News @ Cisco: Mike Wagner, director of worldwide marketing for Linksys, on Why Wireless Home Networking is in the Air in Europe

Mike Wagner, director of worldwide marketing for Linksys, on Why Wireless Home Networking is in the Air in Europe

Cirronet: Farmers Go Wireless

Cirronet is mentioned in the following news blurb: Farmers Go Wireless.

Digital Image Sensor

How the latest digital-camera sensors create sharper color photographs. More...

Chip sales soar in May, Best month since Dec 2000

"The world continues to buy ever larger quantities of semiconductors, with the chip industry selling $17.32bn worth of them in May 2004, 2.1 per cent more than it did in April and 36.9 per cent more than it sold in May 2003.
According to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), there's usually a jump in chip sales mid way through Q2. However, May's figures represent the highest monthly sales since December 2000." More...

Pentagon: Rough RFID Ride Ahead?

"It's always a little nerve-wracking when big businesses or government bureaucracies wager on a new technology, especially when the technology in question involves the fate of thousands of suppliers and billions in inventory. So Wal-Mart Stores and the U.S. Department of Defense have no doubt rattled some with their embrace of radio frequency identification, or RFID, as the next big thing for managing their supply chains. Both outfits have deadlines this coming January for significant RFID rollouts." More...

RFID is Proprietary?

"Intermec Technologies, a division of UNOVA that specializes in supply chain technology around barcoding and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, began litigation against RFID tag and reader manufacturer Matrics last month. Today the company, as well as an analyst, discussed the broader repercussions of that decision with Line56." More...

Destination Wi-Fi, by Rail, Bus or Boat

"THE Klickitat, a 1927 steel ferry boat plying waters between a 19th-century port and an island harbor, may seem a quaint way to travel - and an unlikely place to get work done. But it may be headed for a new frontier in Internet access for commuters.

The ship is the test bed for a plan to offer high-speed wireless Internet access on most Washington State ferry runs, serving tens of thousands of regular commuters." More...