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Excellent. Broadcom announces a single chip 802.11b WiFi solution.
The AirForce One BCM4317 integrates the broadband and MAC components customarily offered on one chip with the radio and power amplification units built into current WLAN adaptors on a second chip.Power reduction is reported (by Broadcom) to be up to 97%! If true (or even mostly true) this will be huge. Presently WiFi is too power hungry for most portable devices. Also this will hopefully crush Bluetooth, as the only reason for that technology was the power savings over 802.11x.
Come on WiFi equipped mobile phone / PDA / camera uber convergence device! You can do it!
I put up a page for questions since I sometimes get asked things in random comment threads here that might do better as threads of their own. And also, you know, since I am like a world expert in several areas and need to share this abundant knowledge with the world.
If I know how to work my own software anyone (signed in or not) should be able to post.
Website being served from a MacPlus! I had the model right before that one (the one pictured actually, which isn't a Plus, but looks basically the same.)
And check out the picture of Jobs at the top of the images page. Who wouldn't buy a computer from that young man? (thanks, mimi)
Apple updated iPods and iMacs today, bumping the 15 and 30 gig iPods to 20 and 40 gigs (10 gig remains the entry level,) and bumping the iMac to 1 ghz (w/ 15 inch flat panel, $1299) and 1.25 ghz.(w/ 17 inch flat panel, $1799.)
Updated my links a bit to better reflect my actual surfing habits.
Arnold Kling with some reality for the video on demand crowd:
But I am skeptical of any study that forecasts a big market for movie video-on-demand. That forecast has been made wrongly for years, and it continues to defy the fact that hard disk space is increasing faster than bandwidth.
I think that the correct answer to the question, "When will video on demand become mainstream?" is "Never." By the time we have the bandwidth to make it work, we will have hard drives capable of storing all the movies ever made.