The Ruckus folks were very prompt in responding to my questions following up on the announcement of the MediaFlex Hotspot. Thanks to David Callisch, Ruckus Wireless Marketing Director for the quick turnaround. Q&A after the jump.
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Ruckus Wireless is one of the companies Motorola has invested in via Motorola Ventures. Barely 3 years old, Ruckus has made impressive waves in the Wi-Fi space, and yesterday the company announced the brand new Ruckus MediaFlex Hotspot (HS).
The device is designed to support multimedia applications over Wi-Fi and claims increased range and capacity [...]
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I don’t manage to read Fast Company often enough, but someone just brought an article to my attention on Slim Devices from the last issue. Slim Devices is the company bought by Logitech last fall that produces the beautiful Squeezebox. I’m a big fan of the product, but that’s not what makes the [...]
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The title of this post is probably a little strong, but it will be interesting to see what happens in the wake of the petition by Skype to have the FCC force wireless operators to loosen up. Specifically, Skype doesn’t want operators to be able to control what hardware and software can connect to [...]
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There are too many areas of Motorola to stay up to date on everything all the time. So I was thrilled this week to read a company press release on a new MOTODEV Game Developer Challenge. Anyone involved with the MOTODEV network can enter a game submission to run on either Java (for the [...]
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Peter Grant has an article in today’s Wall Street Journal offering a short primer on OCAP. It’s very readable, so if you’re looking for an overview on the subject, check it out.
More importantly though, the WSJ story brought up a debate on OCAP with other industry friends. Some folks wonder whether [...]
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The Wall Street Journal had a Valentine’s Day article last week on the latest boom in network spending. A little “We Heart You” to the network equipment providers of the world. What was interesting was the distinction the reporter made between what networking gear is selling today versus what brought in the moola [...]
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Photo courtesy of yablo’s Flickr photostream.
Network providers quite naturally have considerable control over an end-user’s experience. Whether it’s the number of dropped calls from your wireless carrier, or the available speed from your broadband provider, the network you subscribe to can significantly impact the things you’re able to do.
Taking that premise as a given, [...]
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Earlier this week Time Warner announced it was ending a trial that allowed subscribers to watch cable television on their PCs. Aside the from the question of why you’d want to watch TV on your PC rather than your… um… TV, the test brought up an interesting technical dilemma. Time Warner converted its [...]
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There continues to be much confusion around CableCARDs and the ability to support two-way communication between a set-top and a cable headend. Maybe I’ve missed it, but it seems no one has put together the fact that the latest CableCARDs have to be two-way given the fast-approaching 7/07 deadline.
Put simply, there is [...]
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