Mark Hachman

Having failed to secure enough votes for standards approval, the debate over which proposal to back for the next-generation 802.11n standard moves back to square one. At an IEEE meeting in Cairns, Australia, the TGn Sync proposal failed to win the 75 percent approval that it required to become the draft 802.11n standard. According to […]

Intel Corp. plans to differentiate its business platforms by integrating the ability to make cell phone calls within the next two years, and is researching VOIP hardware integration, executives said. The move comes as Intel looks to expand its platforms—the combination of processor, chip set, wireless components and other peripherals—into separate road maps for both […]

Members of two major ultrawideband camps applauded a proposal Wednesday to make the Bluetooth standard interoperable with future UWB products, the first step toward making Bluetooth a more open command protocol. Members of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group did not give their blessing to either the Freescale-led DS-UWB standard or the Intel-led MBOA specification. Instead, […]

Samsung Semiconductor executives said Monday that the concept of a hard drive incorporating flash memory will be a reality, and come to market in mid-2006. The drive, first talked about at last years Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle, will be manufactured by Samsungs hard disk drive division, according to the company. The drive […]

Will hardware vendors have 64-bit device drivers in place to support Microsofts 64-bit Windows release? The answer is a definite maybe. While a significant number of PC components will function under Microsofts new 64-bit Windows operating system, more specialized devices are being put on the back burner. According to Greg Sullivan, lead product manager for […]

LONDON — VOIP provider Vonage has identified a $100 price point as the target for its upcoming VOIP handset, an executive said Wednesday. Vonage, which is in U.S. beta trials with handsets from VTech and UTStarcom, plans to bring to bring the handsets out in the U.S. at the end of the summer or early […]

IBM and Sanyo said Monday that the two companies had developed a prototype external fuel-cell booster that has helped power a current ThinkPad for a total of sixteen hours. Although the collaboration wont produce a viable product for some time, IBM executives touted the prototype as an example of the fact that the fuel-cell technology […]

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Seagate chimed in Monday on perpendicular recording, a next-generation means of improving the areal density of hard disk drives. Hitachi GST is expected to release the first of the new drives later this year, and a spokesman for Seagate said over the weekend that his company plans to follow suit. […]

LONDON—WiMax backers continue to seed early versions of the technology among prospective customers, hoping that it will spark demand when services roll out in early 2006. In the latest example, Intel Corp. has provided the National Museum of Science and Industry here an early WiMax deployment for its reserve warehouses, which sit on an abandoned […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers working group dedicated to the next-generation 802.11n standard has settled on a single proposal, TGn Sync, members said late Thursday night. The proposal, which is backed by Atheros Communications Corp., Intel Corp., Sony Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Toshiba Corp., and others, must now garner a 75 percent […]