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WirelessWeek - October 11, 2007
- Gefen has started shipping a Wireless USB extender capable of transmitting data up to 100 feet. The company says the plug-and-play extender uses Wi-Fi with data rates up to 54 Mbps to connect computer peripherals.
- The Software Defined Radio (SDR) Forum has scheduled its annual technical conference and product exposition Nov. 5-9 in Denver. More than 130 papers from international organizations and companies will be presented during the conference. Topics include cognitive radio for public safety, mitigating the cost of information assurance, international collaboration for a cognitive radio test bed, SDR multi-standard base stations, beamforming for GPS applications, and using SDR for positioning and microsatellites.
- The mobile top level domain company, dotMobi, auctioned off about 100 "premium" mobile names in late September and early October. The most expensive name, hosting.mobi, went for $101,000. Bank.mobi sold for $51,501, and download.mobi cost $51,500. The auction was held by Sedo.com. Other premium name auctions are scheduled through November.
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