Here are a few RTLS and wireless updates:
- UWB RTLS vendor Ubisense raised £5M to fund expansion. And 50 Ubisense tags are available on eBay with a starting bid of $9.99.
- Another UWB RTLS vendor, decaWave, was honored for “best technology development” at a tradeshow.
- It’s Nearly Time for Near-Field Communication according to Mark Roberti at RFID Journal.
- Should cell phone jammers be mandatory inside cars? Adam Thierer at The Technology Liberation Front thinks not: Mandatory Cell Phone Jammers in Cars: Unwise, Unsafe, Unneeded.
- Here’s an old but interesting piece I found on “televisionary” Philo T. Farnsworth, though I disagree with the author’s contention that big technologies require big companies for successful development. On that subject, here’s an excerpt from Tim Wu on how AT&T suppressed technology that might upset its business model. Wu wrote The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books), a book I’m going to have to review soon.
2 thoughts on “RTLS and Wireless Updates”
The AT&T article reminds me of my frustration when Apple came out with “visual voicemail”. It was something that should have been possible as soon as both caller ID and answering machines were available. Even now there’s untapped possibilities: calls from a group or not from a group could be ignored, ring through despite silencing, or go straight to voicemail. I’ve only used the iPhone, but I doubt the others are offering such things. Even something as simple as recording one’s own ringtone seems to be missing; I imagine recording my wife calling out my name as the ringtone for her number, for example.