http://blog.alereon.com Life Without Wires™ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:20:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://blog.alereon.com/2008/06/17/wimax-or-maybe-it%e2%80%99s-wi-min/ 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 ... http://blog.alereon.com/2008/05/13/with-laptops-thin-is-in/ 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 ... http://blog.alereon.com/2008/03/06/bluetooth-on-overdrive-uwb-at-a-penny-per-megabit-per-second/ 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 ... http://blog.alereon.com/2008/02/26/wimax-or-why-max/ 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 ... http://blog.alereon.com/2008/02/20/no-moto-no-mo/ 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 ... http://blog.alereon.com/2008/01/23/oleds-2160-hdtv-and-more-from-ces-2008/ 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. ... http://blog.alereon.com/2008/01/16/sony%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9ctransfer-jet%e2%80%9d-vs-the-international-wimedia-uwb-standard/ There has been a lot written lately about Android, the so-called Google Phone platform. There are even short video introductions on YouTube about the developer’s kits as well as the announcement of a Google contest for the coolest applications. Since I don’t have time to build my own entry into ... http://blog.alereon.com/2007/11/26/my-virtual-entry-in-the-google-phone-contest-%e2%80%93-the-clean-desk%e2%84%a2-wireless-docking-station/ As a general rule, it is rare that I have time during the course of a normal business day to write an entry for my blog. Nearly all of my entries are written at an altitude of 30 thousand feet, and this one is no exception. I have read with ... http://blog.alereon.com/2007/11/19/sometimes-roses-have-thorns-%e2%80%93-what-to-expect-next-from-wireless-usb/ Some of the early reviews for the first Certified Wireless USB PC Accessory products are now coming to press. Many of them are not particularly flattering. Some of the comments are valid enough. Others I think are a bit off base. What I find interesting, however, is how so many ... http://blog.alereon.com/2007/10/29/a-rose-by-any-other-name-whatever-or-my-frustration-with-wireless-product-reviews/