Topic: Manufacturers and Distributors
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from slate.msn.com
By Paul Boutin*
Posted Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 1:59 PM PT
On the Top 10 list for misquoted statements, Moore's Law comes in a close second, right behind "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well." So many differing definitions abound for Gordon Moore's edict that two years ago, in a fit of desperation, I e-mailed the Intel co-founder and asked for the original. To my surprise, he replied. "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year" was his statement in a 1965 issue of Electronics magazine.
By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 5, 2003, 9:00 PM PT
Wireless networking company Linksys on Wednesday released a PC card that supports two nascent Wi-Fi standards.
Linksys's Wireless Dual Band A+G Wireless PC Card for notebook computers supports not only 802.11b--the prevailing IEEE standard for wireless networking--but its newer cousins 802.11a, which sacrifices bandwidth for range, and 802.11g, which is supposed to be backward-compatible with 802.11b.
With a goal of coming up with a way for owners of wireless devices to use them hassle-free in public wireless-area networks, Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto and Southlake, Texas-based Transat Technologies Inc. are combining technologies, the firms said Friday.
BusinessJournal 8 Feb 2003 (GMT)
By Wylie Wong and Richard Shim
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 7, 2003, 4:00 AM PT
As fast wireless technologies hit store shelves, networking companies that survived an earlier standards war in the booming market are determined to prevent another one from erupting.
(From Wireless NewsFactor, 30 Jan 2003)
IBM has broken new ground with the launch of its first laptop featuring dual-band Wi-Fi connectivity, offering connections using both 802.11a and 802.11b wireless local area networks (WLANs). With the ThinkPad R40, Big Blue is banking on increased acceptance of the relatively new 802.11a technology, primarily among businesses.