I am not sure why it is, but nearly every time I participate in a press meeting or do a UWB technology interview, I inevitably get asked a question about WiMax. To be honest, given that UWB is not a cellular technology, I don’t dwell on WiMAX every day. However, given how frequently I get […]

Recently both Apple and Lenovo introduced some very thin laptops; the MacBook Air and the Lenovo x300. The MacBook Air is a very elegant looking machine. Very sleek. To make it really sleek, Apple dropped all external connectors from the edge of the product, with the exception of one USB port hidden under a flap. […]

Recently much has been written about the BT SIG’s decision to add WiFi (announced at the GSMA conference opening a few weeks ago in Barcelona) as a means of speeding up certain BT applications in cell phones. Many have conjectured that this announcement means the BT SIG is walking away from UWB. Though controversy and […]

I attended the GSMA (formerly 3GSM) Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, Spain two weeks ago. The show is all about anything and everything mobile - from handsets and billing systems to new technologies.
As a technologist, I track the new and emerging services and wireless technologies. One of the most hyped new technologies is WiMax […]

In a blog written about Life Without Wires™, it is interesting to note the announcement made recently by the CEO of Motorola in what amounted to an admission that Motorola plans to sell or spin off their wireless handset business.
Handsets, after all, were the fourth wave in the evolution of technologies that free us from […]

I recently attended the 2008 edition of CES – the Consumer Electronics Show. There have been lots of reports about the show already, but perhaps a few more comments won’t hurt.
To be candid, most of my time was spent meeting with customers. However I did spend many hours walking the floors looking for interesting trends and […]

For those of you interested in the future of Life Without Wires™ you may or may not be aware that a large portion of the old analog TV radio spectrum will soon be auctioned off by the government. The current chairperson of the FCC, Kevin Martin, has been widely quoted as saying that the aim […]

In essentially all of my blog articles I have touched on products, or product concepts, that are part of a future Life Without Wires™. An area I have not written about however is life with no new wires – which is a bit different. For our part, Alereon is staying focused on Certified Wireless USB […]

For 97% of my readers, February 14, 2007 is Valentine’s Day. For UWB however, it is the 5th anniversary of the establishment of UWB regulations in the US, making it legal to transmit UWB signals in the 3.2 to 10.6GHz range, provided certain technical guidelines are met. Having been in the industry for four years […]

There will be much written about the iPhone, from Walt in the Wall Street Journal to teenager bloggers and industry pundits. My thought then is to play the futurist for a moment and resist the temptation to gush about the great interface, the beautiful screen or to wonder about how well you can type with […]