Mobile tech is the future

The future of the Internet lies in highly-mobile technology, according to head of Intel Paul Otellini, who was speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, says Broadband-Finder.

Otellini spoke about Intel's backing of wireless technology network WiMax, explaining that "instead of going to the Internet, the Internet comes to us".

The introduction of real-time technology was also highlighted, with the technology expert using the example of a traveller to show how data could be pulled from the Internet in real-time.

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Sprint Nextel and its hardware partners today sought to convince a small audience that its WiMax plans are on track, despite the recent departure of Sprint's CEO and the dissolution of its partnership with Clearwire, says PCWorld.

"We are exactly where we said we'd be," said Barry West, Sprint Nextel's CTO and president of the company's Xohm WiMax business unit. Sprint is in the process of soft launching in Chicago and Baltimore, he said.

Executives from Nokia and Samsung said they both expect to have user devices ready for the second quarter launch. In addition, Motorola said it is working on a device that will operate over Sprint's EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimised) cellular network, WiFi and WiMax.

Sony unveiled its new close proximity wireless transfer technology called TransferJet. This will allow wireless devices of Sony to transfer data to or from each other at a high speed, provided they are very close to each other, says Xbit Laboratories.

TransferJet's physical layer transmission rate is 560Mbps, and even allowing for error corrections and protocol overheads, the effective physical layer transmission rate is 375Mbps. TransferJet is also capable of selecting the appropriate data transmission rate according to the wireless environment.

However, with open-standard wireless USB incoming, the future of TransferJet is not completely clear, and the communication distance of Sony's TransferJet is just three centimetres.