Portland Cuts the Cord Tuesday
MetroFi, which is building a $15 million, 134 square mile “free” WiFi network in Portland, Oregon (pop: 560,000) is scheduled to launch their initial network next Tuesday, reports The Oregonian.
MetroFi plans to introduce its service at a “wire cutting”
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Nike + iPod = Stalking?
A report from four University of Washington researchers says Nike’s RFID-embedded shoe that links to an Apple iPod, using the $29 Nike + iPod Sport Kit, makes it easy for tech-savvy stalkers to track your movements, even plot your running routes on a Google map without your knowledge.
Wired explains the Nike+ iPod gives runners real-time updates about the speed and length of their workouts. A small transmitter in
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NextHop Raises Dough
Startup NextHop Technologies, which makes software for wired and wireless local area networks, announced it scored $4.8 million in its third round of venture financing. The company has raised a total of $41.8 million over the course of its three VC funding rounds.
NextHop says they’ve got the world’s first turnkey, enterprise-class software solutions for unified wired and wireless LAN switching. NextHop’s wireless
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XScale Devices: A Marvell
Marvell, which bought Intel’s XScale processor business earlier this year for $600 million, has launched its first family of application processors based on that technology. The PXA3xx series are aimed at handsets, GPS navigation systems, wireless handhelds and other consumer electronic devices. Connectivity to technologies like Wi-Fi, WiBro, WiMAX, and Bluetooth v2.0, are featured.
MuniFi USB Clients
TRENDnet today announced a high powered WiFi USB adapter, the TEW-445UB. The 108Mbps TEW-445UB 802.11b/g USB 2.0 adapter (right) has a detachable antenna and can operate at greater distances.
The adapter supports high output power up to 23dBM and uses Atheros eXtended Range (XR) Technology. Users can place computers in previously out of range locations.
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Google Invests in Meraki
GigOm reports that Google is investing in Meraki, the $50 wireless mesh client based on the MIT’s Roofnet project.
Meraki’s co-founder Sanjit Biswas tells us that the company completed a bridge round of funding last week, which included Google and “a few Silicon Valley angels.” Biswas wouldn’t specify the amount but said the round was under a million dollars. “We’d bootstrapped the company so far, so this cash is really
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Nokia 870 Tablet?
Engadget has spy photos of what may be the successor to Nokia’s $350 770 internet tablet. The upcoming Nokia 870 internet tablet is said to feature an integrated webcam, WiFi, an SD slot and 180MB of storage space. The screen is touch sensitive but the user can use the interface buttons for menus.
Like the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, it features the
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Digit news - Apple releases Mac OS X Security Update
Apple have released a major security update for Macs. As well as fixing bugs in aplications like ATS, CFNetwork, Finder, Font Book, Font Importer, Installer, OpenSSL, PHP, PPP, Samba, Security Framework, VPN, WebKit, gnuzip, and perl it also fixes a major bug with the airport (WiFi) driver that allows remote execution or arbitary code.
The update is available through the normal
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Digit news - Marvell chips speed mobile Web browsing:
Marvell acquired the Xscale series of processors from Intel and the new range PXA 300, PXA 310 and PXA 320 chips are the first fruits of the acquisition.
They are designed to be used in mobile devices where computing power is needed, but also good power consumption - they can adjust their processing speed as required.
The PXA 300 is designed for low cost applications, the 310 for numeric applications and the 320 for video.
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Digit news - Intel readies 45nm quad-core chips
Based on the same micro-architechture as the current Core 2 Due these chips use a new 45nm process (compared to the current 65nm process). This should allow faster, cooler chips and more chips can be put on the silicon per square inch.
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