Central site for all of Microsoft's mobile platforms and efforts. Well worth spending some time looking through.
6:12:45 PM    comment   

Airify and Helic announce GRPS/Wi-Fi chipset collaboration: this could be the Holy Grail, kids. A two-chip chipset that would allow a manufacturer to produce a PC Card or PCI card that could handle both next-generation cellular data and our favorite 2.4 GHz signal modulation. [Via Alan Reiter]

2:30:19 PM    comment   

A community network in Sydney, Australia gets the religion: Mega WAN Project: if we think telcos are a problem in the U.S., just ask anybody anywhere else. Sydney Wireless is using mapping, Web sites, and a desire to not pay telcos to string together a city-wide net.

2:25:00 PM    comment   

Jim Hamlin writes from the Antarctic (I kid you not): "We are using 802.11b in Antarctica with great success. For example, one of our links uses Cisco 340 bridges 55 miles apart, a 21dBi dish, and a bi-directional amplifier. The link has never dropped due to inclement weather, and we have the worst weather imaginable. The scientists are using wireless NICs in their laptops, which link to an access point, the wired network and out via a wireless bridge. All this is done in the most remote parts of Antarctica." (I'm guessing the FCC doesn't have jurisdiction down there, but who does?)

2:20:20 PM    comment   

Proxim hedges bets; to merge with Western Multiplex: Proxim has its fingers deep into HomeRF, the future of which is still an interesting uncertainty. Its merger with Farallon in 2000 added Wi-Fi gear; the Farallon brand recently disappeared into the Proxim line. Western Multiplex makes enterprise-grade high-speed wireless systems, and it gives the combined company a real consumer to telco range of customer and product.

Omar: This is a pretty good move for Proxim which further distances them from HomeRF. Furthermore, it makes them a more attractive acquisition, especially for a European telecommunications infrastructure player such as Alcatel.
2:08:47 PM    comment