Friday, January 03, 2003

Wi-Fi by land to the sea: A company has quietly installed $5 million worth of Wi-Fi gear pointing outwards from major coastal areas to serve private boating and the cruise ship industry. This is remarkably clever, as physics tells us that a tower not very high up on the coast can have a direct line of sight to a huge swath of sea within its range. The company, Wheat Wireless Services's TeleSea division, says that they cover the coast from Baltimore to the Florida Keys, Puget Sound, San Francisco Bay, Long Island Sound, Southern California, and Hawaii. Their source of financing isn't mentioned. How did they submarine this deployment, no joke intended? [via TechDirt][80211b News] 8:03:42 PM  comment []       Blogroots -> "2003: Year of the Blog Prefix." Harold Gilchrist predicts the proliferation of prefixes for various types of blogs based on device, medium, and addition of rich content. Jish had his voxblog, mobile users have their moblogs, and vlogging has begun to rear its head. Are we seeing a diversification of blog content, or just the attachment of prefixes to a convenient buzzword? 7:03:17 AM  comment []

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