Sunday, January 14, 2007

University of Arizona Selects Smartvue(R) 802.11N Draft Wireless H ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Smartvue(R) Corporation, an award-winning technology leader in the IP video industry, announced that the University of Arizona had selected the Smartvue S4 IP video surveillance solution for protecting valuable property and the safety of students. Smartvue S4 is part of the Smartvue family of plug and play wireless IP video surveillance solutions which offer simple installation, superior imaging quality, and advanced security as well as video analytics for visual business intelligence. "I was tasked to find a high quality IP video surveillance for a complex installation that would have required special wiring and included difficult lighting conditions with both bright natural light and dark interiors," said Bryan Watmore, Manager of Information Technology at the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.

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Will customers bite on new iPhone?

Although personal computers and digital music players have largely become commoditized products, Apple Inc. has been able to use innovation and design to maintain premium price levels in these markets. That ability may come under the ultimate test, as the Cupertino, Calif.-based company prepares to enter the wireless device market later this year. On Tuesday, Apple lifted the wraps on its much-anticipated iPhone -- a combination wireless phone, Web browser and digital music player. The device is set to go on sale in North America in June through an exclusive relationship with Cingular. While the iPhone has many head-turning features -- such as a touch-screen display -- its price is also popping eyeballs. The cheapest model, with 4 gigabytes of memory, will sell for $499.

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Wireless ways to the web

Las Vegas: Only one Indian information technology player was officially listed: Wipro Technologies. That might have some thing to do with the high cost of participation: $35 per square foot of booth space — and a typical four-day spend around $500,000 even for a modest presence. The Bangalore-based IT leader exhibited its prowess in the farthest reach of today's broadband wireless technology known as Ultra Wide Band (UWB) and demonstrated the intellectual property for dual-role devices created at its design services operation, Wipro-NewLogic. It also showcased a variety of portable digital audio and video devices as well as know-how for digital Television broadcasting. Wipro may have seemed to be the lone Indian flag waver at CES — but if one probed deep enough, `desi' technology was evident `under the hood' of many devices and gadgets that bore the brand names of their international makers: The `Hava' play your TV anywhere devices marketed by Pinnacle and others, were actually crafted in Noida.The technology called Rainbow, created by the Bangalore-based iWave Systems, was driving many of the hand held `smart' gadget applications being displayed by the U.S.-based semiconductor leader Xilinx to highlight its own product line.

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