Dan Farber

Artemis Networks taps PureWave for pWave base stations

Last week Artemis Networks unveiled a technology that company founder Steve Perlman said would revolutionize the wireless industry. So far the world has seen a brief demonstration of the technology, called pCell, which promises to overcome the dropped calls, congestion and slow data rates of traditional wireless networks. It creates a “personal cell” around the …

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Is pCell the Holy Grail of wireless networking?

Serial entrepreneur Steve Perlman claims that his new patented technology can create the wireless network of our dreams. His invention, pCell, theoretically delivers on the long-sought dream of ubiquitous, fast Internet, with the reliability and consistency previously only achievable through a wired connection. pCell is “effectively mobile fiber,” he announced in a press release for his new company, Artemis Networks. …

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Metamoji’s Share Anytime redefines real

Note Anytime for iOS, Android, and Windows 8, which became the No. 1 app in Japan and several other countries when Metamoji first released it in September 2012, is upping its game with Share Anytime. Like Note Anytime, Share Anytime offers free-form note-taking, document annotation, whiteboarding, and presentation; however, the app now can support up to 100 authors working in …

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Spectre of an iWatch looms over the smartwatch market

SAN FRANCISCO — The wearable world awaits, some people with excitement and others with anxiety, for the long-rumored iWatch. Apple fans are looking forward, most likely in 2014, to a breakthrough product that decorates their wrists and seamlessly integrates with the iPhone and App Store. The anxiety is most persistent among those who are building wearable products that will eventually …

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Dryft could make tablet typing tolerable

Typing on the tablet can be almost as laborious as typing on the phone. Randy Marsden invented Swype to make smartphones easier for touch typists and is now looking to reinvent the tablet-typing experience with Dryft. Dryft uses a tablet touch sensor and accelerometer to dynamically find your fingers as you type and tries to keep them under it. It …

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Friction in the gears of Samsung’s Galaxy Gear

Enter the Galaxy Gear. Samsung is raising the bar for what a smartwatch can be, aiming for functionality closer to that of Google Glass. You can answer phone calls, control Galaxy Gear with your voice, take pictures, and share content — just like you would on a smartphone, but you don’t have to pull it out of your pocket. Galaxy …

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Broadcom gears up for the wearable revolution

“We have to make our products consumable by wearable makers, so that someone making a dog health monitor who wants to buy in the thousands could purchase chips and get support,” McGregor said. Broadcom is looking at working through distribution partners and offering more Web support for the small players, as well as establishing closer relationships with module makers who …

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T-Mobile CEO John Legere took to Twitter late Friday to update customers about a network service issue that had been vexing some subscribers. Given that he has fewer than 9,000 followers, the majority of the affected T-Mobile subscribers probably didn’t catch his tweets, but he heard their complaints. Sorry. There is/was a network issue in a few areas. I am …

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Note Anytime gives electronic ink new life

In the late 1980s and early 1990s tablets and electronic ink were going to be the next big thing, supplanting the keyboard with a stylus for the natural act of writing and drawing with your hands. There was the GridPad, Momenta Pentop, Apple Newton, EO Personal Communicator, Go Corp. PenPoint OS and the original IBM Thinkpad. They all rather quickly …

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Why the Moto X is a Google moon shot

For the most part, the Moto X is just another smartphone. In fact, it’s been dubbed a midrange phone that won’t excite hardcore Android fans. But it’s not meant to appeal to the minority. It’s designed to attract the masses like an Apple device, with fit and finish (such as customizing the look with custom hues and patterns) and a …

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