Sunday, December 31, 2006

Bumbrey Selected as Verizon Wireless "Performer of the Month"

ELON, N.C. -- For the past three seasons, Elon University Athletics and Verizon Wireless have teamed up to name a Verizon Wireless “Performer of the Month" each month. The recipient of this award for December is junior women's basketball player Tierra Bumbrey (Stafford, Va.). This is the second time in her career that Bumbrey has received this award. During Elon's 3-3 month, Bumbrey averaged 8.3 points, 4.5 assists (team-best 27 total) and 2.7 steals (team-leading 16 total) per game. In a victory at Campbell, Bumbrey passed for a career-best eight assists and added seven points and three steals. Also during the month, Bumbrey led the Phoenix to victories over MAAC-favorite Iona (eight points, five assists) and Winston-Salem State (12 points, five steals). She shot 48.8 percent from the field, connecting on 21 of 43 shots in six games and pulled in seven rebounds.

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New Wireless Solutions from Gefen

Gefen Inc., a company that specializes in manufacturing add-on and plug-and-play products, announced on Wednesday that it will be debuting a series of new wireless solutions at this year's CES. The company says it is developing four different wireless extenders—one for USB devices, one for component audio, one for HDMI, and one for VGA devices—that will allow for cable-free connectivity between computers, cameras, televisions, displays and other peripherals. .

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Besides enhancing throughput, the new wireless standards will help ...

Till now the 802.11 (a/b/g) wireless technology has mostly been facilitating email and Internet access. That would change once products based on new wireless standards -802.11n, 802.11e and 802.11r - arrive in the market. Moving Beyond Data With enhanced speeds and more security, these upcoming standards would not only allow a host of applications, including voice and video, to be put on wireless but also enhance mobility as in the case of 802.11r. "802.11r would permit connectivity aboard vehicles in motion, with fast handoffs from one base station to another managed in a seamless manner. Handoffs are supported under the "a", "b" and "g" implementations, but only for data. The handover delay is too long to support applications like voice and video," points out Shridhar Kadam, vice president, Product Engineering, D-Link.

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