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No bidder put up the $1.3 billion minimum for the D Block in the recently completed 700 MHz auction. Reps. Joe Barton (R-Texas), ranking minority member of the House Commerce Committee, Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) have serious

Touch Wall Posted by Sam Churchill on May 14th, 2008 Microsoft’s annual CEO Summit today is bringing 115 CEOs from 26 countries, to Redmond. Bill Gates will demo a new prototype touch computing device called

. As with previous auctions, the spectrum is being made available on a service-neutral basis - which means bidders are not required to restrict their use of the spectrum to a particular technology or service. Potential WiMAX providers worry that cellular operators will simply outbid them in the UK, virtually excluding Mobile WiMAX operators from the 2.6 GHz band, leaving them with less ideal 3.5 GHz frequencies. But director of Intel Capital EMEA, Ashish

Echostar could feed 700 MHz terrestrial mobile television transmitters from their DBS fleet. The 700 Mhz band would give them a range advantage over ICO (at 2100 Mhz), but provides less capacity (6 MHz vrs 20 MHz). ICO is targeting vehicles for medium resolution back seat television while Echostar may be targeting smaller handheld devices such as cell phones. Probably not good news for Qualcomm’s MediaFLO. Of course Echostar is just testing…

locations, backhaul transport via microwave the Pittock Building and Internet transit. These expenses are approximately $15,000 per month. The network uses Microsoft SideGuide, “the best advertising platform we have for Wi-Fi revenue generation”. Users must download and install Microsoft’s SideGuide to continue accessing the free WiFi service. If you’ve got a PC. DailyWireless.org has a nice roundup of US city-wide WiFi projects, covering deployment of smart metering and other municipal services on municipal wireless

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The FCC voted to ask for public comments (pdf) on how to re-auction the 10MHz piece of spectrum. Commissioners wanted to pair it with another 10MHz controlled by public-safety agencies to build a … Read Original Post Here

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Gates will demo a new prototype touch computing device called TouchWall and Plex, which envisions a new “Minority Report” type touch screen. Tech Crunch has more details on the interactive, rear-screen white board. Yes, … Read Original Post Here

All of this was driven by concern about 9/11 communication snafus, when police and fire departments in NYC couldn’t talk to one another.  (Talk: narrowband, push-to-talk technologies.) Since 9/11, both NYC and the DC area have solved their “interoperability” problems.  Now (or soon) their public safety officers will be able to communicate easily. For some time now, there’s been a push for nationwide highspeed