Posted on 30 July 2011 by admin
The IEEE standards body that oversees the development of WiFi technology announced today a next-generation WiFi 802.22 technology designed to facilitate wireless data transfer up to 22Mbps over great distances up to 60 miles, or a hundred kilometers. The interesting thing is, the new technology is utilizing television bands without interfering with reception of existing TV broadcast stations:
The technology will be great in rural areas and developing countries with vacant TV channels, IEEE says. In our view, this could also knock out any rationale for the much talked-about AT&T/T-Mobile merger. For example, why use pricey cellular data if your phone is within the range of a 802.22 hotspot? Apple is one of the leading backers of WiFi and has long ago incorporated wireless capabilities to all their products. As of recently, Apple ships its Macs with souped up WiFi capable of hitting 450Mbps over wireless networks, even though they aren’t advertising this as a feature.
Via: 9 to 5 Mac
Posted on 03 July 2011 by admin
SAN FRANCISCO — The parent company of GoDaddy.com, a top registrar of Internet domain names, has been sold to a group of private investment firms for $2.25 billion, a person familiar with the transaction told The Associated Press.
Go Daddy Group Inc.’s sale to KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures comes as the company expects to top $1.1 billion in revenue this year because expanding Internet use has fueled the creation of more websites and the “domains” needed to help find them. Go Daddy announced the sale late Friday. A person close to the transaction, who asked to remain anonymous because of not being authorized to speak publicly, told the AP the sale price.
A fact sheet accompanying the release indicated that Go Daddy’s revenue has grown by more than 20 percent in each of the past several years.
The Go Daddy Group Inc. was founded in 1997 by Bob Parsons, who continues to serve as its CEO. The company, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., manages more than 48 million domain names, and sells other Internet-related technologies.
via: huffpost
Posted on 20 June 2011 by admin
It’s not as if your dot-com is being put out to pasture. But Monday’s news that the Internet’s address system is expanding to include corporate brand names, as well as other words in other languages, promises what could be the biggest shake-up since the online name game started 26 years ago.
Just imagine: instead of looking for up show times at foxnews.com, you may be able to head straight for fairandbalanced.foxnews. Or get a building permit at build.sanjose instead of having to drag yourself all the way over to http://www.sanjoseca.gov/building/.
The decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the group charged with maintaining order and civility in the sometimes Wild West of the Internet, carries a hefty price tag: After coughing up a $185,000 fee, applicants can petition next year to replace or augment their “.com” and “.net” with Web-address suffixes using nearly any word in any language, including Arabic and Chinese. If approved, an annual $25,000 fee would kick in as well. According to ICANN’s board, which approved the measure at a meeting in Singapore after chewing on the issue for several years, only “established public or private organizations” need apply.
“This is the start of a whole new phase for the Internet,” said Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of ICANN’s board of directors. “Unless there is a good reason to restrain it, innovation should be allowed to run free.”
via: mercury news
