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Satellite radio’s unsteady orbit

XM and Sirius will continue to duke it out in the burgeoning satellite radio market – if they have enough cash to survive.

For music fans frustrated by the homogenous din of the Clear Channel-controlled universe, satellite radio seems to have it all: crystalline sound; more than 100 channels of music, news, and talk; the artist and song title

 
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ZigBee: The next-gen wireless hope

It doesn’t have much power and it’s relatively slow. That’s why the 802.15.4 wireless standard will soon be king of machine-to-machine communication.

The promise of wireless technology has always been hobbled by one flaw: wireless devices tend to be awful energy hogs. That’s where ZigBee steps in.

ZigBee is tech speak for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’

 
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