I laud the approach taken by Google in going Green to promote the usage of their Google Earth. Irony is Green was never any color on their logo. Now that a big name is working closely to promote places in US, number of visitors will definitely shoot […]

WWJ Editors, 31 May
eMobile, a subsidiary of eAccess Ltd., announced today it has successfully completed another round of equity financing with an additional 27.3 billion new capital. Following this transaction, the total paidin capital (capital shares and capital reserve) of eMobile will reach 143.2 billion yen (capital shares: 71.75 billion yen), and eAccess’ ownership in eMobile will be 46.2%. Together with the recent announcement of the project finance transaction of 220 billion yen, eMobile has secured a combined equity and debt capital of over 360 billion yen. The total capital raised should fully satisfy the funding requirement of eMobile’s business plan according to a company statement released today.

Pantech Wireless and Cingular Wireless today announced the introduction in North America of the Pant…

Somewhere in Missouri, a guy playing a movie with his in-dash dvd player drives by a nosy, curious woman. She simply must know what he is watching… She finally catches up with him at a stoplight. To her horror, she realizes he is watching porn. The meddlesome woman thinks that “perhaps there was a law […]

California Highway Patrol had the unfortunate task of recovering the bodies of two men who were out on a geocaching adventure this past Saturday. When the men did not arrive at one of the checkpoints, a search was conducted. Tire marks going off the side of a cliff led to the men’s bodies.
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A new type of autonomous vehicle navigation system, based on the brain’s hippocampus functions, has been successfully tested on an autonomous vehicle. The test vehicle, a Daimler-Chrysler Smart Car, has been able to navigate and traverse a large section of urban territory without getting disoriented or lost. The navigation system enables the vehicle to take […]

Wireless Week's Susan Rush reports today that Skyhook Wireless has expanded its Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) in the 100 largest cities in the U.S. Skyhook's goal is to cover 70 percent of the U.S. population by the end of…

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I first heard about the web 2.0 trademark issue on Friday evening. It was emailed to me by someone in Ireland – a country I am a frequent visitor to (more on that later). My first reaction was .. ‘Oh f***!’ I am about to release a book on mobile web 2.0 .. and if ‘web 2.0’ itself is service marked ..

But one look at the actual letters on blogosphere convinced me otherwise .. This applied only to conferences. I was not creating a conference. I thought nothing of it ..

Amazingly, “Only 1 percent of car navigation systems in use are equipped to handle digital broadcasting even though analog broadcasting will become obsolete in five years, it has emerged. Digital broadcasting for moving objects, referred to as “Wansegu” (one segment), began nearly two months ago, but few car navigation system owners are using the system, […]

Greece's REPORTER.GR notes today that Samsung Electronics has announced an agreement to team with Croatia's H1 to roll out WiBro service to the Croatian market. “Under the agreement, Samsung will provide H1 with the equipment and technologies for the…

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One tribute that seemed more significant than most as the baton passed last week and the retiring CEO of the Guardian Media Group, owner of The Observer and much else, hailed his newly designated successor. ‘This is a first class…

Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone is news reporting for the new millennium - a combination of backpack journalism and narrative story-telling by an award winning journalist.

In conjunction with Yahoo, In The Hot Zone, is covering every armed conflict* in the world within one year, and in doing so to provide a clear idea of the combatants, victims, causes, and costs of each of these struggles - and their global impact.

Kevin Sites uses the latest digital newsgathering technology — all of which fits in one backpack — to gather and transmit his stories. Additionally, should anything happen to his gear — damage, theft, loss — the Hot Zone team has an identical backup kit ready to be shipped to Kevin anywhere in the world.

“The Hertz Corporation has announced a family-friendly offer for the summer vacation season that promises to make family vacations even more entertaining: $30 off DVD-equipped vehicles from June 1 through September 15, 2006. Hertz’s summertime family promotion is applicable to any weekly rental of its range of DVD-equipped vehicles, including Ford Freestar Minivans, Expeditions, and […]

“Cognex Corporation, the world’s leading supplier of machine vision sensors and systems, announced today that it has entered the emerging market for machine vision sensors in vehicles. These highly-specialized sensors are installed in ordinary vehicles… ranging from long-haul trucks to passenger cars… where they automatically provide driver assistance by constantly analyzing the vehicle’s external environment […]

Bill Perry gives us a great news for Flash Lite’s ecosystem : Flash Lite 2.1 for BREW.

Flash Lite for BREW™ extends Flash to the growing BREW platform from Qualcomm®, creating an exciting ecosystem for selling and distributing Flash-based content to BREW-enabled handsets. Using the latest Flash development tools, developers can create content and applications that are offered over-the-air to consumers on handsets in North America.