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arstechnica.com - 11/3/2008
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Ultrawideband was supposed to let us cut the cable and use its high-speed, short-range radio waves to attach hard drives, printers, keyboards, and camcorders. It was always next year's technology, and may turn into last year's failure with news that another major UWB player has closed up shop. ...
macnn.com - 11/5/2008
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macnn.com —
SAN JOSE, Calif. Intel Corp. quietly ended
a five-year research effort in ultrawideband. The news is...
another blow for the emerging technology for which support is tightening in the face of an expected recession. UWB startup WiQuest Communications ...
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EETimes.com - Intel cancels ultrawideband design effort
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UWB Retreats?
Wi-Fi Networking News —
... always a shakeout, but I'm surprised how long UWB has been under development without any deep niche adoption. Early flavors of Wi-Fi were in devices sometimes years before standards were ratified. Airgo, for instance, had its MIMO flavor of 802.11 on the market long before competitors, and it was acquired by Qualcomm (disappearing from sight, but not unsuccessfully in terms of the investors' interest or in spreading MIMO as an essentially mandatory element of 802.11n).
I wrote more about this at Ars Technica along with the historical background.
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