During CES in Las Vegas this past week, Sony demonstrated their own proprietary form of UWB they called “Transfer Jet”. It is a very low power version of UWB operating at 1000 times less power than standard UWB signals – which are already 100 times less than WiFi or Bluetooth. The frequency spectrum they used […]

This past week Alereon achieved another industry first for UWB technology – we were the first company to introduce a UWB chipset for WiMedia and Certified Wireless USB applications that is capable of operating at any frequency band between 3.1GHz and 10.6GHz. For those of you that are highly technical, this is a remarkable feat […]

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 […]

In Lost Wages, Nevada this past week, the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place. As has been customary over the last few years, many top companies competed for the prize of “largest plasma TV” or “largest LCD.” Again this year, Blu-Ray was making noise - but for the first time ever there were real […]

I have been heard to say that Wireless USB could transform portable smart phones. In particular, I’ve postulated that as PDA phones become smarter, there would come a day when they could replace your laptop. That day may be coming much sooner than I thought. Recently, Qualcomm released a veritable blizzard of announcements. One that […]

Today, October 23rd, 2006, is the 5th anniversary of the iPod. The fact that we are celebrating five years of the iPod, having changed remarkably little (with the exception of adding video) over the years, is a testament to the ease of use of iTunes, the cool factor of the brand, it’s intrinsic simplicity and […]

Recently Microsoft introduced the ZUNE media player. The media pre-announced its ability to play some subset of X-Box games that didn’t materialize. This would have been a killer differentiating feature. Perhaps it will show up in a future model? What is included in the ZUNE is the ability to share music from one player to […]

Last Thursday (September 28th) Kodak, Intel and Alereon announced a joint technology demonstration that showed a Wireless USB enabled V610 dual lens Kodak digital camera transferring pictures wirelessly to a PC. On the PC side of the wireless link there was an Intel-Alereon designed dongle plugged in to the standard USB port on a laptop. […]

In a recent article Mark Hachman wrote an article (A UWB-Enabled iPod: Too Cool for School?) speculating on how cool a UWB enabled iPod or MP3 player might be. He goes on to say that every UWB executive, and I am one of them, wants to marry UWB technology to an iPod or a new […]