Monthly Archives: November 2003
Impinj Readies Rollout of Chips for RFID Tracking
Impinj Inc. has been developing a tag that integrates RFID semiconductor components for inventory management.The companys tags adhere to a new standard that supports...
Sun to Open RFID Test Center for Wal-Mart Suppliers
Sun Microsystems Inc. will open a center in Dallas to test Wal-Marts implementation of RFID in its inventory-management system.Wal-Mart will use the Electronic Product...
Intel Purchases Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Developer
Intel Corp. has acquired Mobilian Inc., a wireless systems company that develops chips, software and reference designs to support multiple wireless radio standards in...
Companies Pledge Intel-Based WiMAX Products
Aperto Networks Inc., Airspan Networks Inc., and Alvarion Ltd. have announced plans to use Intel Corp.s silicon in their 802.16a products.Intel in July announced...
Pulse-Link Teams With Appairent on Ultrawideband
Pulse-Link Inc. has announced a deal to use Appairents 802.15.3 media access control in Pulse-Links ultrawideband chip designs. The companies will work together to...
Survey: Biggest Databases Approach 30 Terabytes
Led by a surge in the amount of data being analyzed in data warehouses, the worlds largest databases are pushing new heights as they...
IBM Takes the Veil Off Project Vela
IBM Corp. has put a name on its strategy to componentize its middleware on the way to delivering service-oriented architectures (SOAs), primarily through componentizing...
Apple—Just Says No to Intel
Apple Computer held its annual financial analysts meeting on Wednesday of this week, and the conference included several glimpses of the Cupertino, California companys...
BlueSocket: Easy, Effective, Expensive
The companys appliance encrypts traffic coming through wireless access points and authenticates users. But it does not come cheap. (Baseline)Imagine youve just been asked...
When Employees Do the Monitoring
Your employees probably expect their e-mail and computer use to be monitored. Theyd probably be shocked to find their phone calls on the watch...