Mobile WiMAX: ’The possibilities are endless’

"Video conferencing from the swimming gala" lol.

How about audio uploads while on the potty,
 
http://laptops-and-computers.blogspot.com/2008/06/intel-tech-chief-reveals-secret-origins.html

Here's something you didn't know about the MacBook Air's infamously tiny CPU: The shrinkage tech behind it had been collecting dust on Intel's shelf for a couple years since no PC manufacturer was interested in it. When Apple put in the call for a dwarven chip, Intel originally thought what Apple wanted was years away on their roadmap before re-discovering the concept—a year later they had it refreshed and ready to go. Which is the usual breakneck speed Apple moves, Intel's CTO Justin Rattner told Fortune. He also dished that they're collaborating on more breakthrough stuff that's "equally aggressive." Besides chatting about how Intel and Apple are now BFF and love working together, delivering super cool crazy tech to the masses, he said something fairly odd about WiMax, considering how much money they've been pumping into it. Basically, he said Intel pushed WiMax hard because at the time it was the best and easiest way to deliver broadband everywhere. Now there are alternatives, and their view is that "if WiMax succeeds, we'll have the bandwidth. If others succeed, we'll have the bandwidth." Does that smell like a vote of confidence to you, or ambivalence, sprinkled with hints of regret? [Fortune]
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MichaelJohn said:
I thought Mybroadband said that Wimax was dead?
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Where did Mybroadband say this? Link please?
MichaelJohn said:
Stop protituting yourselves and give us unbias opinions
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Read the relevant threads on press releases. :rolleyes:

When reading any press release it's always a good idea to see who says what, and especially what they don't say. As rpm indicated recently, press releases tend to be factual, but that does not mean they're not biased towards the point the author is trying to make.

In this case, the author (a WiMax vendor) is telling us about the advantages of mobile data and what one can do with the technology. He obviously is not going to say it's all already being done with UMTS, as rolled out by MTN and Vodacom. ;)

The biggest problem WiMax faces today is how to make up for the lost time in bickering about standards. This kept the technology back so much that even Intel (according to Peter's post above) is not putting in the effort they used to in pushing WiMax.
 
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