WiMedia Alliance calls it a day
News The WiMedia Alliance, an industry group set up to develop and promote ultrawideband technology, has announced it will shut its doors. Many members of these groups cross over to the WiMedia Alliance, as both Wireless USB (WUSB) and the upcoming...
[March 17, 2009, 16:01]
Bluetooth gets wider with WiMedia
News The industry body behind Bluetooth is to adopt the WiMedia Ultrawideband (UWB) technology for the next generation of its standard. WiMedia is also the UWB system behind Wireless USB. This will link handsets, mobile media players and other devices...
[March 29, 2006, 17:20]
UWB backers confident despite company closures
News The WiMedia Alliance is an industry body dedicated to promoting the development of ultrawideband (UWB), which is the basis for emerging technologies such as wireless USB (WUSB), a proposed wireless successor to USB.
[November 6, 2008, 11:04]
Ultrawideband partners merge
News Two of the major groups in ultrawideband development, the WiMedia Alliance and the Multiband OFDM Alliance (MBOA), have merged. The two industry bodies have been closely aligned for some time: WiMedia previously endorsed MBOA’s proposed UWB...
[March 3, 2005, 16:00]
Ultrawideband in 2005, but only in America
News The radio side is being standardised by the MBOA, while an industry group called WiMedia is setting up to define how many different services -- including USB 2.0, FireWire, Internet Protocol and others -- can share the same UWB hardware, by...
[February 19, 2004, 8:45]
Bluetooth 3.0 released without ultrawideband
News UWB has had a difficult time of late — several key companies have folded within the last six months and, in March, the WiMedia Alliance, the industry body backing UWB, also called it a day. The WiMedia Alliance said at the time that it was passing...
[April 22, 2009, 14:20]
Ultrawideband gets on the television
News It is supported by a consortium of some 40 companies and is in direct competition with the Intel, Texas Instruments, Nokia and Philips-led WiMedia standard, which has around 170 companies behind it. Some of the first Ultrawideband (UWB) enabled...
[June 22, 2005, 16:05]
Ultrawideband kicks off at CES
News Freescale's major rivals for UWB, the WiMedia Alliance backed by The warring camps in the Ultrawideband (UWB) wireless market made their customary appearance at the CES show in Vegas on Wednesday — but only one announced any products.
[January 4, 2006, 16:25]
CSR benefits from Bluetooth future
News Last week, CSR announced that it now supports the WiMedia Alliance form of Ultrawideband (UWB) wireless and will move Bluetooth profiles over to the new standard. UK chipmaker CSR announced on Tuesday it enjoyed a bumper 2005, and was dominating...
[March 1, 2006, 16:35]
Ultrawideband legal in EU within six months
News The technology, which operates at ranges of up to 10 metres and was developed by companies such as Intel, Texas Instruments, HP and Nokia, is most widely marketed in the US by the WiMedia Alliance. Ultrawideband is to be legalised across Europe...
[December 8, 2006, 12:45]
WiGig spec promises 7Gbps wireless streaming
News However, UWB's backing organisation, the WiMedia Alliance, folded in March, leaving the new Bluetooth standard with a maximum speed of 24Mbps rather than the originally-intended 480Mbps. The Wireless Gigabit Alliance has completed its specification...
[December 11, 2009, 11:55]
What Sony Ericsson's up to: Part II
Blog Isn't this what WiMedia et al are doing? Following on from the announcements referred to in Part I, here's the lowdown on the future tech we got shown by Sony Ericsson, plus a bit more analysis. Project Capuchin - Now we're talking.
[September 25, 2008, 0:25]
