Gary Eckstein Smart Grid 0 infrastructure, mobile data, mobile devices, mobile networks, Smart, smart city, Smart Grid, smart infrastructure, smart technology, smart water, technology, wimax, wireless
Ericsson has announced that there are 5 billion mobile/cell phone subscriptions worldwide. Certainly a huge number however there was another bit of interesting information provided by Ericsson that illustrates how we are still in the infancy of mobile communications: I was interested to see the following statement from Ericsson: ‘December of last year [2009], another [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 Australia, Australian, government, IEEE, Intel, Internet, Microsoft, nbn, networking, Patents, radioastronomy, Research, wireless, WLAN
Well done to CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization which patented a solution commonly used in wireless networking (specifically WLAN 802.11a, 802.11g and 802.11n). This Australian Government organization has agreed with various corporate users of its technology to a $200 million payout in licensing revenue. These users include Toshiba, Netgear, Buffalo, D-Link, Belkin, [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 apple ipod, consumer electronics, electronics, Internet, iphone, ipod, ipod touch, mobile, skype, twitter, wireless
For various clients in the past I have provided business cases for technology including the assessment and procurement of competing Information Technology products. Apple products have been a part of the assessment particularly in education based organizations. The Apple products have generally competed against PC variants such as Dell, HP, Lenovo and Acer and the [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 Australia, fttp, Internet, nbn, web, wireless
One doesn’t need to be a ‘techie’. Just plain common sense makes it so obvious that the Australian Governments Internet Broadband plan (NBN – National Broadband Network) is ill conceived and wasteful to the extreme. Sure the need for wider access to the Internet as well as high speed Internet isn’t debatable. The method of [...]
