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Intel's Light Peak: One PC cable to rule them all
News Chipmaker wants to replace today's hodge-podge of copper cables with single type of optical connection, and hopes standardization will help it catch on.
Tags: Components, Intel Corp., UWB, QoS, Cable, monitor, wireless communication, PC, Components, Sony Corp.
Singapore to ease UWB restrictions
News IDA's latest proposal aims to make it easier for the development and commercialization of ultra-wideband applications.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks
S'pore: A UWB zone of their own
News Ultra-wideband (UWB), the technology seen by many to be the next wave in wireless, will get a boost in Singapore, where an area has been zoned to test UWB equipment.
WiMedia Alliance calls it a day
News The industry group set up to develop and promote ultrawideband technology will close shop, and will pass on its technological specifications to other industry groups.
Tags: Bluetooth, UWB, Wireless USB, Wireless, USB, Bluetooth Special Interest Group, Bluetooth, Personal Area Network, WiMedia Alliance, industry
UWB backers confident despite company closures
News After two key players in the ultrawideband and wireless USB industry collapsed, the WiMedia Alliance has insisted the technology itself is not to blame.
Tags: Bandwidth, Intel Corp., UWB, Wireless, USB, Dallas, Lenovo Group Ltd., WiMedia Alliance, industry, chipset
Staccato: Wireless USB to be big in 2009
News As the chipmaker unveils its Ripcord 2 65nm CMOS ultrawideband system on a chip, its CEO claims PC makers will start offering wireless USB more widely next year.
Tags: Bandwidth, Processors, UWB, Broadcom Corp., Wireless USB, Wireless, USB, Lenovo Group Ltd., network, killer application
Samsung to team on ultrawideband
News Samsung and chipmaker Staccato Communications are scheduled to announce plans Tuesday to develop commercially available products using ultrawideband, a wireless rival to Bluetooth.
Wireless chips take their first steps
News Chips using the very powerful, and controversial, ultrawideband wireless technique are on their way for testing by device makers.
U.S. approves new wireless technology
News "Ultrawideband" is a faster and more secure way of sending wireless transmissions. But the U.S. military and others say the signals interfere with their own operations.
Ultrawideband gets new standards hearing
News An international standards body will try again next week to settle on an industrywide blueprint for UWB, or ultrawideband, a wireless technology meant to rival Bluetooth.
Ultrawideband partners merge
Insight Two of the major groups in ultrawideband development, the WiMedia Alliance and the Multiband OFDM Alliance, have merged.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless
Swimming against the wireless tide
News While most companies are adding the latest wireless breakthroughs to any device imaginable, one player is actually looking to use a wireless technology over wires.
Bluetooth gets high-speed boost
News The technology's special interest group chooses WiMedia Alliance's ultrawideband technology for high-speed Bluetooth.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Bluetooth
EC officially backs ultrawideband
News Ofcom is poised to legalize ultrawideband products in the United Kingdom by the spring.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Next-generation technology/networks
Consensus builds for ultra wideband
News An accord between Intel and TI takes the stage as standards creators meet to ponder a host of proposals for the wireless standard, which could rival Bluetooth and perhaps Wi-Fi.
