Monday, February 03, 2003

News.com: "Just as venture capital fueled the Internet economy, municipal grants are being used to seed a projected boom in wireless networks." [Werblog] [Scott Mace's Radio Weblog] 8:47:16 PM  comment []       Proxim Enters Wireless Switch Business Proxim Enters Wireless Switch Business. Wireless LAN equipment maker Proxim Corp. on Monday announced its entry into the wireless switch business. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] 7:20:30 PM  comment []       Hiptop maker gets $35 million injection Hiptop maker gets $35 million injection. Start-up Danger nabs another $35 million in funding, which will be used to pull in new wireless carrier and hardware partners for its combo cell phone and PDA. By Richard Shim, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com] 6:56:39 PM  comment []       The PacketPC Gizmodo -> The PacketPC. Something that's slipping in underneath the radar from Sony: a 60GB, WiFi-enabled, portable hard drive called the PacketPC that's the size of an iPod and comes with an LCD touch screen for text entry, GPS, and an MP3 player. David Galbraith points out what is really amazing about the PacketPC though: Sony's enterprise backup service (a consumer service will be available later this year) means that the PacketPC will remotely sync via WiFi or Ethernet with an identical machine in a datastore. Lose your packet PC and clone replacement will be delivered by Fedex with 48 hours. The backup seems to be a simple disk image so there are no settings to really worry about, the offsite model is an exact clone of whatever is on your machine, and data is transferred in encrypted chunks for the enterprise service. Two questions. One: Is the PacketPC for real? And two: Won't backing up 60 GB take an awful long time? Read [Gizmodo] 7:45:21 AM  comment []       Convergence of identity Convergence of identity. As with standards, the problem with convergences is that there are so many to choose from. When the subject is digital convergence we often start with devices and media, which leads to a barrage of questions: Can I watch movies on my notebook PC? Can my Bluetooth cell phone double as a modem? Can my Internet connection replace my long-distance phone service? Increasingly, the answer to these questions is yes. But it's often hard to see the forest for the trees. There is an organizing principle here, identity, but it too is plural. Users, devices, networks, and services all have identities. More than convergence of devices and data types, it is a convergence of identity that we seek. [Full story at InfoWorld.com.] ... [Jon's Radio] 7:41:00 AM  comment []

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