Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

According to West Technology Research Solutions (WTRS), ultrawideband (UWB) will eventually beat out both the current Wi-Fi wireless networking standard and Bluetooth, while the open standard ZigBee protocol will enable every system in the house to talk to each other.

All I know for sure is that this issue will not go away. We need to get out in front of it, not wait for it to boil over.

"We have to keep an eye on growth so we are not outdated in five years. We are preparing ourselves for the next 20 years through stable and modern equipment. The residents will get the most bang for their buck with this program," said Hoffman.

AirCell wins patent for cellphone technology Louisville company targets in-flight calls Like it or not, airline passengers soon could be yakking on their cellphones during flights. And a Louisville company could help make that happen….

WinstonNet — which is based on a fiber optic ring that surrounds the city center and links to Internet 2, the newest, highest-capacity piece of the Internet — goes beyond providing free access to computers for those who do not own them.

Wi-Fi networks, fairly common in North America’s urban centers, have extended their habitat far into Canada’s frozen north. By Charles Mandel Wired.com There, local tourism operator Tundra Buggy Tours is setting up a four-kilometer-radius wireless…

"I think cable companies are going to take up to 20% market share" from the regional Bells, says analyst Norm Bogen of In-Stat/MDR.

VoIP is already making inroads among businesses. Nearly 10% of companies that use private networks to link their far-flung locations have moved their intra-office voice calls off the public network and onto VoIP connections, Forrester Research says. They are seeing as much as a 50% decrease in local and long-distance charges.

For a long time, sharing a broadband connection was something users had to do surreptitiously — most providers didn’t want customers to hog bandwidth by letting others on the pipe. Broadband ISPs would build such…

Begun in New York City, the gatherings are popping up in San Francisco, Minneapolis and suburban New York City, just north of the city. There also is talk of launching a similar group in London….

A new partnership formed by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) http://www.arc.gov/ in Washington, D.C. with the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and Carnegie Mellon University will soon be bringing wireless broadband applications to rural Appalachian communities….