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The Cell Phone: Best Wireless Product Ever Or Menace? 

Have you become dependent on your cell phone? Do you feel naked without it? Has your cell phone become a source of entertainment as well as just a way ... to make a phone call? Most of you would say yes to all those questions. Which is why the cell phone business has grown so big and continues to get bigger. Any industry that sells its basic product, the handset, in quantities of over one billion a year and has an infrastructure worth billions is something to be reckoned with. And there is lots of evidence of continued growth with unexpected capabilities and features on the way. I got a glimpse of all this at the recent CTIA conference in San Francisco. Let me summarize briefly what I saw and heard—it should give you an idea of how pervasive this industry has become. The Big Show The CTIA is the wireless industry's trade association. All the major carriers and manufacturers are members as are many smaller support companies. Their president and CEO Steve Largent, is an ex-Seattle Seahawks w   [More...] [Less...]

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Public-Private Partnership Options for Managing Wireless Networks 

Summary: For the last decade, the primary method by which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has assigned access to radio spectrum is through ... the auctioning of licenses for specific frequencies in designated geographical areas. Subsequently, with the recognition by capital markets that a spectrum license is a valuable asset, and with the relaxation of rules regarding ownership, sale, and trading of licenses, radio spectrum licenses have been increasingly treated like other financial holdings. The ongoing policy debate on the legal and economic implications of various forms of spectrum rights ownership has expanded since auctions began in the mid-1990s. Other major policy debates include the structuring of the auction process and of the auction rules that decide eligibility for bidding. A number of these debates have been addressed in the form of hearings held by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Recen   [More...] [Less...]

Wireless Design 

Server Error in '/' Application. Input string was not in a correct format. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current ... web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format. Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. [FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.] Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.DoubleType.Parse(String Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat) +195 Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.BooleanType.FromString(String Value) +217 [InvalidCastException: Cast from string "" to type 'Boolean' is not valid.] Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.BooleanType.FromString(String Value) +336 WDNew.   [More...] [Less...]

USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future 

The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School is pleased to present the results of the seventh year of our project, "Surveying the Digital ... Future." The seven years of longitudinal research comprise an absolutely unique data base that completely captures broadband at home, the wireless Internet, on-line media, user-generated content and, now, social networking. This year's report contains a large module looking at on-line communities and social networking in great detail. Readers can compare the social networking data and correlate it to seven years of attitudes and behaviors on-line. As usual, the report continues to track off-line media use, purchasing both off-line and through e-commerce, social and political activity and a wealth of other data. The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School has been tracking a representative sample of the American population for over seven years, watching as people move on line and then move from modems to broadband. T   [More...] [Less...]

RF Design Magazine | Wireless Communication and Radio Frequency Circuit Design for RF Engineers 

, By Steve Rousselle, Michael Miller and Arien Sligar The sophistication of circuit and 3-D EM simulation tools has reached a point where complex system-level ... behavior may be simulated prior to fabrication. When EM simulation is combined with circuit simulation, the result is a powerful platform for the design and testing of complex antenna systems. Several enabling simulation techniques allow complex designs, while replicating real-world system-level behavior in these applications.... Nov 26, 2007 4:11 PM, By Mark E. Hazen, EWT Editor The recent news that Sprint Nextel and Clearwire cancelled their plans to collaborate for the deployment of a U.S. nationwide WiMAX network left many analysts digging for reasons some stating that the risks are high and business models are not yet proven. But alas, behind the announcement we see that Clearwire is pressing forward and Sprint Nextel may only be delaying their efforts.... Microsemi Corporation has unveiled a state-of-the-art high duty cycle   [More...] [Less...]

Verizon Tests New Cellular Technology | AlwaysOn 

WSJ -- Verizon Wireless said Thursday that it is testing out a fourth-generation technology known as LTE, or long-term evolution, that would help the company ... move closer to technology standards favored by many other cellular carriers around the world. The decision to use the technology is important because it signals Verizon Wireless's willingness to operate a more commonly used network. Its current standard, called CDMA, isn't compatible with much of the world's carriers, which base their networks on a standard called GSM. But LTE is an upgrade over the technology that many carriers, particularly in Europe, are employing as a third-generation technology. Verizon Wireless, in effect, is hopping from its own upgrade path to one likely shared by others. Read more   [More...] [Less...]

IEF 2008: Fast growing standards mean no big cheese - Nokia 

Standards are proliferating so fast in the wireless industry that no one company will be able in future to dominate a generation, according to Petri Liuha, ... laboratory director computation structures at Nokia , speaking to the in Dubai this morning. Asked by EW if he thought Qualcomm would dominate the 4G generation is the same way as it dominated the 3G generation, Liuha joked: “Good question; next question please”. He continued: “No we don’t expect that. We don’t want that to happen. The development of these generations on the mobile phone is like computers in the early days, at some time you don’t talk about generations.” Liuha added: “Many technologies will be used, and it will be very difficult for anyone to dominate.” Nokia has been involved in an epic series of lawsuits with Qualcomm which have mostly been consolidated into a single action to be decided by a Delaware court in July, if agreement is not reached before then.   [More...] [Less...]

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Architecture Now Available Top-To-Bottom 

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Software downloads for tomorrow's cars - The IET 

Developed over two and a half years by a consortium of research institutes, software companies, vehicle manufacturers and parts suppliers, the architecture ... represents a building block for an intelligent car able to reconfigure and update itself autonomously, as well as communicate with other devices, such as the driver’s mobile phone or PDA. “The architecture is the basis for a kind of adaptable onboard operating system… but one that’s much more robust than what is on your PC,” claimed Martin Sanfridson, a researcher at Volvo Technology in Sweden and the co-ordinator of the EU-funded DySCAS project in which the architecture was developed. The DySCAS architecture allows systems, such as onboard navigation, to automatically access addresses on the driver’s PDA to save them from having to be input manually. It would also make installing new features and components or changing existing ones considerably easier. “Cars take many years to develop and most are designed to be on the road for pe   [More...] [Less...]