Thursday, December 05, 2002

80211b News -> Boingo embedded hot spot clarification: Christian Gunning from Boingo provided me a clarification on my statement that Boingo software would be embedded on consumer access points and gateways. I was wrong! We're not embedding anything in these devices. We provide the manufacturer with a list of industry standard features and parameters we need in the device to enable out-of-the-box integration -- e.g., full RADIUS functionality and specific attributes, https auth support, access control with passthrough support, etc. And then we test it thoroughly with several hot spot configuration scenarios to ensure it works correctly. There isn't any proprietary code or software in the Boingo Ready specification. We are firm believers in embracing standards to push the industry forward. That echoes one of the messages of 802.11 Planet. Of course, the other half of that message from Proxim and others (see below) is that we're going to support standards even if we're supporting our notion of the draft of a standard! 10:28:10 PM  comment []     Television Icon Dies   Television pioneer Roone Arledge, chairman and longtime president of ABCNEWS, died today in New York City of complications from cancer. He was 71.     Who can forget " the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat". Arledge was the first to introduce instant replays, slow motion and advanced graphics. He was also responsible for Monday Night Football, Wide World of Sports and network TV Olympic sports coverage. 10:03:12 PM  comment []       80211b News -> "Infoworld offers the detail later in the day that the companies will serve the top 50 metropolitan areas with access during 2003." 6:22:35 PM  comment []       Werblog -> Supernova Blog: The Next Communications Network 6:16:37 PM  comment []       allNetDevices Wireless News -> Internet Appliance Revival. Internet appliances, led by Microsoft's Tablet PC, may see a revival over the next several years, according to a new report from Allied Business Intelligence (ABI). 6:10:59 PM  comment []       allNetDevices Wireless News -> "Boingo Recruiting For Wi-Fi Hotspots. EarthLink founder Sky Dayton says his company can make anyone a hotspot operator with very little complaints coming from ISPs. " 6:07:48 PM  comment []       CNET News.com -> Tech titans team to launch Wi-Fi firm. Intel, IBM and AT&T announce a new company that combines technologies from the trio to provide wireless broadband Internet access nationwide. 3:31:50 PM  comment []       Via InfoWorld: Top News -> Bush signs bill for child-safe domain names. "President inks Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act" 11:46:27 AM  comment []       RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing -> "SOHO router sales climbing Further evidence that the edge of the network is becoming more sophisticated and, hence, more demanding in terms of the content and services it will want, in email this AM from In-Stat/MDR. According to the market research firm, SOHO (small office, home office) routers sales are increasing, up 68 percent from the first half of 2001. Notably: a.. Average Selling Prices (ASPs) of low-end routers decreased roughly 42% from 1H 01 to 1H 02. a.. Linksys and Cisco continue to remain number one and two in the low-end router market place, but in 2Q 02, Zyxel ousted NETGEAR from the third position because Zyxel doubled their shipments of SOHO routers. a.. The majority of SOHO routers (greater than 60%) are shipped to North America." 11:35:45 AM  comment []       Via PocketPCHow2 Log -> "I have downloaded and installed Softmaker's TextMa .... I have downloaded and installed Softmaker's TextMaker for Pocket PCs. It is simply amazing to see such a full featured Word Processing application running on a Pocket PC. You can do tables, and you can do footnotes and headers. In fact, you can do anything with TextMaker that you can do with Word on a desktop PC. I'm also supposed to read and write MS-Word files. I can read MS-Word files with no problems, including files with headers, tables, and footers, but I cannot write to a Word file format. The Pocket PC just clocks, and while I can cancel the operation by tapping OK, all I end up with is an empty file. I haven't had time to research this problem, which is occuring for me on the new Dell Axim Pocket PC. One of the things you need to be aware of with TextMaker is that it has huge storage space requirements. After installation it occupies 5.33 MB, and it needs more than that during installation. I attempted to install TextMaker to the 5.62 MB of available "Built-in Storage" on the Axim, but since it has to put the temporary files there and then expand them into separate files, there is not enough space. For now I have TextMaker located in internal storage, though the TextMaker FAQ does say it can go on a storage card. My brief testing of TextMaker has been on the 300 Mhz Dell Axim, which has an X-Scale processor and the program appears a bit sluggish. Performance is noticably worse if you enable ClearType, so you may want to keep that off. I will install this on a traditional 206 MHz Strong Arm to see how well it runs. While the performance is noticably slower, the tremendous amount of additional functionality you obtain more than compensates. Besides the performance and storage space items the other negative for many people will be the $49 price tag. It seems most people balk at any Pocket PC program priced higher than $20. In this instance, I think the functionality justifies the price. The market will bear it because if you want something better than Pocket Word on your Pocket PC, you have no choice but to buy this program." 7:45:55 AM  comment []

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