Software companies team up

Tazti, Jajah, Talkhouse and ElephantDrive have teamed up to introduce the LetMeBeMobile Software campaign, according to Marketwire.

This programme showcases each partner's capabilities, including Tazti's speech recognition software, which is offered as a free download for users.

LetMeBeMobile.com is targeted to users of notebooks, mobile Internet devices and ultra-mobile PCs. All the applications and services can also be used with desktop PCs.

Speaking at the international WiMax conference in Bangkok last week, the CEO of Australia's first WiMax operator, Buzz Broadband, said the technology was a "disaster" that "failed miserably", says itp.net.

Garth Freeman warned the technology was "mired in opportunistic hype", stating "non-existent" non-line-of-sight performance further than 2km from a base station and latencies of up to 1 000 milli-seconds when the technology was used indoors, a crippling problem for VOIP services.

With WiMax projects under development in Jordan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, regional confidence in the technology is clear.

While not all of Thorold will see a wireless Internet connection this year, the neighbourhood of Confederation Heights will, decided the Canadian Ontario council, states Thorold Edition.

The council opted to enter into a one-year agreement with ReliaClear Canada to pilot a wireless broadband network after mayor Henry D'Angela cast a tiebreaker five to four vote.

The pilot project is scaled back from what ReliaClear originally proposed last November - to have a city-wide network up and running by the end of 2008.