In an attempt to attract even more customers, Starbucks introduces their new free AT&T WiFi. The company finished their WiFi plans for AT&T registered Card users and reached an agreement with the phone carrier corporation. (more…)
Google, Microsoft and other renowned companies united their forces trying to obtain permission to use the “white space”, an unused portion of the airwaves spectrum. Federal Communication Commission (FCC), the agency who is in charge with regulation of al non-Federal Government use of the radio spectrum, has already received a six page letter, containing the possible impact of using this part of the spectrum, such as cheaper and easier access to the Internet through small devices all over the US. It’s a pity, in Google specialists’ opinion, to let this piece of spectrum unused, without giving a chance to Internet based communications to expand.
According to Intel, they had found a way to improve the Wi-Fi signal area and now they are able to connect antennas located 96 miles away from each other. Jeff Galinovsky, senior platform manager at Intel, called this new Wi-Fi tech Rural Connectivity Platform or RCP. The name cames from the fact that this wireless is destined to connect to the internet far away villages.
With the RCP the information is transmitted at about 6.5 Megabits per second and will be very useful for telemedicine and video conferences. The secret behind RCP was revealed by Galinovsky and consists of the software which seems to remake the rules behind wireless communication.
RCP was tested by Intel in countries like India, South Africa, Vietnam and Panama, and they will begin the commercialization in India as of this year for less than $500.
American Airlines is one of the largest airline companies in the world. It was founded in 1930 and at first was called American Airways. Now, they are preparing to improve their services by introducing in-flight WiFi and anti-missile system. The pricing of WiFi varies depending on the duration of the flight, $10 for less than three hours and $12.95 for more than three hours. The will begin offering these services this summer for the 767-200 aircraft and we are expecting to introduce these services to its entire fleet.
The wireless spectrum we have been talking about recently hasn’t yet been auctioned, but Japan already has plans for it. Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has stated they are going to use the 715-725Mhz for an inter-vehicle communications system, as Tech-On published. The new technology is designed to reduce accidents, by allowing vehicles to communicate with each other and help the driver.They were planning to use the technology with the 5.8Ghz band, but it’s too easily blockable by obstables, so they decided to better use the 700Mhz band.
