UWB ==

A technology by any other name
Other terms for UWB include impulse, carrier-free, baseband, time domain, nonsinusoidal, orthogonal function, and large-relative-bandwidth radio/radar signals. According to Multispectral, the term ultra wideband was first applied to these systems around 1989 by the US Department of Defense.

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Standards and specs: A house divided

Self standing mobile

When placed on a flat surface, the weight ensures that the mobile phone remains upright in a vertical position, making it clearly visible and easy to take hold of when leaving in a hurry. Another advantage of a self-righting mobile phone is that its liquid crystal display is visible at all times.

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Self standing mobile phone

Wi-Fi overtakes Ethernet in home networking

People are adopting Wi-Fi so fast that it overtook Ethernet in home networking situation. Wireless is really the buzz word :)
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Wi-Fi Surpasses Ethernet for Home Networking

PC as ur cellphone

Swedect has done a cellphone dock and an application which will connect a cellphone to a PC and all the basic phone features can be accessed through the PC. One can use the PC's mic & speaker as Handsfree unit and the keyboard to type SMS and download the phonebook list to PC and call and more. The product supports the following companies' selected cellphones: SonyEricsson, Nokia, Siemens & Motorola.

For more info on this product please visit:
Swedect - Products - 9to5

Now it is Lasco.A's turn to infect mobile phones.

A Brazilian virus writer has unleashed a new mobile phone virus, called Lasco.A, that is capable of spreading both through the short-range wireless Bluetooth technology and by attaching itself to files, according to the Finnish antivirus company F-Secure.

The full article is at:
Yet Another Mobile Phone Virus Found

Tech bytes

You can find some of the technologies that power devices to control everything from home entertainment to security here
Untangling the technology

SMS via voice in the new Samsung cellphone

Samsung has developed a new cellphone which can convert voice into text messages. Soon handsfree SMS will also come up for many people who just can't SMS while driving.

Read more about the mobile phone at:
Samsung Electronics unveils "world's first" speech-to-text mobile

Smart phones are getting faster & faster

Three new concept phones from Samsung are packed with features. One of them runs faster than my home PC :) My home PC is a little old 450 MHz m/c while this phone runs at 500 MHz. Cool. Read more of them at:
Samsung’s three new concept cellphones

World's tallest building gets an indoor cellphone network

Ericsson has inked a contract to provide the indoor network for the world's tallest building--Taipei 101. The building got lots of press last weekend due to famed French free climber Alain Robert scaling all 101 floors. Such a large building poses a big problem for cellular access, but the network is going to be top shelf:

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Indoor cell network for world's tallest building