The message is clear at this week’s Intel Developer Forum: The company wants to help you get more mobile. It’s putting its weight behind WiMax, a wireless-data standard that has been five years in coming and still hasn’t hit the consumer market.
Sep
18
With the market for quad-core chips still in its infancy, Advance Micro Devices has an alternative that might help bridge the gap: tri-core chips. As a bonus, this strategy can’t easily be imitated by Intel, AMD executives say.
Sep
14
Verizon Wireless challenges the the FCC’s proposed open-access rules for the upcoming auction of 700-MHz spectrum. Verizon’s petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit calls the FCC regs “arbitrary and capricious.”
Jul
30
Have you ever looked for a more powerful application than notepad or wordpad but did not want to shell out the big dollars for MS Word of Office. Tired of your email being in one place and not where ever you are? Consider Google Apps. It has been out for a while, but it is time to mention it again. What does it include?
GMail - Email with 2 GB of storage per account, mail search tools and integrated chat. The power of google search to find that lost email. Have access to all of your past emails where ever you have Internet access.
Google Talk - Free text and voice calling around the world. Googles chat and voip app.
Google Calendar - Coordinate meetings and other events with sharable calendars.
Docs & Spreadsheets - Create, share and collaborate on documents in real-time.
Page Creator - Easily create and publish web pages using Googles web page creation tool.
All of this and much more. You will not be disappointed with the quality of Google Apps.
Jul
26
Live in Washington, Baltimore or Chicago? If so, you will likely be one of the firsts to have access to a new highspeed wireless WiMax network offered by Sprint and Google. The rest of us, would have to wait until sometime in 2008.
WiMax is touted as the next great option to deliver high speed Internet Access to the mobile world.
Sprint has a vision for the next generation of on-the-go Web surfing, and it has nothing to do with cellphones or WiFi-powered coffee shops.
The Reston wireless provider, which now refers to itself as a mobile-broadband pioneer, is placing bets on a souped-upwireless technology called WiMax and has enlisted the help of Google as a first partner to spark excitement around the forthcoming launch.