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My Favorite
Buzzword:
Get ready for the
Wireless MAN, baby. Or short for
Wireless Metropolitan Area Network.
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All About The MAN
Spam Overload Dept:
According
to a recent survey, about 65 percent of Net users spend 10 minutes
or more a day dealing with spam. About 37 percent of respondents get
100 junk messages a day, and 63 percent get 50 or more.
Source:
Symantec and Insightexpress
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Thursday, May 27, 2004
Using RFID to Find Lost Golf Balls
Have a Ball Dept: For those who hate looking for lost golf balls after a particularly bad slice (not us, of course!) there is RadarGolf, the first RFID solution designed to keep players hitting balls and not backing up the course hunting for them.
According to the Radar Golf website, "The system is comprised of an electronically 'tagged' golf ball and a handheld unit used to find the ball. When the golfer hits a shot that is difficult to locate, they pull out the handheld unit, turn it on, and point it in the direction of interest and begin walking toward their ball. By moving the unit from left to right, a pulsed audio tone (from the handheld unit) provides information on ball direction and distance. The golfer quickly walks in the direction of their ball and finds it within seconds, avoiding a delay in the game and the disruption to fellow golfers who come over to help look."
# Posted at
8:56 AM
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Egg-Shaped MP3 Player
We are not sure why wearing a big egg around your neck is high tech, or even appealing, but as far as innovation in the fairly dull MP3 player world, the EMP-Z II is definately the, er, bright egg in the bunch.
No word on if it will ever sell in the US.
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9:01 AM
Get Ready for Waterproof WiFi TVs
Not sure why a TV needs to be waterproof when you're thinking of cutting the cord and going wireless, but apparently Casio is hoping you'll sit poolside or right in the pool itself with its upcoming XFER XF-1000 WiFi TV. Bad note: only 640 x 480 resolution and 80211.b support.
Give me a g....
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12:50 AM
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Cisco Unveils Super Fast New Router
Determined to get the jump on Juniper, Ciso unleashed a new router, the CRS-1, that when tied together in a cluster can do 92Tbit/sec., or fast enought to transfer the entire US Library of Congress in 4.6 seconds. Sprint is planning to roll out live traffic on the platform in a few weeks.
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11:23 AM
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