Wednesday, March 20, 2002
Interesting wireless technology for your Pocket PC
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "SOFTWARE" @ 07:25 AM
http://www.icomera.com
Icomera is working on some interesting wireless technology. At CeBIT I saw a demo using a Windows XP laptop, a bluetooth/GPRS telephone, a 3870 iPAQ with an 802.11b Intel Pro CF-I card and an 802.11 wireless access point. The software runs on Pocket PC's, other X-Scale embedded devices and Windows based system, designed with Itanium (64bit Windows XP/Windows 2002 .NET servers) in mind.
It will almost seamlessly switch your device from 802.11 to a BlueTooth/GPRS/GSM network depending on signal strength and network availability, taking into account the bandwidth and cost per minute of the network. Very cool. You can be in the middle of a data session in your office using 802.11b, walk outside and get in your car while the data is still downloading, and the software will automagically hand off the datastream to your BlueTooth GPRS phone and you head down the road, and then pick it back up on the 802.11b network via VPN as you pull up to StarBucks for a cup of java.
Icomera is working on some interesting wireless technology. At CeBIT I saw a demo using a Windows XP laptop, a bluetooth/GPRS telephone, a 3870 iPAQ with an 802.11b Intel Pro CF-I card and an 802.11 wireless access point. The software runs on Pocket PC's, other X-Scale embedded devices and Windows based system, designed with Itanium (64bit Windows XP/Windows 2002 .NET servers) in mind.
It will almost seamlessly switch your device from 802.11 to a BlueTooth/GPRS/GSM network depending on signal strength and network availability, taking into account the bandwidth and cost per minute of the network. Very cool. You can be in the middle of a data session in your office using 802.11b, walk outside and get in your car while the data is still downloading, and the software will automagically hand off the datastream to your BlueTooth GPRS phone and you head down the road, and then pick it back up on the 802.11b network via VPN as you pull up to StarBucks for a cup of java.
