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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 [...]
IntelliJ IDEA support for Ruby and Ruby on Rails application development
IDEA, the great IDE for Java (SE,EE and ME), supports the development of Ruby and Ruy on Rails applications. More info and two demos available at Rails demo >> Ruby demo >> -Luca
WiMAX Tutorial Part I
I’ve re-edited some free stuff from Wikipedia and issued the first WiMAX tutorial for this blog. The second part will refer to radio network design aspects (e.g. to fulfill both coverage and capacity targets) and other spectrum related issues. Please check the Tutorial section, if any comment, please post it!
First SAMSUNG Mobile WiMAX device SPH-P9000
From their PR: The SPH-P9000 is a PDA-based device utilizing Mobile WiMAX and CDMA EV-DO connectivity. Users will have wireless access to the Internet utilizing Mobile WiMAX connectivity. Simultaneously, the CDMA EV-DO technology provides mobile phone connection for voice communication. With Microsoft Windows XP as the operating system, users will find the contents and applications [...]
The WiMAX buzz by Technorati
This is the WiMAX buzz according to Technorati blog search Posts that contain Wimax per day for the last 30 days. Get your own chart!
WiMAX Simulator from Prisma Engineering
Since middle last July, I’m with an incredible knownledge dense company name Prisma Engineering. We’are Milan,Italy based, and offer WiMAX, UMTS, GSM simulator for telecommunication vendors (Siemens, Ericsson, Alcatel, etc) and operators (Vodafone Italy, TIM, etc). In particular we’re pushing heavy effort on WiMAX since we believe this technology will spread at an incredibly fast [...]
PC to PC calls for free with JABBIN
I’ve been looking around the XMPP standard for Instant Messaging and Presence&Availability for two years now. I’ve been playing with common XMPP IM tools such as GAIM, Jabber Client, Smack, Gush. Last week I’ve been in touch with the guy (Stefano) who is the leader of the JABBIN project. JABBIN has the standard feature you [...]
Newest Nokia mobile N95 will support GPS based positioning
Nokia unveils its fully featured last smartphone N95. Among other interesting feature: – Integrated GPS and navigator – Screen size 240×320 pixels (no-touchscreen yet!) – Extended memory – Portrait orienation also for display Some N95 reviews: The Register AllAboutSymbian SymbianFreak Symbian.com NokiaPress Bye, -L
Telcontar and Mapquest offer LBS developer program
Telcontar and Mapquest had started recently developer programs like Y! and Google for their map web services. More info on respective web sites. Similar initiative from Via Michelin also. IMO, Y! and Google open API suffers from the lack or geocoding and vector maps for Europe (but UK). -L
Skype IN available in Italy soon?
Italy’s OFTEL (AGCOM) will issue very soon a regulatory document on new numbering schemes for geographic (+39-0xxx) and nomadic VOIP services (+39-5xxx). Will this decision speed up the Skype IN introduction in Italy? Links [it] Punto Informatico News AGCOM -Luca
Google Local J2ME application on Nokia N70
Overcoming all the confusion generally affecting Location Based Services and Applications on mobile terminals, the best first thing an ISP can do is to translate all desktop services towards mobiles. A well known US centric location service is offered by Google Local has been developed in a J2ME version also. It uses all the GIS/Satellite [...]
2006: the year of LBS mass market launch?
According to this article by D H Williams on Direction Magazine, Location Based Services have to take off (really) in 2006 and 2007.Infacts, most of technical problems (common standards, terminal computation power and -above all- position accuracy) seem to be solved easily. -L