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ZigBee Alliance Sees Unprecedented Momentum Shaping 2006

Acquisitions, Partnerships and Market Expectation for Certified Products
Demonstrate Overwhelming Value of Standard

San Ramon, Calif.–February 1, 2006–The ZigBee™ Alliance, an association of companies working together to enable wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard, recognized a number of recent industry events demonstrating unprecedented value in the long-term market potential for ZigBee devices.

• On January 24, Texas Instruments (TI) Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) completed its acquisition of ZigBee Alliance Promoter Member, Chipcon, a leading company in the design of short range, low-power wireless RF (radio frequency) transceiver devices and a provider of industry-leading ZigBee™-compliant solutions. That acquisition combines Chipcon’s market leading radio frequency portfolio, technical support and development tools with TI’s high performance analog silicon technologies, systems expertise and sales network to provide customers with complete low-power wireless solutions.
• On January 10, STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) and ZigBee Alliance Promoter Member, Ember Corporation, announced that STMicro will become a second source for Ember’s ZigBee semiconductors and protocol software. Both companies will jointly develop future ZigBee solutions including hardware, software and tools, to address the fast growing ZigBee market. The deal combines Ember’s expertise and intellectual property in 802.15.4/ZigBee radio hardware and software, with STMicro’s world-class capabilities in semiconductor technology and development, as well as its global manufacturing and marketing resources.

“Many companies look to a worldwide industry standard when developing products and systems for a number of reasons, including quality technology specs that result from input from a variety of companies, second sourcing, and benefits that accompany certified and interoperable products. We have seen significant momentum building for ZigBee,” said Principal Analyst Joyce Putscher of In-Stat. “The recent addition of industry giants TI and ST only reaffirms our expectations that the market for ZigBee-enabled products will see exceptional growth.”

The ZigBee Alliance is now more than 200 Alliance Members strong and has a presence in 24 countries spanning six continents. OEMs and end-product manufacturers now represent 30 percent of the global membership. With the acquisition of Chipcon, TI now joins the elite group of Promoter members: BM Group, Ember, Freescale, Honeywell, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Phillips and Samsung.

“The low power wireless sensor networking market based primarily on industry-standard IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee is set to take off and will show significant growth in the coming years,” said Art George, vice president of TI’s high performance linear business. “Texas Instruments is enhancing its ability to become the leading complete solution provider in this market by acquiring Chipcon, the technology pioneer in this field."

To ensure interoperability, the Alliance implemented a testing process for products before they enter the market and will designate products as “ZigBee Certified. ”This independently administered process will reduce marketplace frustration by ensuring that all ZigBee-based products are fully interoperable “out of box” and can easily enter into a ZigBee network. Manufacturers, OEMs and developers can qualify for one of three test programs:

1. “ZigBee Compliant Platform” tests modules or platforms that are intended to be used as building blocks for end-products
2. “ZigBee Certified” tests apply to end-products built on a ZigBee Compliant Platform using a ZigBee public application profile
3. “ZigBee Network Capable” tests products built upon a ZigBee-compliant platform but using a non-public ZigBee application profile

“The flurry of recent acquisition and partnership activity by industry giants TI and ST demonstrate the bottom line value and tremendous potential of the ZigBee standard,” said Bob Heile, chairman of the ZigBee Alliance. “Over the past year, in excess of 2 million ZigBee radio chips were sold – more than any other radio technology in this space. These chips were delivered to consumer product and other device manufacturing companies that are designing the next generation end user products that will be certified to work together seamlessly, and you can bet that this trend will increase exponentially.”

ZigBee is the only standards-based technology designed to address the unique needs of low cost, low-power, wireless sensor networks for remote monitoring, home control, and building automation network applications in the industrial and consumer markets. Companies who want to have input on developing the ZigBee specification and create ZigBee products can join by visiting www.zigbee.org/join/.

ZigBee: Wireless Control That Simply Works
The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. The ZigBee Alliance is a rapidly growing, non-profit industry consortium of leading semiconductor manufacturers, technology providers, OEMs, and end-users worldwide. Membership is open to all. Additional information can be found at www.zigbee.org.

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Portable Director Cell Phone Jammer

Mon Jan 30, 2006

The CX 200 Portable Director II Cell Phone Jammer. Take a good look, because you may see a lot more of these little babies arriving here in the West once laws get changed, and people reach the end of tethers with loud mouths. The strange translation from Japanese says something like – ‘secretly switch on' – so it’s clearly covert. Uh-huh. Anyhoo, two modes, one gives 70 seconds jamming (i.e. peace) around you, the other fades out the call ‘with natural atmosphere’ presumably to help you end calls you’d rather not continue. Around $71.00. Effective area: Approximately 3 m Correspondence: NTT DOCOMO (800MHz), FOMA (2gHz), VodaFone (1. 5 gHz), au (Cdmaone) Use power source: Single 4 alkaline ×2 books Electric battery life: With timer mode approximately 150 times, approximately with continual ON 4 hours

Source: The RedFerret Journal

An Idea For Our Scientific Readers To Think About

Brad,

Thanks for the newsletter. I had a brainstorm the other day in my thinking room (bathroom). The initial thought came after seeing video and audio from "Al Queda" and his gang.

I had an idea that is related to triangulating where an audio or video tape was created. Your article on mine safety messaging triggered the thought process again.

The idea is that ultra low frequency sound or electromagnetic (radio) waves could be created that comes from multiple sources and covers a large area, causing a unique energy pattern to occur at different locations throughout the coverage area. The energy would not be detectable by the human ear but would be recorded on the audio or video tape and would be analyzable by equipment.

Analysis of the recorded energy pattern could possibly allow determination of where the tape was recorded.

The energy delivery could be via satellite or via ground based transmitters. The success of this would be based on several assumptions:

• Provides triangulation down to one square mile or less
• Not detectable by human ear or visible by human eye, but detectable by machine
• Detectable on either recorded audio or video as sound or electromagnetic wave pattern
• Large coverage area of monitored location, hundreds of square miles, for example
• The enemy not knowing about this technology deployment and not interfering with it

Food for thought. Disclaimer: No drugs were used in the creation of this message.

Regards,

Anonymous

Used Paging Equipment for Sale

All equipment is used and was working when removed from service, most of it I have no way of testing anymore. All are in reasonably good shape, no apparent water damage or mouse tracks.

Any reasonable offer considered, buyer will pay actual shipping. I have a UPS account for shipping, or I can use the buyer's account if they prefer. UPS is more convenient for me, but I will do FedEx if asked. I will only ship within the US, sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

The above equipment for sale is from a reader. Please let me know (Brad Dye) if you are interested in any of this equipment and I will put you in touch with the seller.

Giving Away Paging Frequencies

Hi Brad,

These may (or may not) be of interest. I believe some the freqs in question were once used for paging. The original petition for rulemaking is attached, and the notice for comments is here:

PUBLIC NOTICE     Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 News Media Information 202 / 418-0500 Internet: http://www.fcc.gov TTY: 1-888-835-5322 Internet: http://www.fcc.gov ftp: fcc.gov         Report No. 2755 January 27, 2006 CONSUMER & GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS BUREAU REFERENCE INFORMATION CENTER PETITION FOR RULEMAKINGS FILED Interested persons may file statements opposing or supporting the Petition for Rulemakings listed herein within 30 days, or as noted. See Sections 1.4 and 1.405 of the Commission's rules for further information. RM NO. RULES SEC. PETITIONER DATE RECEIVED NATURE OF PETITION 11311 22 and 90 Icom America Inc. 06/15/04 Amendment of Parts 22 and 90 of the Commission's rules to reallocate certain 150 MHz public mobile radio service frequencies to the public safety radio services     (Filed By: Alan S. Tilles, Esq. Shulman, Rogers, Gandal Pordy & Ecker, P.A. Third Floor 11921 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland 20852)                 - FCC -

Source: The document above is on the FCC web site.
Source: The original Icom Petition, June 15, 2004. (“pdf” file)

Editor's note: I like Icom equipment, in fact I own some of it myself. I am, however, a little uncomfortable with a Japanese company boldly trying to influence a branch of the US government in this manner. If our Public Safety organizations need spectrum that is allocated to Paging, then they should be petitioning the FCC, not a foreign equipment manufacturer. The following news article reports on the same issue.

Public Safety Could Get Un-auctioned Paging Spectrum

February 01, 2005

A petition for rulemaking submitted to the Federal Communications Commission more than 18 months ago regarding the reallocation of un-auctioned paging spectrum finally is up for comment.

In June 2004, Icom America asked the agency to reallocate spectrum that went unsold in two previous auctions to the Public Safety Radio Services. The commission just put the item on public notice, with comments regarding the petition due Feb. 27.

According to Icom America’s petition, the commission conducted two auctions for geographic “overlay” licenses in the 150 MHz band (as well as in other Part 22 bands) in Auctions 40 and 48. In Auction 40, which closed in December 2001 after 140 rounds, more than 1,750 economic area licenses for 150 MHz frequencies failed to generate a single bid, Icom America said, despite the fact that all but a few licenses had a minimum opening bid of $500 and just $350 if the bidder qualified for a “very small bidding credit.” As such, there were no bids for licenses in the crowded markets of New York City, Miami, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Denver, Seattle and others.

In Auction 48, which closed in May 2003 after 56 rounds, the FCC re-auctioned licenses for which no bids had been placed in Auction 40. At the close of this re-auction, more than 900 licenses for 150 MHz spectrum went untouched, including economic area licenses for paired channels in Cincinnati (11 channel pairs unsold), Indianapolis (6 pairs), Nashville (9 pairs), and Memphis (3 pairs), in addition to a host of smaller communities across the country.

Icom America wrote, “The commission has a unique opportunity to alleviate some of the spectrum congestion experienced by public-safety licensees in the spectrum band which is utilized by over 70 percent of public-safety entities, with channels that the Commission has been unable to give away to non-public safety entities. Reallocation of the spectrum cannot only help alleviate congestion, but may also permit re-banding to create channel pairs on existing 150 MHz public safety spectrum by utilizing the new spectrum’s ‘green space.’”

Icom America acknowledged there are incumbent licensees on these Part 22 channels as well as Auction 40 and Auction 48 licensees that have only recently obtained their licenses and may not yet be operational. As such, it suggested the FCC “grandfather these existing operations indefinitely, and that licensees have unrestricted ability to assign their authorizations.”

In its petition, the company also asked the commission to make any waivers regarding reallocated spectrum “the exception” so that the current process doesn't “eviscerate” the rule. “The need for additional public-safety spectrum in the 150 MHz band is not a ‘special circumstance’ warranting rule waivers but rather a nationwide problem that can be aided with commission action to reallocate spectrum apparently unwanted by non-public safety entities,” it added. “There seems little need for public safety entities to repeatedly prove in each individual case that 150 MHz spectrum available to trunked use (particularly paired spectrum) is just not available virtually anywhere.”

Icom America's parent company Icom Inc. is a public Japanese corporation. It began as an engineering and manufacturing company serving the amateur radio industry, but its products now include communications equipment and products for the land mobile marine and avionics industries.

Source: TelecomWeb

Gabriel Subsidiary Trace Technologies Launches Commercial Trace Location Services

OMAHA, Neb.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Feb. 2, 2006--Gabriel Technologies Corp. (OTCBB:GWLK), a homeland security company providing physical locking systems, wireless biometric security products and GPS tracking services, announced today that its subsidiary Trace Technologies has launched its commercial Trace Location Services.

Trace provides a flexible, rapidly deployable assisted-GPS location-based service. It enables a wide array of cost efficient, customizable applications aimed at locating and tracking assets and people in a variety of challenging environments when minimal size, greater signal sensitivity and extended battery life are essential. The superior signal penetration of the Trace service allows users to track mobile assets in high interference environments where conventional GPS systems lose reception, such as in buildings, urban canyons, cargo trailers and other obscured locations. Trace believes that its proprietary two-way paging-over-wireless-network software and web services interface based on Qualcomm Snaptrak™'s GPS software will revolutionize how and where GPS can be applied.

Trace has begun several large-scale commercial evaluations of the entire service offering, including evaluations by the federal government.

Gabriel CEO Keith Feilmeier said, "Not only do we have orders pending for Trace services and devices, but also for a campus service center. We are actively building our base of application service providers who act as value-added resellers, providing the customized mapping solution for our end users. In addition, we are exploring major partnerships with government integrators and commercial port security and logistics entities.

"This commercial launch further validates the value of Trace Location Services. We anticipate a highly successful future for these services. This marks a culmination of significant research, development and testing of our end-to-end assisted-GPS services and location device," Feilmeier said.

About Gabriel Technologies Corp.

Gabriel Technologies is a leading provider of proprietary solutions in three rapidly growing segments of the homeland security market - asset tracking, physical security and biometrics. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Gabriel Technologies, LLC of Omaha, Neb., Gabriel Technologies Corp. develops, manufactures and sells a series of physical locking systems for the transportation and shipping industries collectively known as the WAR-LOK™ Security System. Security has evolved substantially in recent years due to increased risks from theft and terrorism. With the implementation of the award-winning WAR-LOK, Gabriel Technologies provides cost-efficient security measures to prevent national and global theft and homeland security issues. Gabriel Technologies' mission is to provide the highest quality security products available to the transportation and shipping industries by creating innovative, proven technologies that can be implemented on a realistic basis. Gabriel Technologies Corp. is also the parent company of the next-generation assisted-GPS company, Trace Technologies, LLC, http://www.trace-tech.net. The company's Digital Defense™ Group is a leading provider of wireless biometric security products based on patent-pending technology. See http://www.mydigitaldefense.com .

Further information can be found at http://www.gabrieltechnologies.com. For more information about Gabriel, contact Dan Leonard at (402) 614-0258.

An investment profile on the company can be found at http://www.hawkassociates.com/gabriel/profile.htm.

Investors may contact Frank Hawkins or Julie Marshall, Hawk Associates, at (305) 451-1888, e-mail: info@hawkassociates.com. An online investor relations kit containing Gabriel Technologies' press releases, SEC filings, current Level II price quotes, interactive Java stock charts and other useful information for investors can be found at http://www.hawkassociates.com and http://www.americanmicrocaps.com.

Forward-Looking Statements: Investors are cautioned that certain statements contained in this document are "Forward-Looking Statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements which are predictive in nature, which depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, which include words such as "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "expects" and similar expressions. In addition, any statements concerning future financial performance (including future revenues, earnings or growth rates), ongoing business strategies or prospects, and possible future Gabriel actions, which may be provided by management, are also forward-looking statements as defined by the act. These statements are not guarantees of future performance.

Source: BusinessWire

Trio combine for Wi-Fi/cellular handset ref design

John Walko
EE Times
(02/01/2006 1:28 PM EST)

LONDON—Quorum Systems, Inc., TTPCom Ltd and Analog Devices Inc. have collaborated on a GSM/Voice-over-Wi-Fi dual-mode handset reference design.

Dubbed the Sereno UM-1 and housed in a small form-factor clam-shell design, the reference design incorporates Quorum’s QS2000 single-chip bulk-CMOS multi-mode transceiver, ADI’s Blackfin SoftFone EDGE chipset and TTPCom’s protocol stack and architecture.

The companies suggest phones that support Wi-Fi and cellular will become one of the fastest growing market segments, and would reach over 100 million units by 2010.

Until now, cellular and Wi-Fi functionality was only available in $500 smartphone devices. The companies suggest that with the UM-1, dual-mode GSM/VoWi-Fi capability is now available at a sub-$100 price-point.

All three companies will be demonstrating the reference design at next month’s 3GSM Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

The handset will enable simultaneous multi-mode functionality and seamless hand-off for operation in the office, home and everywhere between. The hardware platform can support SIP and Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) modes of operation for VoIP.

Quorum says the Multi-Access Technology (QMAT) at the heart of its Sereno device more than doubles the Wi-Fi range for voice applications when compared to today’s cordless VoIP. In cellular mode, the QS2000 is said to increases talk-time and standby capacity of the UM-1 by 10 percent and 20 percent respectively without compromising GSM/GPRS/EDGE and Wi-Fi radio performance.

The technology allows the QS2000’s radio resource to be shared, enabling simultaneous multi-mode functionality while maximizing the reuse of external circuitry. The tightly integrated transceiver is made with low power, low cost CMOS technology.

Quorum also says physical antenna placement and interference issues that have previously plagued the design of converged handsets have also been eliminated as a result of its Intellectual Property.

“This is a truly significant step towards accelerating the adoption of converged Wi-Fi/cellular handsets,” said Bernard Xavier, President and CEO of Quorum Systems, in a statement.

“Together, our companies have effectively designed a ready-made converged handset that allows customers to get a high-quality product into production and into the market in the shortest possible period of time, all while saving a considerable amount on bill of materials and development costs,” adds Xavier.

Key features of the reference design include active interference mitigation during full Wi-Fi transmit power; co-location of multiple antenna(s) with no performance degradation; true Quad-band GSM operation for USGSM850, EGSM900, DCS1800, PCS1900; and multimedia capabilities such as 64 tone polyphonic ringer, SMS/EMS/MMS messaging client, customizable MMI based on TTPCom’s Architecture, and 262K color main display WAP2.0 compliant browser.

Source: EE Times

Wow, there was a lot of very interesting news this week. If you hear or read something good for next week's issue, please share it with me.

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