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Source: vnunet.com
Intel to boost wireless networks
Chip giant pushes home-networking plan
Intel is working to improve the interoperability of various home networks that make use of technologies such as Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and 802.11 wireless.
Intel spokeswoman Kea Grilley said the company would unveil its plans - which will include consumer electronic devices as well as the PC and TV - at its upcoming Intel Developer Forum.
"We are planning to talk about the industry need to address consumers' desire to be able to access data, pictures [and] video from any device in the home," Grilley said.
"That requires home networking of course, but we'll need more than that to make the experience seamless," she added.
According to Grilley, the tightly integrated approach to digital media distribution will be easy to install. It is already familiar to consumers and is based on industry standards that include 802.11 wireless networking, UPnP, USB, MP3 and JPEG formats.
Early product prototypes will be on display at the Technology Showcase during the autumn Intel Developer Forum to be held from 9 to 12 September in California.
Rob Enderle, an analyst at Giga Information Group, said this was one of the more interesting and needed initiatives driven by Intel.
"The concept of being able to easily and seamlessly move between a series of wireless networks is critical to the future of wireless," Enderle said.
"Intel's efforts in this area, if successful, could make a substantial difference to how widely wireless is used and to the future growth of the portable computer market," he added.
Source: PC Advisor
Talking technology
Ursula Seymour
Japanese electronics giant, gt;Toshiba is planning to offer Japanese customers a revolutionary headset that will allow them to control devices like PCs, handhelds and household appliances using voice commands.
The company says the Bluetooth headset will have two functions: it will play audio files at CD quality, and the built-in speech recognition technology will covert voice commands into data instructions to create a network between the person using it and the devices they wish to control.
Data is sent to devices using wireless Bluetooth communication technology. The idea is that users living in a wirelessly networked home could controls tasks like turning on their washing machine just by saying 'switch on' or could turn up the heating by saying 'hotter' to thermostat.
Dictation could also be wireless, as users simply speak into the headset and then the voice data is transmitted to a PC via Bluetooth, which will convert the speech into text using voice recognition software. Toshiba sees this function as being useful to professionals like doctors, who could simply dictate a diagnosis into the headset and it would be automatically typed into the patient's notes.
Audio files can be sent from a Bluetooth-enabled PC or mobile audio device and played back on the headset at CD quality.
The headset weighs just 100g, so it shouldn't be too uncomfortable to wear. It is powered by a lithium-ion battery with a claimed life of five hours. A microphone, processor, Bluetooth module, antenna and memory chip are built in, but full specifications and pricing details won't be available until it launches in Japan sometime in the next couple of months.
As for the UK launch, this could be as much as two years away as we are so much further behind Japan in terms of adoption of home networking.
I think that hypothisis has been blown outa the water by all the multicodec players doing what we thought only edig could do... bloatware has no need for MicroOS IMO - Why we are not in Symbian, CE, Palm, P-PC etc.,,
I'm sure it could facilitate CE via a handheld but if the auto unit has CE I don't see us there. RP n FF have told us this many times that these OSs are not our fortee' -
Be nice if we get an announcement per some type of MS relationship to G-Book for Toyota, buy the CE PR put a big damper on my eclipse hopes for/within Toyota's OEM products - Looks like we'll stay aftermarket for a while - but then again I always looked at telematics as an interesting arena but the big boys seem to have its needs covered.
emit...
G-Books using CE bloatware... I see no need for edig there unless to facilitate somehow.
So much for Toyota and not to many cars in China.
emit...
I've retained several preloaded Media Player 8 songs;
Strawberryfire, Like Humans Do - Those battery randomizations are
killer.
All those auto Win XP update downloads are analogous to coming firmware
upgrades to Handhelds... Those upgrades could not only be upgrading
but also checking your Media Libraries. I quit after 3-4
Lol...
Divx to a 4" screen wireless DP e.Dig powered +
New Artist. Next Superstar could be ours.
Sparking Artist into branding players of their own.
Bill Gates - buy e.Digital and Mercury will
really become a new Odyssey.
MSCorona 9/FreeStyle has Samsung and MS STB boxes coming
out this Fall... Here we see MP3esque 'Free' again - The OS
is the selling point - preloaded... in a sense all these new devices are preloaded
at the micro level - dept n capability dictates function-set. I’d like to see FreeStyle
incorporate a DP slot – probably will happen IMO.
Remember - e.Digital, a patented kernel above the rest
JMA members welcome -
Where could we see what they are saying about this?
without querying millions of mp3 fan sites - billboard, WeDigMusic.com should have
appropriate links - mgmt.. gotch ears on.
Upcoming artist best found on College campuses - The Chilly Peppers
showered at Holmes Hall in 1988 whilst there. Never would of thought...
hEY ! Buy our branded device - we'll script ya lota neat stuff.
eBooks n the mist of these new digital artist, Good job Jones on getting D&H.
Soon MP3 Independents paying lil preload fees - e.Digital to new artist has a Napster
type freedom toward advertising and digital expression that is unique.
QDX,WMA, for the premium artist probably via MTV.com/360 - AAC and sPAC push/pulling data on
all those TI-DSPs via IBOC handhelds ck showed us...
Those suckers will be real-time broadband sniffing at StarBucks
and inside Transworld FYEs Kiosks. RedDotNet is so mass with its Dot
Stations they're scratching their heads at the thought
of plugging into scripted handhelds.
Remember ' Ernies Sports Bar ' TuchTunes.com is BOSE and are 2 songs for a buck.
Yes... pac n ck ... if that US-B isn't a
Musical edig product i'll , i'll i'll ---- well can't really
get any more disgusted with OEMs.
Note LiquidAudio's partner is Independently oriented also - e.digital does LQID... according to JC and our three year accumulation of partners we do them all..
But I don't see any O2D DRM spec on any players, hmmmm ok, most likely
a paid download. :) If liquid audio and DataPlay are on are site as partners were 'in-the-money'
About Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records is part of The Sanctuary Group, one of the world's leading developers of intellectual property rights (IPR's) in the fields of music, television and entertainment
and the owner of the world's largest independently owned catalogue of music and visual rights.
http://www.liquidaudio.com/company/press/2002/archive/08_20_02.asp
I found myself recommending e.Digital again
We have yet to hear about Asia - n China is getting Jujitsu Ten – nice find
Among all the other amazing accomplishment we're doing – I’m buying more.
Can't wait to hear, ''That most hyped stock that was supposed to be phenomenal actually turned out to be all that and more... Just goes to show - the world is full of visionaries.
And CK – the best link I see between Pronounced and G-books is – well Toyota.
emit...
Spelling or reading not straight today
OK then connect Pronounced and G-Book
never can spell
emit..
ck - If IBM has Toyota's dashnav why would it need eclipts - As a compliment of facilitator. I know we used IBM in Cquence, Lucent in MXP, and someone has said they heard a rep say eclipts vr emgine was another, not lu but - forgot
We naturaly assume Lu ... Wouldn't it be nice if it turn out to be IBM powered.
Anyway this is nice but kinda sidesteps us imho.
emit...
Kieth Murt is an ARKA series NASCAR driver from my town...
He has a very nice Sports Bar called 'Ernies Down Under'
It has one of these: http://www.touchtunes.com/
Very nice - digital MMC/MPEG1
I say, Stick a few jacks in it and allow a surcharge to patrons.
emit...
OK.. FM subcarrier frequencies to a variety of remote devices, including telematics systems, toys, consumer electronics, and other endpoints.
IBOC is in-band-on-channel. dmark interestin gern
FM subcarrier frequency datacasting - what
hmmmm
DD needed
probably not strong enought due to wavelength handheld constraints. can u say lossycompression lol
streaming may need no codeexecution - that be realtime
input input
emit...
berge ` the two bottom links would't open but califormula is right up our alley...
Isn't this Host related.
emit...
Samsung is ecclectic -
Source: Computerwire.com
Samsung Develops Microsoft-Powered Phone for Verizon Debut
Details have leaked out of a Samsung Electronics Co Ltd mobile handset that will use Microsoft Corp's long-awaited phone operating system.
The CDMA SCH-i600 incorporates Windows Powered Smartphone 2002 software in a clamshell form factor with color screen and an integrated Secure Digital card slot. The phone appears to have an uncanny resemblance to the Palm OS-based Bluechip prototype that Seoul, South Korea-based Samsung showed at June's CommunicAsia2002 event in Singapore.
Samsung has also seemingly aligned itself with Symbian, making it the only major hardware manufacturer developing devices around all three major mobile OSs.
The SCH-i600 is only the second device based on Microsoft's much-hyped mobile phone platform to be seen in its final release form. The long-time holder of this distinction has been Birmingham, UK-based Sendo Holdings Ltd's Z100, although this device has not yet made its commercial debut.
Details of the phone appeared last week on the US Federal Communications Commission web site, after receiving technical approval. Photographs on the web site show the device sporting the logo of Verizon Wireless.
Specifications indicate the SCH-i600 is a tri-band, dual-mode unit with 800MHz and 1900MHz CDMA and AMPS capability. There is no indication yet as to whether the handset will be able to utilize Verizon's CDMA2000 1xRTT network.
Functionality in the SCH-i600's implementation of Smartphone 2002 is generally similar to that of its bigger brother, Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition. However, support for Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel appears to be absent from the device's specification. No details are available regarding release date and pricing.
LOL - Oh boy...
Source: vnunet.com
Hunting dogs given mobile phones
Finns come up with barking mad idea
Stalking elk in Finland is to be made easier by giving hunting dogs mobile phones.
According to Reuters, the hunters will use the phones to call their dog and will be able to tell what sort of animal it has tracked by the dog's barking. The hunters will also be able to give orders over the phone.
The 'pawsets' are equipped with GSM and GPS technology and were developed by the Benefon mobile phone company and Pointer, a company that makes dog tracking devices.
The canine cell phones are expected to come into use in September when traditionally large groups of hunters set out after some 85,000 elk.
Source: IT Director
[We better get on the ball - note bold]
Microsoft's phone gets closer
As the idea looms of a phone from Apple
Samsung's mobile based on Microsoft's Windows Powered Smartphone 2002 platform has just received clearance from the US Federal Communications Commission.
The SCH-1600 has limited PDA functionality and has been designed as a clamshell device with dual-band CDMA. Features include LCD panels, one inside the phone and one outside, so that caller ID can be seen even when the phone is closed.
An infrared port and Secure Digital memory card slot, which supports Secure Digital IO standard extension peripherals (such as digital cameras and Bluetooth devices) is also included. The phone supports email and SMS.
The Smartphone 2002 operating system, previously known as Stinger, complements Pocket PC 2002. Smartphone 2002 is designed for devices that are a phone first and a PDA second. Pocket PC 2002 is for devices that are PDAs first and phone second.
Smartphone provides access to all the usual Microsoft features, such as MSN Messenger, Internet Explorer, Media Player, Active Sync and email functionality.
Microsoft's Smartphone partners currently include Samsung, High Tech Computer from Taiwan, Compal Electronics, and Sendo Holdings. Among the partners, Samsung is the most active, with plans to produce handsets based on operating systems from Microsoft's competitors Palm and Symbian.
The news comes at a time when there is growing suspicion that Apple is considering the development of a mobile phone. For some time the question on many people's lips has been what will be the next big thing from Steve Jobs. The answer may be the 'iPhone'.
Palm has recently been in negotiations with Apple over linking its handheld devices more closely to Apple's new OS X, with little cooperation from Apple.
And then there is the deal with Pixo, a small company that designed the software for Apple's iPod MP3 player. The deal includes a licence for Apple to use Pixo's software on a second, as yet unnamed, product.
Added to this there was a certain "mobile" feel to some of the product announcements at the recent Apple World Wide Developer Conference as the company put itself at the centre of the "digital hub" it sees as the future.
Although Apple remains coy about any plans to move into the mobile world, through phone or PDA, just the thought of Apple's industrial design applied to these devices is enough to get the juices of the most earnest non-techie going.
So as Microsoft moves forward it remains to be seen whether Apple will give them something to worry about.
OT - Somehow...
Source: Computerwire.com
Fujitsu Software Consolidates Eclipse's Linux Presence
The IBM-backed Eclipse open source project consolidated its presence on the Linux platform yesterday.
Fujitsu Software Corp announced availability of its NetCOBOL product for Linux, based on the open source application development tools framework.
NetCOBOL for Linux is available at an introductory price of $999 from the netcobol.com web site until August 31. Thereafter NetCOBOL for Linux will be priced $1,800 in the US.
IBM initially backed Eclipse in November 2001 as a workbench and framework to build Java-based tools, with IBM announcing support for Eclipse in WebSphere Studio.
In January 2002 Linux made it onto the Eclipse roadmap, though. IBM and Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat Corp donated a common interface, source code editor and debugger to further the project.
IBM and Red Hat's move came as Scotts Valley, California-based Borland Software Corp announced its own, separate Linux plans with rapid application development (RAD) in C/C++ for Linux.
Fujitsu Software joined the Eclipse board in May, and has since proved an enthusiastic participant in driving the project's Linux agenda. The company said Eclipse would deliver leading edge features and allow other vendors to add complementary functionality.
San Jose, California-based Fujitsu Software said customer requests "mandated" NetCOBOL for Linux. "Linux has been long-praised for its stability - a feature that is also associated with NetCOBOL," the company's director of languages Ron Langer said in a statement.
The NetCOBOL offering builds on IBM and Red Hat's initial work, having been tested on the Intel x86 distribution of Red Hat Linux. Features includes an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) and integrated debugger with standard NetCOBOL features including object oriented COBOL extensions, embedded SQL, data file maintenance tools and NEtCOBOL APIs for creating CGI internet applications.
Source: Computerwire.com
T-Mobile, HP and Starbucks Plan Global Hotspot Future
T-Mobile, the Deutsche Telekom AG wireless unit which picked up the former Mobilestar Networks Inc's US wireless hotspot network when it bought VoiceStream Wireless last year, yesterday dusted off its windfall investment, and announced plans to go global with its partners Starbucks Coffee Co and Hewlett-Packard Co.
Shortly before T-Mobile paid $50.7bn to acquire VoiceStream last June, the US GSM network operator had itself paid an undisclosed sum for MobileStar, one of the pioneers of the US hotspot scene whose disappointed ambitions had driven it into receivership.
The jewel in MobileStar's hotspot crown at the time was the network of access points it controlled in 600 Starbuck's cafes across the US. Since then, T-Mobile has done little with its hotspot estate other than withdraw it from a bilateral aggregation agreement with HereUare Communications Inc, another US hotspot pioneer that has put itself up for sale ahead of imminent bankruptcy.
Yesterday though, T-Mobile demonstrated that if it had any lingering doubts about the viability of the hotspot business, at least in the US, they have been overcome. In a joint announcement with Starbucks and HP, which is working with the two companies to provide equipment and develop applications to support their hotspot program, the companies revealed that having already expanded the original network to 1,200 Starbucks cafes across the US, and plan to grow this to 2,000 by the end of the year. Once this target is reached, the companies say they will be well on the way to meeting there target of having the first truly national US wireless hotspot footprint.
The companies yesterday also announced the first hotspots in Starbucks outlets overseas. Located in the UK and Germany, the new overseas outposts are firmly within T-Mobile's corporate footprint, and like the US outlets will benefit from the in-house backhaul capability that comes from having a national wireless operator as a parent.
In time, T-Mobile said plans are in place to spread hotspots to other Starbucks outlets across Europe, and for the German wireless operator to find new location partners to supplement its relationship with Starbucks. However, it is likely to be some time before the company's overseas footprint comes close to matching the scope of its US presence.
"[In Europe] people are generally much less wireless LAN aware. They are less likely to already use WLAN technology in the office, and much less likely to be using it at home," said Neil Dagger, HP UK's iPaq and connected devices business manager.
However, said Dagger, HP and its partners are committed promoting interest in WLAN technology in the UK and Germany and will continue to offer free access to their new overseas hotspots for the immediate future. This, and other promotional measures planned for the rest of the year will be reinforced before Christmas by which time, Dagger said, HP will beginning to ship its first WiFi-enabled iPaq to corporate customers in Europe.
Danl ` We're with Actel this is Atmel... Believe the term microOS is refering to the OS in a macro invironment - not ours imho.
Tin note the inclusion of AAC/AC3 in that abstract also the emphisis on optomization 'and DSP solutions' also that the system is being shipped around the world and the acknowlegment of a real-tin paradigm shift.
The abstract uses LQIDs security pseudo implied at the Controler Subsystem. And -
'Conclusion'
Hopefully this discussion of an MP3 player system that is based on DSP/BIOS and actually being used in shipping production systems makes the DSP/BIOS and eXpressDSPE concepts
more clear. This software system is in production today. The combination of data and control on a single DSP should be made easier with the possibility of adding more granularity to threads and their priorities. RTA makes debug a breeze.
Thus, the advantage of DSP/BIOS in your system and ease of adapting is high.
IMO the ability to reprogram is inherant because the eXpress DSP partners are tweaking em - question is, is a parity set to inhibit future script/os firmware loading once in consumers hands.
emit...
I recall an archived edig FAQs stating that additional retialers could appear with no forwarning, but the 'DataPlay Classic'
deserves a PR.
Maybe DataPlay will tell the world
about 'Powered By e.Digital Technology'
Since it's finaly here.
emit...
Tin ~ That and soo much more script end to end.
Where you been... :)
emit...
Per Odyssey 800 - From CC ...
Odyssey 1000 - It's the flagship product of a line of products we'll be producing over the next year
if this is not a mix-up on specs.
emit...
This has been addressed - having to do with NDAs/specific knowledge and insider info per open market buys.
Board monitors please delete these ...
coytes 7 post have all been negative.
emit...
Hope it goes through - A Liquid Alliance would almost gaurantee a RedDotNet kiosks system.
emit...
'Ucansee' that these type of public LANs is what the Entertainment industry needs - MTV beat by StarBucks...
Once WeDigMusic gets plugged into this mode of handheld lookout.
Wonder if WiFi n iBuiquity could cooinside ....
Not OT - This is significant - egroups,
StarBucks partner - Naa :)
emit...
NBC nightly news.. American's love their luguries... Ford Excursion going.
But did you see the kid - watching tv, in the Rav4. that's dvd
Blutooth handheld facilitaed nav - US American's el have to have.
Treoeclipsed At CES - Wonder if it'l flounder like lucent,intel,ti,sanyo,eastech,maycome, etc,.
What if DataPlay is a broadband partner and is hoping to enter edig's plans in telematics - and become a Legend to Asia.
Instead of criticizing mgmt - give them neat stuff to think about. A in excellense/effort Team! 1 nitch is enough
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ck ` And MH ask me a while back, ''Whats the big deal about MTV360.''
Nice -
Management Team
World Theatre has assembled a management team that is lead by music and entertainment industry veteran Robert Summer. Mr. Summer, former President of Sony Music International and RCA Records, serves as World Theatre's Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO.
World Theatre's diverse management team has extensive experience in music, entertainment, technology and e-commerce.
Key team members include:
Chairman/CEO, Robert Summer - Former President, RCA Records , President, Sony Music International, and Chairman of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Board Member, David Homrich - Executive Vice President, Finance and Investments at AMB Group LLC.
Board Member, Joel Katz - Co-managing share holder and Chairman of The Entertainment Department at Greenberg Traurig , LLP, Atlanta.
Board Member, Ollin Sykes - President of Sykes & Company, P.A., specializing in accounting, tax and financial advisory services.
Board Member, Michael Wiener - Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Infinity Broadcasting Corporation.
President/COO/Board Member, Kelly Sparks - Former Sales and Marketing Executive, IBM, focused on creating and growing eBusiness and Internet commerce companies.
Chief Financial Officer, Rick Eaton - Former CFO of Juno Online Services, Inc., one of America's leading Internet access providers.
EVP New Business Development & World Wide Sales, Skip Ballou - Former Executive Sales Manager for IBM in Asia Pacific, Northeastern US Sales Leader, Sales Representative, and Facilities Engineering Manager.
EVP iTV Music Network, Rob Barnett - Former VP Programming at VH1, 12 years at MTV Networks in music, programming & production, and 10 years in radio programming.
EVP iTV Commerce, Randy Daniel - Former Senior Business Development Executive, IBM, managed sales and product offerings for Internet commerce across the Americas.
Okay - I could be wrong.
http://www.pressplay.com/compatible_devices.html
emit...
August 20, 2002 / News Archives
Asians Go Wi-Fi
By Seng Li Peng
"Wi-Fi is growing and there is no holding back," says Peter Murray, president of Gemtek Systems Inc. (GSi). According to the chairman of the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA), Dennis Eaton, worldwide demand for Wi-Fi certified products continues to grow, requiring WECA to expand its certification capacity by fourfold since the first round of Wi-Fi Certified products was announced in March of 2000.
In a report by The Miami Herald, it stated In-Stat/MDR has projected that by 2005, worldwide sales of Wi-Fi equipment will surpass the US$5 billion mark. In 2001, worldwide sales of Wi-Fi equipment jumped 120 percent to US$1.78 billion from US$811 million in 2000 and US$254 million in 1999.
Before skeptics question if Wi-Fi (or 802.11b), an industry standard to ensure that different wireless solutions can interoperate in a wireless local area network (WLAN), is just another 'Western Import', here are some answers that will make them think otherwise.
"It is interesting to note that the majority of Wi-Fi equipment are manufactured in Asia. Samsung, Sony, Sharp, Fujitsu, Toshiba, NEC and Kyocera are just the start of the list of Asian companies actively involved in Wi-Fi and who have certified products in the marketplace," Murray explains.
Other notable names from Asia include Acer, Seiko Epson Corporation, Sumitomo Electric Industries and Yamaha Corporation.
According to Eaton, less than 30 percent of the 150-over WECA member companies (offering more than 370 Wi-Fi products) were from Asia a year ago. Today, Asia and North America each have an equal part of the WECA membership.
"At the current growth rate, we anticipate that the number of Asian-based WECA members will exceed the number of North American-based WECA members," he says.
The increased demand for Wi-Fi certification in Asia has also enabled WECA to begin certifying Wi-Fi products in Singapore and Taiwan. Two testing facilities for Wi-Fi products were also established in Tokyo, Japan and Singapore.
In countries such as Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore, 'hotspots' are already available in airports, offices and conference centers. Mobile operators are also looking at the deployment of 'hotspots' using Wi-Fi for their own customers, says Murray.
In Singapore, telco provider StarHub has recently installed a 'hotzone' based on 802.11b standard in Suntec City, home to a shopping mall and exhibition center. This 'hotzone' is said to cover an area of 180,000 square meters or about the size of 28 international soccer fields.
While Singapore's largest telco, Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), has not yet formally launched Wi-Fi as a public service, it may do so soon, said a Dow Jones news report.
Be Wise, Go Wi-Fi
As Wi-Fi products continue to proliferate, it only makes pure business sense for companies to implement WLAN based on this prominent standard.
"There are, and will continue to be, WLAN devices in the market place that are not Wi-Fi certified," says Bonnie Cheong, vice president of Communications, GSI. These may work fine with Wi-Fi products initially. But problems will arise when new features are added to Wi-Fi products. Manufacturers of non Wi-Fi products will then find interoperability with Wi-Fi products a problem because of backward compatibility issues and so forth.
"Manufacturers of non Wi-Fi products can come up with similar features found in the Wi-Fi products. But they may not be able to produce such features as economically as others who are already producing Wi-Fi certified products," Cheong adds.
Wi-Fi technology is also a better alternative to other wireless technologies such as Bluetooth, Infrared and Utlrawideband (UWB), although they may well complement, rather than compete, with each other in some instances.
"When one looks at the attributes of the different technologies such as Bluetooth, infrared or UWB technology, it becomes clearer as to why, for WLAN, Wi-Fi is the choice apart from the fact that it was designed from day one to be a wireless Ethernet connection to data networks," says Murray.
"Bluetooth was designed as a pico-net system without any one device in control until that device needs to communicate to another device. The maximum number of other Bluetooth devices in a pico-net is only 15. The original design is very low powered with a maximum range of 30 feet."
Bluetooth also has a slower data transmission speed of just over 1 Mega bits per second (Mbps) as opposed to 11 Mbps offered by Wi-Fi. With Wi-Fi, users can enjoy an Internet connectivity at about 200 times faster than a dial-up modem.
"There are later editions to Bluetooth that call for higher power and higher throughput but they are still pico-net systems without a central control point. Parties interested and pursuing these later editions for higher power are not very visible. Those working on higher throughput speed for camera, video and the like are making much more progress but not into the WLAN space."
While infrared would be a great medium for WLAN, they still lack the ability to penetrate through walls and floors.
UWB, although not new, is rather limited for use within the military. It is still too early to predict the future of UWB. But why wait-and-see where UWB is heading when Wi-Fi is available, says Murray.
Security Issues Being Addressed
Wi-Fi is not without flaws. Security is often the concern because of the weaknesses of its Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol. But works are currently underway to patch this problem.
There are four specifications under the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) body. These are 802.11, 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g. According to Murray, IEEE is now working on new security measures that would be incorporated into the new 802.11i standard.
"There is also work going on separately within the Wi-Fi circles for an interim solution. It may be that certain companies will activate this interim solution until the "11i" standard is released."
"There is no doubt that the Wireless community takes this issue extremely seriously and will put a sound solution in place as soon as possible," Murray assures.
GSI will be present at this year's 802.11 Planet Conference and Expo, to be held at The Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore on October 2 and 3. The company will discuss major issues surrounding public Internet access.
For more details on the event, go to www.intmediaevents.com/80211/singapore02/index.html.
From Evolutions Company Info link -
Napster allowed millions of fans to access free music from one another. In the summer of 2001, after several court battles over copy write infringement with the RIAA, Napster was forced to shut-down its file sharing network, but has promised to re-launch later this year with a subscription service.
emit...
greatturtle - Question is, 'Will the DSP structure in these flash players support any needed 'firmware upgrade' via download when time comes for such services as WeDigMusic, PressPlay etc.,
Evolution is only 2 years old and has e.Digital as a partner - One would think that if you were going to introduce a line of players thru a venue the likes of MTV that you'd cover these bases.
Them being mac n pc compatable shows adept preplanning -
Just MHO -
emit...
Just saw Evolution's MTV Commercial
Per the MTV Flash players
Pretty cool
emit...
Operator 3G Launch Plans – It’s The Services, Stupid!
8/14/2002 Author: Andrew Darling, Editorial Director,
Despite the cynicism surrounding mobile data so far, 3G services are still inspiring confidence among operators. Andrew Darling looks at the strategies of the five 3G license holders in the UK and asks if they really have a handle on what the public wants
In the face of enormous market scepticism, mobile network operators are trying to remain optimistic about the prospects for third generation (3G) network services. These services, we have frequently been told, will revolutionise the way we work and live by creating a supposedly seamless air interface network over which we can send and receive messages, pictures, information, entertainment and other advanced wireless data services from devices which encompass both voice and data capability. The only problem is that many observers doubt that users will respond to these promises, especially given the debacle of WAP, which materially failed to deliver what the operators touted in their glossy ads, and proved that consumers do not necessarily buy into new technology just for because it is there.
However, contrary to some recent reports, the results of a new survey conducted by the3Gportal.com on behalf of Tarifica indicates that 3G does have the potential to be successful providing the launch is focused correctly. Steve Jones, author of “3G Launch Strategies, Early Adopters, Why and How to Make Them Yours”, says: “The essential factors needed to encourage the mass market to take up 3G services will not exist for some time in the distant future but targeting the early adopter sector at launch will build a strong foundation for the success of 3G.” Key services for this group include more peer-to-peer communication rather than music or gaming downloads.
According to Philip Carnelley, an analyst with Ovum, a chasm exists between early adopters of technology and what can be called “the early majority”. He cites this chasm as “the difference between a technology-led offering and a service-led offering”. From user-behaviour research collected from the Asia-Pacific region, Carnelley, posits that few people are using mobile data services to help them run their lives and this is because there is a lack of suitable and compelling applications available. He also states that the user relationship to the device is probably stronger than the relationship with the operator “which can be overstated”.
Until now, most of the marketing of what mobile networks have to offer has largely focused on the phones themselves. This trend will undoubtedly continue as consumers have become very fashion-conscious in choosing their preferred personal voice communications tool. However, before persuading consumers to part with around £500 for a 3G device and around £60 per month in contract charges, mobile operators must first succeed in persuading them that these tools will add real value to their lives and the secret to that lies in the marketing of those services and the role that operators’ choose to play in the mobile data value chain.
“The success or failure of 3G services will be determined by what role the mobile operators decide to play in the mobile market,” says Avi Azulai, managing director of iTouch PLC, a wireless application solutions provider (WASP) and content aggregator in the UK. “What is key to the success of 3G services is that the technology is working properly, the handsets are user-friendly, the content is compelling and the services can be billed for effectively.”
So how far are we from seeing the rollout of 3G services in the UK and what can we expect?
The five UK 3G licensees – Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, O2 and new entrant Hutchison 3G – have set vague dates for turning on the new high-speed networks. However, all remain tight-lipped about what kind of services we can expect and how they will be marketed, citing commercial sensitivity as the reason.
To be fair, the reason for vagueness in launch dates is mainly down to uncertainty over when the operators can expect delivery of handsets from manufacturers in Scandinavia and Japan. O2 does not expect to see dual-mode (GPRS/3G) handsets on a mass scale until mid 2003 and has consequently delayed its commercial 3G launch until then.
O2 has been banking on its Manx Telecom pilot programme on the Isle of Man to help refine the business model for 3G services and assess user demand for particular features. So far its has come up with details of how much 3G mobile data services will cost users during the pilot, which may reflect O2’s pricing strategy for its wider roll out. The pricing model is based on users paying a flat fee for a set amount of usage, and then coughing up extra if they exceed their quota.
Working on “average” usage, O2 thinks that residential users who want to access the Web, download music, play games and indulge in multimedia emails, can expect to be charge around £40 per month.
Mike Short, O2’s vice president of technology and chairman of the Mobile Data Association, believes that consumers do want to use wireless data services and so will be prepared to pay for them. “SMS statistics in May showed that 45 million text messages were sent each day. That’s an early indication of how mobile data is growing,” he says. “The underlying trend is interactivity of text with TV, newspapers and magazines, which is significant. One of the things we are getting most interest in is capturing the moment with MMS (picture messaging).”
Paul Minihan, director of O2’s UK products says the operator will launch its MMS service this autumn once the Java platform has been implemented. “Just in time for a big sales push towards Christmas.” Minihan claims O2 have heavily researched MMS to get the quality and price points right. Nokia is the supplier of the MMS platform to the O2 group and the service will offer access to multimedia libraries and online photo albums. A selection of camera-enabled handsets will be available in time for pre-Christmas sales, including the Sharp GX1 and the Nokia 7650 and 7510.
MMS and picture messaging forms the basis of T-Mobile’s launch of advanced mobile data applications over GPRS, however, don’t expect to see any real launch of 3G services until next year. “We will be launching 3G in the UK within the next 12 months,” says a spokeswoman.
Refusing to go into details, she did say that the marketing focus would be about what customers could get out of services, rather than what 3G technology had to offer. “We are not going to make the same mistakes that other people did with WAP.”
The operator, formerly known as One 2 One, launched its T-Sport Web portal for mobile data at the end of last year. Users can access information on their preferred sports and customise delivery settings so receive updates via SMS on their phones. The same strategy will follow for the launch of 3G next year and users will be able to access similar portal-based service platforms for MMS, News, Music and Entertainment packages.
T-Mobile is charging £20 per month for 350 picture messages on its MMS service, launched last month. The company has no figures available yet as to how successful the service has been but its still early days. Nevertheless, many in the industry view user-generated content as a key catalyst for mobile data take off. Download sections on the T-Channels currently allow users to take ring tones, games and other free-ware, however, the operator has plans to start charging next year and anticipates that once users have become accustomed to paying for events, 3G will then be introduced.
Marketing the content will be via the T-channels for white label content, however, T-Mobile is actively seeking partnerships with branded content owners such as the BBC and Disney. “These partners can bring their own marketing expertise to this area,” says the spokeswoman.
Principle analyst at Ovum, John Delaney, says that MMS offers mobile operators their first real hope for making money from the mass market with 2.5G and 3G networks. “They need MMS to take off in a big way and as quickly as possible. A key means of achieving this is to make it affordable. The cheaper it is to buy MMS-capable handsets, and to send MMS messages, the more rapidly service usage will take off.”
The early MMS handsets on the market are expensive. Ericsson's T68i retails at around euro500 (£300), including camera, and Nokia's 7650 is about euro700 (£450). On top of this, subscribers need to activate a GPRS subscription before they can even start using MMS.
"If operators want to get things moving quickly with MMS they have to consider subsidies. Vodafone in the UK, for example, intends to offer the Ericsson T68I, with the clip-on Communicam, to its MMS subscribers at around euro315 (£199) - this is about euro185 (£100) less than the unsubsidised price” says Delaney.
The new data applications that Vodafone will bring to the market this year are designed to work on both GPRS and 3G platforms. The company anticipates that access to its services from GPRS networks will further lift data as a percentage of revenues progressively throughout the year. With 3G’s greater capacity, efficient spectrum management and faster data rates, Vodafone aims to ensure and enhanced service experience for its customers.
“We are learning a lot off GPRS,” says John Littlestone, senior product manager next generation products at Vodafone. “In terms of the evolution of the network its probably more significant than 3G because it introduces packet-based networks. However, the value is in the products and services.”
Volume-based charging will involve a major re-education of Vodafone’s users and it has already started this by sending a welcome pack to its new GPRS service customers, which explains how the costs work out. The company has plans to move further into volume-based billing via its M-Pay initiative developed alongside partner Bango net and agreements with major credit card companies.
“The main thing is that we want customers to feel in control of what they are doing,” says Littlestone.
Vodafone’s 3G networks will be turned on by the end of this year, however, no mass-market adoption of 3G services is expected before 2004. Nevertheless, Littlestone says he is “very confident” of demand for 3G services. “On the Internet, people are starting to pay for content of real value to them and we think the mobile world will benefit from this shift in attitude.” Littlestone says it will be the major city centres in the UK that will see 3G arrive first and that Vodafone will be launching a series of media campaigns based around GPRS services over the next few months, most of which will focus on home workers.
Another operator refusing to be drawn into any detail about launch plans and marketing is Orange. Despite persistent rumours that Orange’s data strategy is in complete disarray, Richard Brennan, executive vice president OrangeWorld, says that the company will never launch 3G as a technology, only as an extension of existing services.
“As with any product, the uptake of services will depend on a number of key factors: relevance, timeliness, positioning – and, of course, how they are marketed. It is up to us to effectively communicate the benefits of these services in a straightforward way,” Brennan says. However, apart from some vague comments about “sharing our vision” with customers and showing them how “these applications will enrich their lives”, Orange’s plans seem to be, well, pretty vague.
New entrant Hutchison 3G (or Three as it will soon be known) will undoubtedly be the first operator to launch a 3G network in the UK. Originally plans were for a September launch this year but this has recently been put back to “by the end of the year,” according to corporate communications director, Ed Brewster. H3G has the advantage of developing new internal IT systems without the headache of integrating old billing software, however, it has no customers as yet.
“We are a new type of multimedia content and Communications Company,” says Brewster. “However, the race to 3G success is a marathon and not a sprint so don’t expect a big bang when we launch. The end of this year will see the start of our service offering based on individual customer preferences.”
H3G will offer news, entertainment, MMS, Premiership football (which is has secured the video streaming rights for, although don’t expect that immediately) and online games. Around 80 percent of the content partners have already been signed up and include such names as EMAP and the BBC.
Katrina Bond of Cambridge-based consulting group Analysis, believes the success of mobile data services is, however, quite uncertain. “Operators have so far been poor at segmenting the market and coming up with appropriate pricing. The branding of GPRS services been not been good and if there is low take up it could take the market in a very different direction than the operators envision. They must get off to a good start and the early years will be crucial in terms of the operators getting a return on their investment,” she says.
Perhaps H3G et al have got some really good marketing secrets up their sleeves. However, as Jim Clarke, co-founder of Netscape once said: “I can never understand why business journalists expect to know the truth. The stock price is way to important for that.”
Now why couldn't they have said that in the CC call -
We expect to have a full motion video reference design available later this year, with 500 meg to 1 gig capacity which will allow direct downloading to your handheld."
Carrots ck... our luck maybe next year.
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I like -
0dyssey 300 - in negotiations with private labels who would like to have a brand on it announcements probably coming in next few weeks...
Odyssey 1000 - It's the flagship product of a line of products we'll be producing over the next year - hmmm. Specificly designed to bring a miriad of broadband convergence for the consumer via our products. IMHO... Colleges will utilize ebooks n voicerecorder not to mention broadband content link.
The broadband site will include content providers, ISPs and, if I heard right, other hardware manufactures for advertising revs... including B2B opportunities.
'we are working with content providers to provide a network of services'
Independant artist first - followed by record laber primium content preloaded to devices in the future - emphisis on Convergence for the consumer.
Broadband site coming in Sep - and it's the first of its kind for and end-to-end solution... providing streaming muzac, bundled downloads and a miriad of other opportunities.
They are currently activly seeking additional financial backing to retire loans and further the broadband business venture. - in current negotiations -
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revenues starting-
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ok... We have DataPlays Classic, DP's first own player Powered by e.Digital, we're the OS to Evolution's MTV DP player now posponed till Fall... Content starting mid september. Classic hitting about then.
And DataPlay falling back on Toshiba. Now that kinda makes me wonder if Toshiba will have a player... hay wait; we built em one.
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culater ~ WoW. What neat things frequencies can do when the emit...
Good read
PressPlay n Liquid say it's time to do it,
Now e.Digital's gona put a brand to it.
Broadband
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culator, note Legend has been added to DataPlay partners page.
China will soon be the biggest PC market in the world, and everyone wants a piece of it.
A homegrown powerhouse called Legend. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/legend.html
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Correct - the s designated Satllite. iBiquity is going to be a very interesting venture.
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