- Net neutrality is a go except for the wireless companies. Huh?
- Microsoft to re-enter the tablet market and perhaps do a Zune phone too!
- Femtocell being tested by AT&T.
- Sony introduces weird motion sensor earbud.
- Comscore and Omniture to join forces.
- Dell buys Perot systems.
- Cisco to get into the security cam business.
- USB 3.0 seems to be stuck in the mud.
- Cal to regulate your TV viewing.
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Not a dime to AT&T. Their technology is so bad why would anyone agree to a femtocell AND PAY FOR IT!
Having the player pause your music when you remove your earbuds (which I hate) or they fall out is a pretty good idea IMHO.
AT$T has a shitty network and they want you to pay, yet again, for the bandwidth you already pay for to compensate for their bullshit, fucked up network. Did I mention their network is shitty?
For John,
Femto is a measurement prefix, as in femto watt or 1×10 -15 power. extermely low power cell repeater.
Yeah, AT&T wireless coverage is laughably bad outside of big cities. Then on their “unlimited” data plan they charge $500 per gig over 5 gig a month. But they get a pass from silicon vally bloggers as silicon vally becomes the silicon oxide belt. Lol
Normal cell towers are called a “Macro” network.
Smaller cell sites are called “Micro” cells and are usually inside buildings.
Even smaller cell sites that fill in holes in building coverage are called “Pico” cells.
Now they have consumer devices and they are called “Femto” cells because they are even smaller.
Blame it on the marketing departments that don’t know the meaning of words.
A Femtocell, is the opposite of a Maculocell.
quantifiers
quantifiers In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used
in the SI (Syste`me International) conventions for scientific
measurement have dual uses. With units of time or things that come in
powers of 10, such as money, they retain their usual meanings of
multiplication by powers of 1000 = 10^3. But when used with bytes or
other things that naturally come in powers of 2, they usually denote
multiplication by powers of 1024 = 2^(10).
Here are the SI magnifying prefixes, along with the corresponding
binary interpretations in common use:
prefix decimal binary
kilo- 1000^1 1024^1 = 2^10 = 1,024
mega- 1000^2 1024^2 = 2^20 = 1,048,576
giga- 1000^3 1024^3 = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824
tera- 1000^4 1024^4 = 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776
peta- 1000^5 1024^5 = 2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624
exa- 1000^6 1024^6 = 2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976
zetta- 1000^7 1024^7 = 2^70 = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424
yotta- 1000^8 1024^8 = 2^80 = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176
Here are the SI fractional prefixes:
_prefix decimal jargon usage_
milli- 1000^-1 (seldom used in jargon)
micro- 1000^-2 small or human-scale (see micro-)
nano- 1000^-3 even smaller (see nano-)
pico- 1000^-4 even smaller yet (see pico-)
femto- 1000^-5 (not used in jargon—yet)
atto- 1000^-6 (not used in jargon—yet)
zepto- 1000^-7 (not used in jargon—yet)
yocto- 1000^-8 (not used in jargon—yet)
The prefixes zetta-, yotta-, zepto-, and yocto- have been included in
these tables purely for completeness and giggle value; they were adopted
in 1990 by the `19th Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures’. The
binary peta- and exa- loadings, though well established, are not in
jargon use either — yet. The prefix milli-, denoting multiplication by
1/1000, has always been rare in jargon (there is, however, a standard
joke about the `millihelen’ — notionally, the amount of beauty required
to launch one ship). See the entries on micro-, pico-, and nano-
for more information on connotative jargon use of these terms. `Femto’
and `atto’ (which, interestingly, derive not from Greek but from Danish)
have not yet acquired jargon loadings, though it is easy to predict what
those will be once computing technology enters the required realms of
magnitude (however, see attoparsec).
#8 Thanks for clearing that right up.
AT&T’s femtocell is hardly new technology. T-Mobile has had “hot spot at home” for years. Here in rural Maine, all the carriers’ networks suck. So I use T-Mobile hotspot & my blackberry connects via wifi