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Intel splits Wi-Fi signal to create two adapters: Intel has demonstrated a future technology dubbed Cliffside that enables a single Wi-Fi adapter to work as two adapters, one of which becomes a Personal Area Network PAN. The demo took place in Shanghai before the recent Intel Developer Forum, but you can see Intel marketing product manager Gary Martz...; Tags: Personal Area Network, Adapter, Intel Corp., Cliffside, Bluetooth, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Rik Fairlie; Blog posts 2008-04-07
Egenera: New pals for PAN Manager: I've spoken about Egenera several times in the past and pointed out that it was one of the very earliest players offering blade computers and the related management software. Egenera called this software PAN Processing Area Network manager. PAN manager, at first, was a tool that allowed organizations to orchestrate...; Tags: Blade, Personal Area Network, Egenera Inc., PAN Manager, Bluetooth, Blade Servers, Servers, Wireless, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-03-25
A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Mobile Collaboration: The paper describes a framework used to develop mobile collaborative applications in Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME). The framework focuses on the support for same place-same-time collaboration on mobile phones utilising Personal Area Networks PANs. The authors believe that the PAN technology available on mobile phones enables for a broad...; Tags: Phone, Collaboration, Mobile, Personal Area Network, P2P, Cell Phone, Bluetooth, Advertising & Promotion, Peer To Peer (P2P), Java, Wireless, Marketing, Internet, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers 2006-09-17
Hey, where's my truth tester, voter dude?: Did you know that George Bush stole last week's Mexican election? and used the FBI to do it? You didn't? Well, clearly you don't read England's Guardian newspaper. Here's what a bit of what columnist Greg Palast (an American, incidentally), had to say As in Florida in 2000, and...; Tags: Google Inc., Felipe Calderón, voter; Blog posts 2006-07-13
MC-CDMA in personal area networks - A Combined PHY and MAC Approach: Future personal networks PN will be complemented by personal area networks PANs, which are considered as a building block for 4G communication systems. PANs establish an ad-hoc network of personal devices around a person with the possibility to associate other devices in reach as well. A connection to infrastructure networks...; Tags: MAC, Personal Area Network, MC-CDMA, Bluetooth, Wireless; White papers 2005-03-09

Using the Java APIs for Bluetooth, Part 2 - Putting the Core APIs to Work: Bluetooth is a low-cost, short-range wireless technology that has become popular among those who want to create Personal Area Networks PANs. Each PAN is a dynamically created network built around an individual, that enables devices such as cellular phones and Personal Digital Assistants PDAs to connect automatically and share data...; Tags: Personal Area Network, API, Bluetooth, Programming Languages, Wi-Fi, Java, Wireless, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers 2005-02-01

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Images: Mars is getting a new visitor: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is expected to search for life after it touches down near an icy region of the Red Planet on May 25.On the morning of May 25, Mars will receive a new alien contraption from Earth, the Phoenix Mars Lander. Its three month mission is to sample...; Tags: Surface, Earth, NASA, Phoenix Technologies, It', CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-15
A robotic chef for your kitchen?: The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...; Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-15
What open source teaches publishers: I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...; Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Gallery: Installing draft-n WiFi in Psystar: Installing a D-Link DWA-556 802.11n WiFi card in a Psystar Open Computer and turning on Airport in the Leopard Network System Preference. by Jason O'Grady; Tags: Draft-N, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Home Networking, Wireless, Networking, Personal Technology, Jason O\'Grady, Psystar, Open, Computer, Clone, WiFi, D-Link, DWA-566, Install; Image galleries 2008-05-15
Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says: And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...; Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
The newspaper's last stand: Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...; Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-05-15
DIY phishing kits introducing new features: What are some of the main factors for the increase of phishing attacks, and their maturity from passive emails to blended threats attempting to not just steal personal information, but also infect with malware by embedding client-side vulnerabilities at the pages? It's all a matter of perspective, which in this...; Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released: Nitesh Dhanjani released information about some of his newest research on the Safari web browser this morning, and interestingly enough, Apple has decided NOT to fix some of the issues he presented. Dhanjani reported three issues, as follows below from his blog: 1. Safari Carpet Bomb.It...; Tags: HTML, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Issue, Safari Carpet Bomb.It, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-15
A stick and personal care for those who can afford it: Lorne Stitsky has a dream. It's the comfortable life internists enjoyed generations ago. A small number of patients, whom he can know intimately and who will depend on him as families did way back when. You can almost hear Randy Newman's Dayton Ohio 1903 playing in the...; Tags: Patient, Dr., Lorne Stitsky, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Off Topic: Integrating mobile devices can be a challenge: I've been working through a project for a KG client that involves running through the same script on Windows XP, Mac OS X (10.5) and Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. I mentioned the overall parameters of that effort in the post Off Topic: Desktop evaluation - Linux, Mac OS and...; Tags: Microsoft ActiveSync, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Mobile Device, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Linux, Desktops, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?: As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...; Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test): Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...; Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Virtualization and security: It's easy to spot market trends when many vendors call to schedule meetings and all of them want to speak about the same topic. The topic du mois is security in virtualized environments. Some of the suppliers are taking a very broad view of both security and virtualized environments. Others...; Tags: Network, Environment, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Virtualization, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices: I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...; Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15