veritas.html
'GRID' CONSORTIUM: A group of technology companies
including International Business Machines, Intel, Hewlett-Packard
and Sun Microsystems planned to announce the formation of a
consortium to accelerate the adoption of utility-like grid
computing in the corporate world.
The group, called the Globus Consortium, will develop software
for business uses of grid computing, and will educate companies
about the technology.
Globus's software pools computing resources from many
machines in the fashion of a virtual supercomputer to focus on
one task. The Globus project was started in 1996 by scientists at
research laboratories and universities. The U.S. government
provided most of the early financing to develop the software.
(NYT) ---International Herald Tribune Jan. 25, 2005
The following information is not confirmed. It
could be an Urban Legend to discredit the 3 angels who
fly through the heavens with a message in Revelation 14.
BlueBeam Sky Image
http://www.hiddencodes.com/blue-beam.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project238.html
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/hoax/bluebeam.htm
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/hoax/af.shtml
BLUE GENE to analyze signals from
Outer Space -- MARE NOSTRUM System
"O earth, earth. earth : Hear the word of the Lord "
Jeremiah
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/59053
http://www.astron.nl/
Low frequency array http://www.lofar.org/
Deception in the Last Days
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2005/donnad126-2.htm
Techno-phony rapture
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2004/jhoyle524.htm
and
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1375.cfm
and
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1378.cfm
Green Neon Light Display :
"celestial advertising" and HAARP
First
Artificial Neon Sky Show Created
By shooting intense radio beams into the night sky,
researchers created a modest neon light show visible from the
ground. The process is not well understood, but scientists
speculate it could one day be employed to light a city or
generate celestial advertisements.
Researchers with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research
Program (HAARP) project in Alaska tickled the upper atmosphere to
the extent that it glowed with green speckles.
The HAARP experiment involves acres of antennas and a 1
megawatt generator. The scientists sent radio pulses skyward
every 7.5 seconds, explained team leader Todd Pederson of the Air
Force Research Laboratory.
http://www.livescience.com/technology/050202_light_show.html
Implanted Chips ( other than verichip)
IntraOcular Second Sight chip restores motion, light, &
objects to the blind ( sight impaired) -- May
3, 2005
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (ARVO 2005 Annual Meeting) -
Researchers from the University of Southern California and the
Doheny Eye Institute's Doheny Retina Institute will be presenting
data on the first six patients implanted with an intraocular
retinal prosthesis-more popularly referred to as an artificial
retina-developed and manufactured in partnership with Second
Sight Medical Products, Inc., of Sylmar, Calif.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050503103503.htm
Solar cell implant may restore some sight for the blind -- May 1,
2005
The Artificial Silicon RetinaTM (ASR) was invented by
Dr. Alan Chow, pediatric ophthalmologist and Rush faculty member,
who developed the chip and founded Optobionics, with his brother
Vincent, vice president of engineering. Optobionics is located in
Naperville, Illinois.
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=9661
Spinach : New Hope for the Blind
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 26, 2001 – Spinach, touted
in the Popeye cartoon for its ability to strengthen the body, may
prove even more valuable for restoring vision to people who are
legally blind. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak
Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Southern
California hope to learn whether a protein from spinach could
replace a non-functioning light receptor in the eye. People who
suffer from age-related macular degeneration or retinitis
pigmentosa, diseases that are leading causes of blindness
worldwide, may find hope in this research
In the United States, degeneration of the retina has
left 20,000 people blind and 500,000 people visually impaired.
Retinitis pigmentosa is an inherited condition of the retina in
which specific photoreceptor cells, called rods, degenerate. The
loss of function of these rod cells diminishes a person’s
ability to see in dim light and gradually can reduce peripheral
vision.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/09/010927072527.htm
Other :
Electronic pen --July 11, 2005
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/10/business/wireless11.php
Salvation www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm
Bible www.blueletterbible.org