GestureStorm. “Cybernet Systems Corporation has introduced the worlds first fully functional weather map management system that utilizes both body tracking and gesture recognition technology.”
Cybernet Systems Corporation
Teeny tiny meshcube. “…it is a hardware platform that enables the creation of mesh networks quickly and easily in areas without infrastructure, either as a temporary (disaster areas) or permanent (libraries) wireless backbone.”
Engadget
Downtown Spokane gets WiFi. “The “hot zone,” as it is referred to by Spokane’s mayor, covers 100 blocks of downtown Spokane. Taking advantage of recent advances in WiFi technology, the network uses fewer than ten antennas to blanket the area and cost less than US$75,000 to install.”
ArsTechnica
Budding DJs get mixing on mobiles. “Users can add their own sound effects, such as vocals or bass, and can save the mix as their unique ringtone.”
BBC NEWS
Forget Radio, Tune In to Net. “The new medium still has hurdles to overcome, but analysts predict music fans will eventually stream their music to a variety of wireless devices, allowing them to take the music anywhere.”
Wired News
Companion Toolbar and Community. “Amplify is a free companion toolbar that gives you the power to find, collect, save and share content from multiple online sources in personalized pages called Amps.”
Amplify
Your cellphone takes pictures. Now what?. “Within the next two years, the number of camera phones in consumer hands is expected to be double that of digital cameras, said Phil McKinney, the vice president and chief technology officer for HP’s communication, media and entertainment division in Washington.”
IHT
Solvent thirtysomethings turn backs on rat race. “Almost 1 million people in their 30s are expected to use the equity they have built up in their homes to start up businesses, downshift to a less stressful way of life or travel in the next decade, according to new research.”
Guardian Unlimited
Solvent thirtysomethings turn backs on rat race. “Almost 1 million people in their 30s are expected to use the equity they have built up in their homes to start up businesses, downshift to a less stressful way of life or travel in the next decade, according to new research.”
Guardian Unlimited
Superhighway code. “Ford is hoping to convert its cars into mobile traffic and weather sensors, capable of alerting traffic authorities and other vehicles to jams and dangerous driving conditions on the roads.”
e4engineering.com
After The Blog Is Gone: SnipSnap Plays Bliki. “A bliki is a blog that also has wiki capabilities. That means, an easy-to-use online publishing tool, that a non-technical person can operate, and that integrates the ability for readers of the content to easily add, edit, revise and change it without needing to know programming or code.”
RG News
Opinion: Watch out! Big brother’s beginning to peek. “What happens when RFID tags are placed on everything from your razor (as Gillette is already doing) to your tires (Michelin is experimenting with this) to your shirt (as Benetton planned, until swayed by consumer protest)? You will walk around virtually bugged.”
Whittier Daily News
Senate OKs antipiracy plan. “The U.S. Senate on Friday overwhelmingly approved a controversial proposal that would let federal prosecutors file civil lawsuits against suspected copyright infringers, with fines reaching tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
CNET News.com
NextPage Previews ‘Document Management for the Masses’. “What makes Chrome different from typical document management approaches is that it supports a distributed work model rather than requiring documents to be stored in a central system…”
EWeek
Q&A With MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte. “Peer-to-peer is key. I mean that in every form conceivable: cell phones without towers, sharing leftover food, bartering, etc. “
BW Online
Outed: Skype project to dial real phone numbers. “I just spent nearly ten minutes on the phone to Paris, at a cost of about 10 pence. Using Skype, dialling a Paris landline number, that is.”
The Register
The Intelligent Internet. “This synthesis of computer intelligence and the Internet is rapidly creating a powerful new global communication system that is convenient, productive, and transformative: the Intelligent Internet. Here are three simple examples of what should become common soon.”
Government Computer News
Sender ID e-mail spec submitted to standards body. “Sender ID maintains lists of IP addresses from which sent e-mail can be traced, and if adopted as a standard, could provide a way to close loopholes that allow e-mail senders to spoof or fake the origin of their message.”
InfoWorld:
The Digital Dozen. “It’s what the Japanese – particularly the under-25 crowd – have been doing with their mobiles that’s worth watching. Because it just might yield a few clues about where our own so-called wireless revolution is – or should be – headed.”
TIME Digital
iChat AV at 35,000 Feet. “Although the wireless Internet connection involved sending data from an Airbus traveling at 500 mph through a satellite receiver in a 20,000-mile earth orbit, conferencing with Zelenka was as easy as clicking his video status button.”
Apple
Toshiba develops tiny fuel cell. “The Japanese electronics giant said the methanol fuel cell could power a gadgets such as a digital music player for 20 hours.”
BBC NEWS
Push To Talk Pioneer Announces Unique ‘Push To E-mail’ Application. “…allows users to send a streaming mp3 voice message from their phone to any e-mail recipient quickly and easily by simply pressing the Direct Connect(R) button on the side of every Nextel phone.”
Forbes.com
The Network Is People. “It’s akin to friend inflation. You get a kind of fake niceness. They need to lose their buzz and go away, and people need to focus on their true networks and circles of friends.”
Fast Company Now
E-Mail And SMS Convergence Product To Save British Businesses Millions And Create New Revenue Stream For Dealers And Resellers. “The new software package, called OutlookSMS, allows users to send and receive mobile phone text messages directly from e-mail packages including Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express.”
Techfocus
D-Link India develops low-cost Linux networking gear. “D-Link India Ltd. has developed low-cost, Linux-based networking equipment such as routers and firewalls, and VOIP phones, specially designed for the requirements of emerging economies…”
InfoWorld
Welcome to PubSub.com. “PubSub is like a search that never stops. When you create a PubSub subscription, we’ll watch for results as new information is published on the web. Any time matching information appears, you’ll see it in your news aggregator (or you can read it on the web).”
PubSub.com
RSS in Government. “News about how RSS is being used by international, federal, state, and local governments.”
rssgov.com
The Digital Village. “If you can conceptualize the world’s 4 billion poor as a market, rather than as a burden, they must be considered the biggest source of growth left in the world,” says C.K. Prahalad, a leading management theorist who studies developing markets.”
BW Online
Gingrich, Kennedy Pushing ‘Wired’ Hospitals. “On Monday, the political partisans put their party differences aside to tout electronic prescriptions, online patient records and an integrated, paperless health-care system.”
EWeek
A Marketer’s Dream: Your Cell Phone. “Our biggest complaint from teens is that they don’t get enough messages,” says Jonathan Linner, CEO of Enpocket. “Every time your phone beeps, it shows you’re popular.”
BW Online
Who Reads Blogs?. “The survey learned that 61 percent of blog readers were more than 30 years old and nearly 40 percent of those surveyed have a household income of $90,000 or more.”
iMedia Connection
Cellphone hide-and-seek. “What you (the parent) do is hide the cellphone, having first fired up a little application that periodically calls out phrases like ‘over here!’ through the phone’s speaker.”
Engadget
This Is How We Will Meet: SmartMeeting. “People gather together in an actual three-dimensional space and can gather, discuss and hold effective meetings in front of a business table or while facing a panoramic giant projection screen.”
RG News
NetworkAnatomy Homepage. “CommanderGauntlet™ (currently in development) is a comprehensive wireless communications device incorporating voice, data, audio, video, text messaging and extreme lighting.”
Mobile Vanity Numbers, Saudi Style. “The mobile number 055555555 was sold for SR 250,000 (US$ 67,000 Approx).”
Gizmodo
Lots of photos, not many prints. “…simple digital sharing through e-mail and other methods threatens to undermine the need for photo printing, unless vendors convince consumers that prints are an archival method as well as a sharing vehicle.”
Digital Photography Review
UPS Starts European Deployment Of Its Latest Wireless Technology. “It involves pager-sized Bluetooth scanners, worn on the middle finger, which send package tracking data to small Wi-Fi (802.11b) terminals worn on the waist by package sorters. The Wi-Fi devices then send the tracking data to UPS’s computer network, where it can be accessed by customers.”
UPS
New generation embraces mobiles. “Even toddlers are able to tell the difference between incoming phone calls and text messages said Professor Michael Hulme, chairman of Teleconomy.”
BBC NEWS
VOIP Steals Show at Supercomm. “A recent Goldman Sachs survey of 200 CIOs found that 35 percent of them plan to install at least some VOIP equipment within the next 12 months.”
EWeek
Nike Color-Change Concept Prototype. “As the runner speeds up- the simple display (Electric Plaid) in their shoes changes color to tell them them if they are meeting their fitness goals.”
International Fashion Machines
China’s Static Mobile Phone, And Its Mobile Static Phone. “Guanri, for example, of Shenzhen, sells several phones that use either CDMA or GSM wireless technology for phones that either sit in your office, or work as payphones, both for public places and ‘supervised locations’,…”
LOOSE wire
US hardcore not interested in the Net. “As a result of this enlarged hardcore group of non-users, Net use among US adults has flattened out at around two thirds of the population with Net growth slowing from a “sprint to a crawl”.”
The Register
Translating my talk into Italian on a Wiki. “Luca Lizzeri is working to translate my DRM talk into Italian — there’s a Wiki where you can contribute!”
Boing Boing
Effort to save UK’s web heritage. “Millions of web pages covering all aspects of life in the UK are to be archived in a trial project led by the British Library”
BBC NEWS
Aussie troops to become Wi-Fi GIs. “The Aussie army will use the kit to test voice applications and supply connectivity to handheld and portable computers for the delivery of maps, intelligence and orders. Commanders can contact soldiers en masse…”
The Register
Tech Alliance on ‘Digital Living’ to Be Unveiled. “The group, to be called the Digital Living Network Alliance, aims to develop the fledgling market for electronic devices that can easily send and share music, movies, television programs across the home.”
Reuters.com
HP Launching Digital Camera Test Program at Hotels. “Starting this week and running through Sept. 20, guests can check out the cameras, take pictures and print them using an HP Photosmart 245 photo printer installed at the hotels…”
Reuters.com
North Americans confused about VoIP. “…six in ten of those who have heard of VoIP are confused about how the Internet-based telephone service really works.”
The Register
Stealth wallpaper could keep WLANs secure. “UK defence contractor BAE Systems has developed a stealth wallpaper to beat electronic eavesdropping on company Wi-Fi networks.”
silicon.com
BW Online | June 21, 2004 | Your Lapel Is Ringing. “In the coming year, you’ll see cell phones that are cleverly disguised in watches, bracelets, jacket lapels, backpacks…”
‘Wireless pebbles’ track glaciers. “The low-powered pebble probes are placed near the bottom of the glaciers and move with the ice, recording temperature, pressure, speed and the makeup of the glacier’s sediment.”
BBC NEWS
Pressure Adds Depth to Displays. “…people are able to use as many as six different levels of pressure for discrete selection tasks, but that pressure is only useful if there is also continuous visual feedback.
Technology Review
‘Gene chip’ under skin will detect cancers. “By the year 2025 the first signs you have cancer may be picked up by a tiny chip implanted under the skin that will send a warning signal to your local hospital when it detects changes to your DNA.”
Guardian Unlimited
Cars of the future to be assembled atom by atom. “Your next car could have a nanocoated windshield that resists cracking and breaking, a lighter body that provides better crash protection or even cup holders that keep your coffee steaming in the morning and your Coke cold on the ride home.”
Detroit News
Sprint claims ‘world speed record’ for Internet. “US telecom group Sprint and a Swedish partner say they have set a new world speed record of data transport over the Internet of 4.23 gigabits per second.”
ABC News Online
Roundshot’s 70 megapixel Livecam. “…a Swiss company called Roundshot is selling a new 70 megapixel webcam that can capture a full 360 degree panoramic image.”
Engadget
petfrog: portable network-software of the future. “The petfrog is the first wireless communication and computing concept with a totally integrated hardware, software, and content user-interface.”
frog
Can European Carriers Locate A Business Model For Location Based Services?. “Instead, they’re interested in safety and security applications. When OnStar focused on those aspects of their service, their subscriber numbers shot upwards.”
TheFeature
New FlipStart pics and details. “This time around, I was sent some photos of the most recent design of the FlipStart, so keeping in mind that this photo is of a in-development machine and that not everything is finalized, let’s have a look at what’s changed.”
Handtop HQ
“Teacube” on sale, a mini-appliance of T-Engine. “T-Engine” Project aims for effective and standardized development of various embedded systems, to realize “ubiquitous computing environment”, in which embedded computers in everything are linked on network to provide us convenience, safety, and comfortability.”
Sony Announces Streaming Music for Phones. “The service, called StreamMan as a nod to Sony’s Walkman, allows users to customize their own streaming radio station, which will play out through handsets.”
TheFeature
Grand Haven, Michigan’s citywide WiFi phone service. “…anybody willing to install enough hotspots could build their own wireless phone network on the cheap.”
Engadget
metroblogging. “a group of regional bloggers give each site a new perspective on daily life. less calendar listing, more friendly advice.”
metroblogging
Italy School Foils Cheats by Blocking Phone Signals. “Mobile phone-savvy teenagers tempted to cheat on exams by sending text messages or scanning pictures of tests could be thwarted by a device that jams signals inside the school walls.”
Reuters.com
Fractals Show Machine Intentions. “The interface represents a machine’s internal state in a way that makes it possible for observers to interpret the machine’s behavior.”
Technology Review
New Intel Chip Aims to Boost Features of Home PCs. “The chip, called Grantsdale, will work in tandem with Intel’s Pentium 4 processors to give PCs more powerful sound and graphics, a speedier link for peripherals and memory, and an ability to run a wireless data network.”
Yahoo! News
SMOOL HO|MEdia. “SMOOL decided that HO|MEdia needs to have four basic functions: Entertainment; Information; Communication; Ambience.”
SMOOL
Big Bang!. “Digitalization is creating products that can’t be categorized as tech or consumer electronics. The walls are coming down.”
BW Online
Gate 3 WorkClub. “At the heart of the WorkClub is a vision of a new kind of place that blends the comforts of home with the professionalism of an office, with attention to every detail and an eye for the magical.”
Gate 3 Workclub
BT’s Wi-Fi service in the dock. “When new points of law arise during the course of the hearing, they should be able to carry out the necessary research without leaving the building.”
ZDNet UK News
US House Panel Approves Bill to Combat Spyware. “Lawmakers on a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee voted unanimously for a bill that would require purveyors of spyware on the Internet to notify people before loading new software on their machines.”
Reuters.com
MessagEase Onscreen Keyboard. “MessagEase’s keyboard, on the other hand, takes one twentieth of the screen area , yet it provides all characters you find on a regular computer keyboard, and even some you don’t find there!”
ExIdeas
Teleportation breakthrough made. “The landmark experiments are being viewed as a major advance in the quest to achieve ultra-fast computers, inside which teleportation could provide a form of invisible “quantum wiring”.
BBC NEWS
Councils go mobile to cut red tape. “The London Borough of Lewisham has found maintaining its 30,000 tenanted homes far easier since it gave its workforce of plumbers, joiners and other maintenance staff mobile devices.”
BBC
Word Refuseniks: Never Upgrade. “It has almost every feature we want or need,” Fowler said, citing the software’s speed and stability, and the way it handles footnotes.”
Wired
Voice has peaked, the future is data. “Video, music and games will be growing at an impressive rate compared with more nascent data applications such as messaging, which will have begun to stagnate by 2008.”
The Register
WiMax starting to make its move. “What Wi-Fi did for the LAN, the longer-range WiMax could do for metropolitan areas and last-mile access.”
InfoWorld
Weblog networks as social ecosystems . “A great summary of why weblogs are critical social networking tools and a bung of valuable reference links.”
Mathemagenic
ChoiceMail Puts a Stranglehold on Spam . “It uses all the names in your electronic address book to create a “whitelist” of people you probably want to hear from.”
Reuters.com
Talk for ten times as long. “…a new low-power chip for cellphones that cuts power leakage dramatically, giving 20-30 hours of talk time instead of the 2-3 hours you get at present.”
Engadget
Personal Computers. “…we’re ready for more choices: machines designed for particular jobs, particular rooms of the house, or particular types of people…”
BW Online
Hyperlinkomatic : Introduction. “You can grab links, makes notes, set multiple categories, search links, import links from web pages, upload bookmarks, create bookmarks files, share links, publish links. It is, in short, a place to keep your links.”
Hyperlinkomatic
iPod pirate radio bumper stickers. “I figure that anyone that can read the bumper sticker– on the I-5, at a stop light– if intrigued could tune in and listen to whatever I’m listening to.”
Boing Boing
Silence mobile phone chair. “Silence is an easy chair designed for the undisturbed use of your mobile phone.”
STUDIO ANTTI E
WiFi and Bluetooth together 4ever. “Philips Semiconductor is introducing a single chip with both WiFi and Bluetooth on it that’ll let device makers add both wireless networking standards to their gadgets on the cheap…”
Engadget
Study shows China to have 118 million 3G wireless subscribers by 2008. “According to a study by In-Stat/MDR, the number of mobile subscribers in China will increase from 268.69 million in 2003 to 497.86 million by 2008, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 11.7 percent. By that time, the penetration rate of mobile subscribers will reach 37.6 percent.”
People’s Daily Online
Video-Game Graphics Hit the Road“This navigation system can give you detailed 3-D visual images of the street and corner that you are going to,” said Sony Japan spokesman Shinji Obana. “Compared to conventional GPS navigation systems, it’s much easier to grasp where you are and (in) which direction you have to drive.”
Wired News
Tribe.net allows users to blog social net data. “Examples of the sorts of things one might “Tribecast” include lists of friends, special interest “tribes” one belongs to, or bulletin board listings.”
Boing Boing
Remote pet-cam. “Named ‘Peppot Camera’ (the translation failed this one) the camera sends the images to your email so you can check up on Rover while on vacation.”
Engadget
Wireless. “Part phone, part computer, part TV, and part radio, the newest cell phones blur the divisions of technology.”
BW Online
Wireless Godsends for Businesses. “The biggest consumers of new applications such as video and e-commerce and location-based services will remain worker bees in American business.”
BW Online
Virtual replay. “You can choose a favourite camera position or a player perspective from the menu bar. Hit the Play button to start the replay, or the rewind button to start again.”
BBC SPORT
Company secrets leak via e-mail. “Nearly 40% of workers have received confidential information that was not meant for them according to a poll conducted by e-mail filtering firm SurfControl.”
BBC NEWS
Collaborative, open textbook. “OpenTextBook.org is a collaborative project wherein university students (and others) can turn their course notes into a giant, open textbook.”
Boing Boing
NewsAloud – The Power of Spoken Audio. “NewsAloud personal news agent from NextUp.com finds the stories you want, then reads them aloud in a natural, human sounding voice. NewsAloud can now read RSS Feeds along with other news sources.”
NextUp.com
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