Archive | February, 2010
Wi-Fi turns School’s Buses into Study Halls
A pilot is now under way at one of Arizona’s school districts, where a couple of school buses are being equipped with an innovative Wi-Fi technology, allowing students to log into the Internet and start their homework while on route. For years, students at this district, outside Tucson, not unlike millions of students in the [...]
Continue reading...FCC to Propose Faster Broadband Speeds
19. February 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog dealing with a global study of Internet speed, where it was reported that the US is one of the few countries where the Internet is actually slowing down. On February 17, the Chairman of the FCC (Federal Communication Commission), Julius Genachowski, proposed a decade long program [...]
Continue reading...Is Apple’s IPAD a Game Changer?
10. February 2010
Since Steve Jobs presented Apple’s new addition, the IPAD, the press and the blogosphere are trying to assess the real impact on the new gadget. Is it a passing fad, like the Newton or the attempts by IBM to implement a tablet computer or a real game changer that finally, after almost 30 of personal [...]
Continue reading...Testing 3G Hand Held Inventory Devices using Shunra Virtual Enterprise (VE) Suite
8. February 2010
I was approached a couple of days ago by one of our large customers, a major food manufacturer, to help them design a testing cycle for an hand-held device, to scan barcodes on their product’s pallets, as they are being unloaded from supply trucks into their regional depots. The devices utilize a LAN based wireless [...]
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24. February 2010