May 24, 2005
Wireless Connectivity World (WiCon), May 24-25th in London, will showcase the potential of wireless networking applications from leading technologies such as WiFi, UWB, ZigBee, Bluetooth, NFC, DECT and WiMax.
At the conference, Freescale Semiconductor will demonstrate the industry's longest-range commercial Direct Sequence Ultra-Wideband (DS-UWB) solution in a wireless projector. Leveraging technology gains allowed by a recent Federal Communications Commission ruling, Freescale says their XS110 UWB chip can wirelessly transmit video across a 20-meter distance, double the range of previous UWB solutions.
"The FCC's waiver ruling in March paved the way for Freescale's XS110 chipset to double in range, while still performing at over 110 megabits per second -- a dramatic improvement for our OEM customers," said Martin Rofheart, director of Freescale's Ultra-Wideband Operation.
While the FCC waiver affects use only in the US, we believe the prudent testing and measurements behind this decision will be key for other regulatory concerns worldwide."
Longer range wireless applications include surround sound and home entertainment.
In March 2005, the FCC approved a waiver expanding the rules for UWB. Specifically, the waiver removes the requirement to reduce power for gated systems that burst intermittently. Freescale says their DS-UWB approach may be re-certified to achieve up to 30x greater data rate across a network, or deliver a video stream using up to 30x lower power from the battery, or deliver the same data rate across the network but at double the distance and with greater robustness.
With a simple firmware update, Freescale's current UWB chipset, the XS110, was modified to take advantage of the waiver, and has been submitted to the FCC for re-certification under the new
UltaWideBand is expected to replacing wired USB and IEEE 1394 connections, as well as the cables that connect speakers and other audio-visual components. UWB uses little power and can be hundreds of times faster than Bluetooth. In fact,
Bluetooth May be merging with UWB.
But members of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group did not give their blessing to either the Freescale-led DS-UWB standard or the Intel-led Multiband OFDM Alliance, says Extreme Tech.
Related DailyWireless articles include; UWB Organizations Merging?, Alereon Gets UWB Recognition, UWB RF-ID,
Wireless USB Comes Home
Microsoft Joins UWB Battle.
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We've been having a back channel conversation amongst the trackers at unmediated about how/whether to update the way in which we aggregate, present, and make useable the content on the site, in light of all the various aggregators, digg and its clones, and role model group blog sites that we all consume/use/hate/love. Since we all primarily support open media movements and the freedom of bits and so forth, and with all of us being busy with our primary projects, we are looking for ways to make getting content on the site easier and more streamlined, while making it obvious that we are presenting other sources content. With the availability of open API's for just about any type of media aggegration literally getting past the saturation point, and mashups taking every possible form, we are wondering, is it time to take a step back, or a step forward with how/what we do at umediated? In the course of my surfing today, i found this new site, Boxxet Which just might be the straw that breaks the camel's back in how we all perceive the current mix and match nature of the web as it now stands. What's different about Boxxet from other aggregators and mashups like the newest entry popurls, (which aggregates digg, slashdot, reddit, newsvine, tailrank, and flickr) is that Boxxet is a Website generator. Thats right, just pop in all the urls u want to aggregate (and WHAT from them) choose how u want to format it, plug in the url that u want it to be accessed at... and whammo: Your own site with everyone elses content, and all thats left to do is decide whether googleplex or yahooza is going to be the source of your linklove revenue. And if u have on older domain that u plug this into...well, we all know how the pageranking with search engines work by now. It used to be that u had to have a bit of code knowledge to make all this stuff work. Eyebeam's Re-blog engine which powers this site was not a simple undertaking at the time that Michael Frumin and Michael Migurski put it all together... a half a year before Marc Broadband-mechanicked the term Reblog as his latest buzzword before casting his attention on the ourmedia-meme. (kudo's, kudo's) But now, with the cut and paste mentality of webculture that we at unmediated have helped create, the pace at which people are remixing and repurposing code is accelerating at a rate similar to the curve that we saw with pro-sumer desktop video... almost anyone can do it. I have this sinking feeling in my gut that we will arrive sooner than later at the same existential threshold that the film studios and record labels are squirming under to our joyful cries of "die, dinosaurs, die!". What i am wondering, is how long until my hero of the open-information movement, Cory Doctorow, and the rest of our pals at BB will tolerate re-aggregation and repurposing of his content, (now that he is investing so much more time at the site) before he (or any of one us) screams, "FOUL!" Stewart Butterfield over at Flickr is dealing with this beast at the moment...and i have to admire the dryness with which he states, "I loaded the FlickrCentral pool and firefox got up to using 240mb of ram before dying. So that's not a great user experience, but it's really terrible for Flickr. If it catches on and you don't limit it, we'll have to cut you off :\" Sure, Stewart, blame it on the user experience and firefox. ;) I admire your candor, and personal attention/approach to what has become one of the hottest new BRANDS in Web 2.0 ...that u still have time to be personal and all flickr-fuzzy even after being acquired, but I am sure that your jeans feel like they're fitting a bit tighter all of a sudden. Pretty soon, I expect, a lot of us bell-bottomed infornistas are going to wake up in a similar pair of Jordaches. I'm curious which of us will cut the inseams and sew in another totally different material to keep our style,and which of us will claim that now that we're wearing skintight jeans ("they're really really comfortable...REALLY! You think i should get a pair of Reeboks to go with 'em?"), that the manufacture of bell-bottoms should be forbidden. I point this all out in good humour only to illustrate a point: The times, they are('nt) a changin'>, and Cory just might wake up one day soon in his magic kingdom, and say "Hey, man, where'd all my whuffie go? And he's going to have no choice but to join Walt's pinstripesuits in pushing for copyright extension. It's a pill i hope he (and we) never have to swallow. So i pose the question to our community readers: How do you see unmediated-Are we crossing the boundaries in how we repurpose content? Would you like to see more editorializing? Narrower/Broader scope? Are we a repository of information that you come back to use, or just part of your daily information addiction? Let us know... I, for one, would like to have an idea about what pair of jeans to wear this year ;) michael
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