InfoWorld: Kerbango … toward The Broadcast Internet
Jun 14, 2000 — by Rick Lehrbaum — from the LinuxDevices Archive — viewsInfoWorld editor Bob Metcalf writes about Kerbango's Linux-based Internet radio appliance. He reviews the entire history of radio, the key technologies involved in today's Internet radio revolution, and some of the features of Kerbango's novel invention. Metcalf writes . . .
“Most scholars say Guglielmo Marconi invented radio, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1909 . . .”
“Kerbango, an Apple spin-off in Cupertino, Calif., now offers its Kerbango Tuning Service and this summer its Kerbango Internet Radio. Kerbango claims to offer the first stand-alone Internet radio. Look, Ma, no PC . . .”
“Inside is an 80 MHz PowerPC microprocessor with 8MB of DRAM and 8MB of flash memory. According to Kerbango, theirs is a 600-million-transistor radio. The Kerbango radio embeds Linux . . .”
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