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...helping the next generation of broadband and portable communications conquer the world. Along with other upstarts like Britain's Frontier Silicon, Israel's Wisair and Cornice from the U.S., ArrayComm is working to improve technologies already in use - like wi-fi and 3G - in order to give people wire-free access to e-mail and the Internet, and to provide them with cheap phone calls in the U.S., Europe, China and Korea, among other places. Between the four of them, they're pretty much covering the globe...
...Wisair. The company's founder and chief executive David Yaish touts a variety of applications for his chips; a phone outfitted with UWB could download songs and videos from the same living-room server. Digital and video cameras outfitted with UWB could transfer their contents to home PCs, sans wire. Not only does UWB handle larger files faster than wi-fi, but it consumes much less power, says Yaish. Result: longer battery life on a UWB device than on a wi-fi gadget...
...below Quincy House, within the confines of chicken-wire and concrete, among amplifiers and pipes, approximately a dozen people convened to witness yet another Quincy Cage show...
...Leatherman 830040 New Wave Multi-Tool with nylon sheath, $70, packs pliers, wire cutters, bit drivers, a saw, a serrated knife and more into one compact unit. At amazon.com
...easy to see why so many troops are succumbing to stress. Every trip "outside the wire" brings the possibility of attack from any direction, from people who look like everyday citizens and from everyday objects--cars, oilcans, dead animals, even human beings--refashioned into deadly bombs. "It's relentless," says a Marine who was deployed in al-Anbar province, which includes violent hotbeds like Ramadi and Fallujah. "From the moment you arrive until the moment you leave, you're in danger." The life-threatening character of the daily job steadily erodes an individual's psychological immune system...