Could Bluetooth get faster next year?

A new technologie is going to hit the streets in the middle of next year.Bluetooth is working on linking bluetooth and Wi-Fi in the goal of making the transfer process more easier and faster:transfering a big number of music from computers to cell phones ,sending pictures from phone camera to the printer...

The combination devices will use the regular low-power Bluetooth radios to recognise each other and establish connections.If they need to transfer a large file, they will be able to turn on their Wi-Fi radios, then turn them off to save power after finishing the transfer, Foley said.

This new technology have no name and may cause a kind of confusion for users which are using Bluetooth-UWB devices..

The idea of this tech is to combine Bluetooth and wi-fi and use a common chip for Wifi and Bluetooth not like laptops which use 2 different chips.

Rawane

RSS

RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. RSS feeds are just a special kind of web page, designed to be read by computers rather than people. It might help to think of them as the free, internet version of the old-fashioned ticker-tape news wire machines. Not all websites currently provide RSS, but it is growing rapidly in popularity and many others, including the BBC, Guardian, New York Times and CNN provide it. Below is the icon for an RSS feed.

(Really Simple Syndication) is a method of receiving constantly updated links to your chosen websites. Once you have set up a connection to a website you will receive a list of all the stories currently shown on a certain page or section of that site.
How can I receive RSS feeds?
There are several ways of receiving RSS feeds, but the technology is moving forwards and adapting very quickly. The main method is to download a program called a 'News Reader'. You can then set up this program to receive RSS information from whatever websites you wish that offer it, and browse headlines and story summaries that link through to the full story on the website.
There are several News Reader programs available for all platforms, many of which are free. Alternatively, some newer web browsers offer similar functionality already built-in which will detect whether the website you are viewing offers an RSS feed and will then let you create a constantly-updated list of links in your 'bookmarks' menu.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/dmstandard/article.html?

Tala

Just an info

Sweden offers a taste of the future of networking. Sigbritt Löthberg, 75 year old mother of Peter Löthberg, is the proud owner of the world's fastest home internet connection: 40 Gigabits per second.

Peter said that he was sent by God to network the world.

This huge connection can acheive: 1500 simultaneous HDTV channels, or a whole HD DVD in two seconds.can you imagine?

Here it is our guy

For more info visit wired.com

Rawane

Novatel Wireless Ovation U727

Want an access to the internet wherever you are?Here is the solution:Wireless ovation U27.This machine allows users to connect to the net anywhere there is a cellular signal.That’s because this puppy uses the EV-DO signal, a mobile broadband technology that supplies download speeds from 600kbps to 1.4MBps and uploads averaging 350 to 500Kbps.It looks like the ordinary USB that we all have to save information.All we have to do is to connect it to our portable laptop next to a cellphone for signals.It strength of connection depend on the signal bars found on the cell phone.

So don't worry if you are underground, you can easily access latest news and information through web,all you need is to search a zone that your cell has a signal in and put the ovation in the laptop.1 bar signal is enough to make the ovation works.

For more info:wired.com

Rawane

Bluetooth

Bluetooth, a short-range wireless communications system intended for personal area networks and inter-personal networks.Bluetooth exists in many products, such as telephones, printers, modems and headset.Bluetooth can acheive transfering in a range of 10 meters between mobile phones and 200 meters between laptops.

Services of Bluetooth:

1. Bluebugging is a form of bluetooth attack.It allows users to control others phone by listenning to their conversations,making phone calls through their phones and sending messages.




2. Bluecasting is generally provisioned by a Bluetooth Kiosk a physical server provisioning the digital media over bluetooth to interested devices. Bluetooth Kiosks are generally located in public spaces such as malls, bars or mass-transit terminals.




3. Bluechat allowed users to have a conversation between them in publis spaces.




4. Bluedating is a bluetooth service that give users the opportunity to find a partner.All they have to do is to enter details about themselves and about the partner they would like to meet.When there is a match (in a range of 10meters) users will be alerted .




5. Bluejacking is advertising through bluetooth by sending messages to bluetooth devices.




6. Bluesnafring is stealing information,pictures from others bluetooth devices.




7. Bluesniping as its name shows is a method of sniping on others bluetooth devices.

For more Info click here

Rawane

WiFi2.0

"White space spectrum" or" WiFi2.0" or "WiFi on Steroïds" is a new generation of wireless devices created by Google to provide us a new way of connection to the internet through TV White Space(TV airwaves located between channel 2 and 51 TV that aren’t hooked up to satellite or cable).


Till now Google is still working on that project and in the late of 2009 probably it will see the light when TV broadcasters switch from analogue to digital signals.This spectrum according to Rick Whitt, Google's Washington telecom and media counsel,could eventually offer data transmission speeds of billions of bits per second -- far faster than the millions of bits per second available on most current broadband networks. Consumers could watch movies on wireless devices and do other things that are currently difficult on slower networks.Google beleives that this spectrum has a strong potention to give its users the ability to download or use any application they want.


Also Google proposed using spectrum-sensing technology to protect the airwaves used by the military.This spectrum-sensing tech can provide google the capability of freeing up the airwaves when military needs them in case of emergencies.


Sources:

1- The Boston Glob


2- Releaselog RLSLOG.net - Hot info about new scene releases!
The following blog post is from


3-wired.com

RAWANE

New Ways To Connect: Non-profit Initiatives for Free Public Wi-Fi Access

After the governmental attempts to provide free Wi-Fi access to the public in many major U.S cities have failed, a group of non-profit organizations are now working together to try to accomplish what the government failed to do. Some of the initatives already are underway with funding in some cases amounting to 61 Million Dollars.





"There was a lot of breathlessness about municipal wireless. People thought it was going to be a silver bullet to bring ubiquitous access and affordable broadband in the United States. They were wrong," said Alec Ross, executive vice president of One Economy, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. "In the post-municipal WiFi world, we need to focus on community broadband."





Backed up and funded by AT&T, One Economy is launching a two-year program to provide free wireless internet to over half a million people in under privileged communities across the United States.



Other non-profit organizations are also planning to start with similar projects. But even though the planning and funding of these other projects are totally independant, they're going to be using the same infrastructure that's already existing.





These projects aim to make up for the many failures that the municipalities of major cities such as Philadelphia and L.A suffered after failed attempts to provide free municipal wi-fi.

For more information, visit wired.com

Rawane.

World Wind

NASA have released a Java component called World Wind that enables developers to build something that includes Google Earth-like 3D map data. This component can be added to for example a Swing application and the developer can create a mashup in any way they see fit.
The terrain is 3D, so you don't just zoom in and out on a flat image you can roll/tilt/yaw, it's mountainous; in one example they have a flight sim that lets you fly a plane over some real mountains which turns a globe into a game.

Normally this kind of tech is very expensive, so it's great of them to donate this data and it opens up a world of opportunities for developers.

At its simplest you can think of World Wind as a desk globe, however World Wind is not a simple desk globe.
World Wind allows any user to zoom from outer space into any place on Earth. World Wind uses satellite imagery and elevation data to allow users to experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there. Virtually visit anyplace in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps or along the African Sahara.
Unlike your desk globe World Wind can display thousands of placenames all over the world, from country capitals to villages in sparsely populated regions. You can see country borders, and in some cases intracountry borders such as US states.

World Wind has a full copy of the Blue Marble, a spectacular true-color image of the entire Earth. Put together from data of a variety of satellites such as Terra and Aqua, the Blue Marble can be seen in all its glory at 1 km per pixel resolution. Blue Marble Next Generation is streamed from the NASA servers at 0.5 km per pixel and in 12 versions, one for each month of year.

Tala

Mobile phones

Long time ago, thare was nothing called mobile phones known. In the late 40's, mobile phones started to appear and to evolve gradually.

At first, they were so huge and by time, started to get thinner and slimmer. At first, only wealthy businessmen were able to buy mobile phones, but as days are passing by, we see that even children have their own cellphones lately. Each showing off with the latest mobile model his parents has got for him on his last anniversary. We conclude from that, that mobile phones are becoming cheaper and easily accessible than they were before.

Tala

BLOGGING

Blogging, and through internet, made it possible to reach a worldwide audience with just a few IT skills - and it's all for free!
Many people find it easier to express in writing rather than orally; and I am one of those. Blogging opened this opportunity to express not just in writing, but also worlwide, since internet goes international.
So as my colleague Rawan said, that I sould be simply me in writing and while posting in the blog, being as simple as possible.
Tala

Second life

I was able to access Second life, but just for a little while, and then I got disconnected from the internet due to the bad internet connection we have in Lebanon; and since that time I was not able to access second life again.
During that little period of time in which I was able to access Second Life, I remembered the game "The Sims" for a while. I just wanted to access it for longer just to be able to figure out what I read about second life: an international gathering place to make friends, learn, and create. In Second Life, we create and customize a digital self called an "avatar," fly through an ever-changing 3D landscape, chat and socialize with others from all over the world, and build anything from skyscrapers to virtual vehicles. It’s more than a videogame and much more than an Internet chat program.
Tala

Cyberpunk and steampunk

The term cyberpunk has become pretty common these days, and more recently, the term steampunk has been applied to a similar genre which usually mixes futuristic worlds with older technologies.
The term 'steampunk' was originally a slightly sarcastic derivation from 'cyberpunk'. Cyberpunk is a flavor of science fiction that is typically set in the near-future. The movie Bladerunner and Neal Stephenson's book Snowcrash are quintessentially cyberpunk.
An example of cyberpunk movies: Bladerunner
and an example of cyberpunk books: Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
Tala

"I"

One of the most important advices to make your blog popular is to be simply "YOU".I think my blog was a place that i felt very comfortable in ,i expressed myself freely,i wrote my own opinions,i tried to post the way i see and understand things.Blogging constitutes to me an important challenge especially because i'm a person that found a difficulty in expressing in english.There is a saying i always repeat to my self to acheive things i want u to know,it's in french for St Augustin:"Aime et fais ce que tu veux"(love and do everything you want).Hope you guys liked my blog and my posts.Remember just BE YOU to succeed.Hope tomorrow we all get good grades.
RAWANE

STEAMPUNK

Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy.This genre was used in writting novels,making films between the 1980 and 1990.Actually steampunk is connected with cyberpunk and share a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion but steampunk tends to be less dystopian than cyberpunk.

Steampunk is inspired from the future and technology but applicated in an antiquated way.

For more information:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

C'est la "MODE"

Walking down the Lebanese street you can notice that a big number of Lebanese owns an IPHONE,some of them hold their Iphones in a neckless,some others in their hands,and the rest pretend making phone calls that actually might be with 111(alfa services' number) just to show that they own an iphone.For a while you forget your location,you think that you are in New York.Why Lebanese care that much about Iphones?For a foreigner ,the answer might be because they probably have a lot of business but for me as Lebanese i assure you that most of them buy the IPHONE to create a kind of prestige or ta stay "à la MODE".Iphone is the 1st apple internet enabled smartphone with a touch screen,an ipod,a 2.0 megapixel camera,an 8Gb storage and a safari web browsing(1.9 times faster than internet explorer).It costs about 600$ in Lebanon which is a high price in a country that is passing by its worst days and an interior security unstability.This prooves that those people are quite superficial and like to show off.

RAWANE