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UQ Communications – a Japanese consortium led by KDDI and also including Intel, JR East, Kyocera and several banks – launches a commercial Mobile Wimax trial service at Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki. Nagoya and Osaka will also go online in June. This means the major areas of Japan will be covered at a 40$ monthly flat-rate, a rather interesting fee.

They also will offer a Wifi service on Shinkansen trains that will be available for all customers by September (though some commercial clients will have it by March).

We’ll have to wait patiently until we see this in Europe.

Via WirelessWatch

Lexar creates its own SD WiFi Memory Card. It’s a card-based Eye-Fi cards.
Eye-Fi cards are known to be SD cards with integrated Wi-Fi, doing possible send photos automatically to PC’s or Web Sites. Before using these cards, you must configured with a computer, indicating which is the target computer (or website), in addition to insert configuration data of the wireless network that you are going to use to connect.
Eye-Fi company manufactures three types of cards:

• Eye-Fi Home (80$). Just to send photos to a PC within a local area Wifi.
• Eye-Fi Share (99$). Lets you send and upload photos to a PC or a website.
• Eye-Fi Explore (130$). Allows geotagging the photos (using Skyhook) and send them to a PC or upload to a website. Besides, allows the use of Hotspot access for one year.

All these cards have a capacity of 2GB, have to be configured before you use them and the photos just are sent when they detect that are within the range of wifi network.

I think Lexar has used the Share cards to create its own SD cards Shoot-n-Sync, but iam not sure.

Product Highlights (Shoot-n-Sync):

• Upload photos automatically, effortlessly, and wirelessly
• Instantly connects and wirelessly transfers photos via your home Wi-Fi network
• Backup photos to your PC and easily share them on favorite photo-sharing websites
• Works with SD-compatible digital cameras
• No cables, no cradles, no hassles
• Combines Lexar memory card technology with wireless technology from Eye-Fi
• Includes USB card reader for one-time setup
• 1-year limited warranty

In my opinion, I think is a very good idea because it lets you send photos instantly without the worry about nothing. You can use this to create backup of your photos or just to send them to friends.

Via Gizmologia

Google has recently launched two ways of locating users behind web applications. Fistly we have the AJAX API, that allows to get an estimate of a user’s location based on their IP address. Secondly we have the Gears Geolocation API, we will concentrate in this one.

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What the hell is this?, Please read this article from CrunchGear and tell me what do you think, it is insane!

Intel remotely fired up the audience today at the IDF R&D Forum Keynote by wirelessly powering a light bulb from a distance of 2 feet away. Using a signal generator and a power amplifier, wireless power transfer was effectively showcased by Alanson Sample from Intel Research, Seattle. Transmitting 60 watts at 75% efficiency, the technology lit up a small light bulb perched upon a set of odd-looking coils.

Originally developed at MIT, the demonstration worked by creating resonance between two magnetic fields. A comparison would be the famous example of an opera singer maintaining a high note long enough to shatter glass. This was the first public demonstration since the prototype was first developed last year.

With a four-year time frame in mind, the technology could eventually be used to power everything from laptops to cell phones. If the technology can be scaled for ubiquity, it “might make more sense to charge a capacitor instead of a battery”. When leaving an area supplied by wireless power, future devices could run off of quickly charging capacitors.

Can you think on a technology that makes one’s hair stand on end, everywhere!? not me, it is an utopia nowadays, unless the technology change in a healthy way, it might never go ahead .

Via CrunchGear

Some days ago we wrote about home automation through iPhone in this post, now it is time to talk about home automation through a Windows Mobile handset using Twitter.

It is as simple as incredible, you can set up your laptop and connect it to your light switches (or any other electrical device) and control the device by sending text messages to your twitter account. Please check this video to believe what i am saying.

It seems simple (depending on your skills), you only need iLink Insteon software and a home automation light controller available on Ebay, and of course a mobile phone with a twitter client instaled.

Using your Twitter client and sending messages no longer than 140 characters to your own account, it allows through iLink Insteon software controls any device you set.

It is very interesting for me and Rafael, imagine set your home devices through your mobile phone while you are on the road coming back home from work. Cool : )

Via Hack N Mod

Why are we talking about a GPS in a mobile technology blog? To be honest, I have made myself the same question. But when you analyse Dash GPS, several mobile reminiscences come into your mind. It is a GPS, that’s true, but with WiFi and GPRS connectivy, the most important feature of this GPS. It allows you to send your localization in real time to the central server, being able to receive updated traffic information. The possibility of avoiding traffic jams is closer than ever!!!

Another interesting option is that it allows you to create mash-up applications on top of Dash GPS system. Funambol has integrated myFunambol with Dash GPS, sending your calendar Appointments to your GPS!!! Can you imagine it? Early in the morning, you get into your car and you can see your appointments directly in the GPS screen. Moreover, it guides you to the appointment location through the best route. Amazing!!!

Via Xataka
Link Funambol Post

It is incredible how the WiFi integration is spreading all over the electronic gadgets. The last chips to be infected with this WiFi-virus are SD cards.

Eye-Fi integrates a regular SD card with a WiFi module, allowing any device with a SD slot into a wireless device. This fact greatly expands the current market of Wi-Fi enabled digital cameras.

Other features:

• 2 Gb flash memory
• WEP-128 and WPA-PSK encryption
• 100$ price.

Via My digital life

The bus company Alsa has announced that, during the course of this month, they will provide Wifi connection in their buses of Supra’s series. These buses are the most expensive ones of the company and they could be called of first class or luxury buses.

This service works thanks to an agreement with Vodafone which will place HSDPA routers , capable of providing service to a maximum of 3,6 mbps.

However, and according to the company report, are unclear how the connection will operate in areas where the phone signal is too weak or almost non-existent. However, in locations of good coverage, it will work with 3G technology and in zones with low coverage will be connected through GPRS.

In one word, enough to check the mail and read news, but little more.

Via Gizmología

Brithish Telecom has signed a deal with FON in order to flash all BT routers in the UK with the FON software. This software allows the bandwidth of an ADSL connection to be shared via WiFi with people that is not the ADSL subscriber.

You can join FON for free, activate their software in your router and then share your ADSL connection. Then, you will be able to attach other access points of the FON network. This way, FON aims to create the world’s largest WiFi network, thus providing global coverage and trying to take up the position of mobile carries providing connectivity.

But, the problem FON was facing to reach its goal was capilarity. While they had a lot of points of access all over the world, more than any other wireless network, they had not good coverage in any certain area, and so, they can not offer a good ‘connectivity’ on the move.

In order to solve this problem, FON starts to negotiate with ADSL providers trying to persuade them to include FON’s software in their client’s routers, but not many carriers were receptive to such an idea. At the same time, following a similar strategy, FON has collaborated with councils trying to cover complete small/medium size cities.

And, finally…. Martin Varsavsky seems to have achived his objective. At least, this is a great step forward. With the current deal, BT and FON have created the world’s largest WiFi community, counting with BT’s ADSL subscribers and the Wi-Fi Openzone access points network, that includes 12 ‘Wireless Cities’, all in UK, in addition to the current FON subscribers.

The deal with BT in UK, and the former deal with Neuf in France, could be the definite backing for FON in its idea to provide a global WiFi coverage. And if you are a member of the FON community, just for free.

Via MartinVarsavsKy
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Deutsche Lufthansa AG is poised to join with a team headed by cellular-telephone giant T-Mobile to offer broadband Internet access and wireless email to its long-haul passengers, industry officials said.

On the other hand, Lufthansa has no immediate plans to allow long-haul passengers to talk on their own portable phones, but who needs it if you can use skype, VoIP or similar through your mobile phone using a WIFI connection?

Via The Wall Street Journal online