uwb in news
Ofcom ushers in licence-free UWB
News Ultrawideband (UWB) enables devices, such as PCs and DVD players, to communicate without wires at high speed and low cost over short distances, promising the eventual elimination of cabled interconnection for... [13 Aug 2007]
UWB goes legit
News The European Commission has given the official thumbs-up to Ultrawideband (UWB), the high bandwidth, short distance tech the EC believes will find its way onto all sorts of hardware in the coming years. [22 Feb 2007]
Ultrawideband gets EC approval
News Ofcom's chief technologist, Professor William Webb, said on Friday that the UK regulator was "delighted" at the approval of ultrawideband (UWB). He pointed out that if the RSC approves a document "it automatically... [08 Dec 2006]
2016: The end of the mobile as we know it?
News Instead, HP predicts, the mobile will become just one of a number of gadgets in your personal area network that will get its connectivity via your watch, or a magic box in your pocket, probably using Ultrawideband (UWB)... [09 Oct 2006]
Bluetooth to be boosted by marriage to UWB
News The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has said it will combine WiMedia Alliance's ultra-wideband (UWB) with its next-generation Bluetooth wireless technology. The Bluetooth SIG is targeting to release new... [31 Mar 2006]
Wireless standards are confusing the market
News The proliferation of competing wireless standards risks confusing technology users and preventing such technologies from gaining mass-market acceptance, according to the Ultrawideband (UWB) Forum. Speaking as part of a... [27 May 2005]
Wireless confusion set to be tamed
News Companies working on Bluetooth and Ultrawideband (UWB) wireless networking technologies are combining their efforts, prompting hopes that the industry will become more streamlined. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is... [04 May 2005]
Bluetooth 'on its way out'?
News According to analysts, ultrawideband (UWB) and NFC (near-field communications), as used on the London Underground's Oyster cards, could come out on top, with Bluetooth heading the way of the dodo. Unlike Bluetooth and... [21 Apr 2005]
Intel lays its cash on the digital home
News Three of the investees have different bits of the ultrawideband (UWB) market that will allow people to move digital content - music, hi-definition video and so on - from one room to another or just outside the door. [22 Apr 2004]
Want ultrawideband? Move to America
News He showed USB 2.0 video being carried over UWB prototype equipment, the first time this has been publicly demonstrated, connected with unmodified laptops and a camcorder. Intel predicts that UWB will... [19 Feb 2004]
Motorola buys mega-fast wireless chip firm
News Motorola has for some time supported XtremeSpectrum's ultrawideband (UWB) technology, a rival to Bluetooth that is capable of creating wireless connections that transfer data at rates as high as 100MB per second. [11 Nov 2003]
Ultra wideband sees Intel and TI get friendly
News Each of the two silicon powerhouses once planned to provide its own proposed ultra wideband (UWB) standards to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). We are pursuing a policy of trying to take the... [16 Jul 2003]
Intel offers a glimpse of the future
News The FCC recently gave the industry the go-ahead to develop UWB, which Intel hopes to use as the basis of very high-speed, low range wireless system to replace USB cables. Intel's CTO Pat Gelsinger today announced Radio... [01 Mar 2002]