Guest Post by Kai Siwiak, TimeDerivative, Inc. Unless otherwise indicated, all quotes are from: K. Siwiak and D. McKeown, UWB Radio Technology, (Wiley, 2004) We pause to reflect on the rise and fall of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, and especially on the recent reorganization of Time Domain Corporation, a UWB pioneer […]
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A few quick picks… The National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA) is welcoming public comments on dealing with contraband cell phones in prisons. Submit your comments before June 11. Hat tip: Ars Technica. Elliot revisits the cell phone ban on airplanes. Chiropractor in Frederick, MD cleanses “EMF toxins” using ancient […]
So what happens in an emergency when you tune to local radio stations for information and all you can get are automated stations with the same pre-recorded music and off-color DJ chat? Residents of Minot, ND found out the hard way in 2002 when a train derailment released clouds of […]
Annually FierceWireless picks its list of fifteen “Fierce” wireless start-ups. The 2010 honorees are a diverse lot, including a VC firm, suppliers of wireless applications for niche markets, and a company trying to bring comic books to smart phones. My personal favorite is an outfit called “PowerMat” which offers inductive […]
Tesla Motors – manufacturer of the Tesla Roadster – will be using a $50M investment from Toyota to buy a recently closed auto plant in Fremont, CA. Blogger turned Senate candidate Mickey Kaus wonders if the project will be doomed by UAW involvement.
T-Mobile needs to add capacity to its San Fransisco Bay Area networks. The Boy Scouts have a camp on an elevated site perfect for a tower. And a little cash to keep their camp maintained wouldn’t hurt, either. T-Mobile offered to pay $2200/month for a 30-year lease to the tower […]
Geoff, blogging at Innocent Bystander, updates the unemployment rate monthly, comparing it to the Obama administration’s original projection. Here’s the update though the end of April. The dark blue curve is the projection with the stimulus package. The light blue curve is the miserable future forecast to await us if […]
Gizmodo – last mentioned here as the web site that famously bought the stolen iPhone prototype – broke Twitter earlier today by sharing a hack that allowed any Twitter user to force any other Twitter user to follow them. Details here.
The new 1099 mandate I previously discussed here is beginning to attract more attention. Currently, businesses submit 1099’s for every consultant or contractor they hire. Under the new rules, businesses must submit 1099s for every other business with whom they do business. This mandate will inundate small businesses with the […]
Scientist Clive Wing claims to have invented a plasma based light source that mimics sunlight but without the heat. Unfortunately technical details are sketchy. Press report here. Some technical data are here. It looks promising, if it works as claimed.
Apparently, lawyers with too much time and too few clients on hand have made a sport of suing cereal producer Kellogg for fraud. It seems Kellogg doesn’t actually include fruit in their Froot Loops. More here. Hat Tip: OverLawyered. Now that that’s been resolved, on to more important questions: Where […]
The other day I heard a GM commercial on the radio in which their CEO boasts about having “repaid our government loan, with interest, five years ahead of the original schedule.” Here’s a video version. But as Shikha Dalmia notes at Forbes, it’s still Government Motors. The U.S. gave GM […]
Another “benefit” of the new health care bill is yet another IRS mandate. This one is a doozy. When a business pays an outside consultant or contractor more than $600 in a given year, that business is required to issue a 1099 form reporting the payment to the consultant or […]
My company has a summer intern program for undergraduates. A good number of resumes pass through my inbox. But I have never seen an intern applicant with this kind of attitude.
Responding to complaints from AT&T mobility regarding interference, the Dallas Office of the FCC discovered a 5W cell phone jammer in operation at the Cosmetology Career Center in Carrollton, TX. Judging by the enforcement letter, there appears to be no indication that the folks at the Cosmetology Career Center received […]
You may have followed the saga of the Apple engineer who “lost” a prototype of the next generation iPhone in a bar? A prototype that just happened to end up with technology blog Gizmodo? Of course, there was skepticism about how accidental that might have been, largely dispelled by Gizmodo. […]
This interesting article from the NYT compares and contrasts the safety and business practices of the Upper Big Branch Mine with those of the nearby E3-1 Mine, run by TECO Coal Corporation. While the details on the culture and practice of mine safety are of technical interest, of greater interest […]