General
UTM to LatLon conversion application for Android
This application performs a fast conversion between the two most used coordinates formats UTM (Northing, Easting, Zone) and Geodetic (Lat, Lon). Reference Datum is WGS84 (the one used in GPS system). WARNING: Results are provided with no warranty!
UTM to Lat Lon Conversion was developed for Android by Luca Dell’Anna
Package name : com.dellanna.geocode
System permissions : This application [...]
3G4G Stats
I have been asked very often about the stats of 3G4G website and 3G4G blog. So here are some details:
- At the peak (Oct.), the combined page views for both of them reached around 100,000
- In the quietest month (Dec.), the combined page views were around 75,000
- The 3G4G blog has page views from 22,000 (Dec) to 35,000 (Oct).
- The popular pages of the Website are FAQ, LTE and LTE-Advanced.
- The popular pages of the blog are HSPA+ vs LTE, OFDM/OFDMA Difference and F-DPCH.
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year 2010
A demo made with Google Earth Plugin
De Bello Gallico….
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur. Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt. Gallos ab Aquitanis Garumna flumen, a Belgis Matrona et Sequana dividit.
Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad [...]
Google Earth 5.1: “FAST is better than SLOW”
In facts, in their official blog, Google Earth’s developers are saying:
We’ve made a lot of adjustments under the hood, like improving memory utilization so we can show more buildings, layers, and user content. We improved our shaders (that’s graphics-speak for small programs that run inside your graphics processor) to make the atmosphere draw faster. We [...]
WP di 3G Americas sulla allocazione dello spettro per 3G e 4G
3G Americas ha pubblicato un nuovo white paper sulla allocazione dello spettro per sistemi radio a larga banda. In particolare per quanto riguarda le frequenze liberate dalla TV analogica si dice:
“The Digital Dividend refers to the reallocation of significant amounts of spectrum as a result of the switchover from analog to digital TV, a phenomenon [...]
Google lancia il suo sistema operativo per PC: Google Chrome OS
Dopo il successo del
- sistema operativo per terminali mobili Android
- il browser Google Chrome
Google ha comunicato che rilascerà un sistema operativo anche per PC (netbook in particolare) basato su Linux.
Il suo nome è Google Chrome OS
Il prof. Capone su WIRED
Dall’edizione on-line di WIRED:
[...]
A spiegarmi gli usi delle reti wireless municipali è Antonio Capone, responsabile del sistema Mobimesh (quello adottato a Bagnara) e professore al Politecnico di Milano. Mentre sta per entrare a lezione, Capone continua a snocciolare i tanti servizi per i cittadini che potrebbero derivare dalla copertura totale delle città. «Eppure si sono [...]
Mobile WiMAX will outpace LTE in near term
From InStat’s latest report:
4G technologies are formally those that will meet the ITU’s IMT-Advanced requirements. The two technologies that are expected to meet these requirements include LTE Advanced and 802.16m WiMAX. 4G technologies are extensions of what we are just beginning to see today in mobile WiMAX and in LTE.
With 802.16e WiMAX deployments already [...]
Second Collapse of the Internet Economy Underway?
The original post by Quinthar
The first internet bubble popped largely because all business models failed except for ad selling. Is it possible that the last stalwart hope is itself doomed?
TechCrunch reports that Lookery, a company specializing in selling ad inventory on social networks, is barely breaking even despite selling 3 *billion* ads per month. And [...]
Aggiudicate le 35 licenze WiMAX a 3.5 GHz in Italia
ARIADSL e A.F.T. Linkem sono i due nuovi operatori wireless in Italia.
Ribaltando le nere previsioni della vigilia, entrano in campo due importanti nuovi operatori a banda larga in Italia. Le loro coperture sono a livello nazionale (a AFT mancano solo poche regioni), una dimensione necessaria a garantire a tutti i loro utenti un servizio senza [...]
Very Interesting WiMAX Blog
Network design, vendor selection, business plans and a lots of other standard new stuff needed before building a new radio access network are discussed daily on this interesting blog WiMAX360.
This blog is managed by the guys from WiMAX.com which is itself a must read website for vendor, operators and engineers committed to WiMAX.
On WiMAX360 I’ve [...]
AGCOM emette il regolamento per la gara WiMAX 3.5GHz in Italia
L’AGCOM ha emesso in via ufficiale il regolamento per l’asta per le frequenze a 3.5GHz da destinare ai servizi BWA/WiMAX in Italia. Inoltre, è stato pubblicato il riepilogo della consultazione pubblica avviata qualche tempo fa sullo stesso argomento.
Tra le condizioni che il Ministero delle Comunicazioni dovrà rispettare nel bando di gara, spiccano
- la suddivisione dei [...]
Interesting WiMAX resources
I’ve found the wimax360 blog very useful, lots of people interested in WiMAX network design are participating. I warmly suggest to take a tour.
Following some suggestions in one post in the previous blog I’ve bought two excellent books on WiMAX
1) Fundamentals of WiMAX: Understanding Broadband Wireless Networking by Andrews, Gosh and Muhamed, Prentice Hall, 2007
2) [...]