Wireless high school

A high school in Vail, Arizona will become the state’s first all-wireless, all-laptop public school this fall. The 350 students at the school will not have traditional textbooks. Instead, they will use electronic and online articles as part of more traditional teacher lesson plans.

Posted on: July 11, 2005 9:00 am

Streaming videos on you mobile phone

News.com says with high-speed cellular networks soon to be widely available, wireless operators are exploring new ways to deliver not only over-the-air music downloads, but also music videos, streaming and other new products tied to music.

Posted on: July 11, 2005 9:00 am

Fujitsu Automation unveils latest robot

Fujitsu Automation unveiled the HOAP-3 robot. HOAP-3’s distance sensor, grip sensor, and acceleration sensor are controllable through a wired or wireless LAN. The robot has a camera, microphone, speaker, expression LED, audio recognition function, voice synthesis function, and image recognition function.

Posted on: July 7, 2005 9:00 am

Man steals Wi-Fi signal

Florida police have arrested a man for using someone else’s wireless Internet network. Police tell the St. Petersburg Times Benjamin Smith admitted using the Wi-Fi signal from the home of Richard Dinon, who had noticed Smith sitting in an SUV outside Dinon’s house using a laptop computer.

Posted on: July 7, 2005 9:00 am

Vodafone launches UMTS phone

Vodafone has launched the Sony Ericsson V600i on its UMTS network in Europe. The new handset is the third UMTS phone available from Vodafone. You can synchronize the V600i with Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes or SyncML through IrDa, USB and Bluetooth.

Posted on: July 6, 2005 9:00 am

Disney, Sprint team up on wireless service

Walt Disney Co. said it would use Sprint’s network to offer a mobile phone service geared toward families. ESPN sports network also plans to sell a mobile service aimed at sports fans, also renting space on Sprint’s network. The Disney Mobile service is expected to launch next year with features including voice calls and entertainment.

Posted on: July 6, 2005 9:00 am

Wireless headphones for iPod

Logitech introduced the Logitech Wireless Headphones for iPod. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the headphones use Bluetooth and allow you to listen to your iPod from 30 feet away.

Posted on: July 6, 2005 9:00 am

Microsoft faces antitrust suit

Jerrold Kaplan, inventor of an operating system that let computer users to write with a pen instead of a keyboard, says he has evidence that Microsoft set out to destroy his business and has filed an antitrust suit.

Posted on: July 6, 2005 9:00 am

Wireless technology helps small farmers

This story from South Africa details how farmers are utilizing wireless technology by testing cellphone technology that gives access to national markets though the internet, boosting profits by at least 30%.

Posted on: July 6, 2005 9:00 am

Watch TV from your smartphone

Abertis SA unit Abertis Telecom, Nokia Corp and Telefonica Moviles are starting a mobile TV pilot in Spain using Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) technology. Forbes reports that the pilot will allow 500 users from Madrid and Barcelona to watch broadcast TV content from Antena 3, Sogecable, Telecinco, Telemadrid, TVE and TV3 on Nokia 7710 smartphones equipped with a special accessory to receive mobile TV broadcasts.

Posted on: July 6, 2005 9:00 am