Mobilog

Saturday, February 16, 2002

Glenn Fleishman: Three Gee Whiz. The New York Times Circuits section did a fantastic job today in dissecting the hype behind 3G deployments, and making it clear to all and sundry that 3G is interesting, maybe useful, but isn't yet up to its own hype, and may only achieve part of its currently stated goals. [Tomalak's Realm]
7:01:25 PM

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802.1X can be toppled 'like set of dominoes'. Wireless LANs are STILL insecure [The Register]
7:00:24 PM

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PayPal: IPO Omen or Anomaly?. Disproving the skeptics, online-payment firm PayPal pulls off an initial stock offering and actually does very, very well in first-day trading. Experts say it's a tentative sign investors are warming up to Internet firms. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
6:54:57 PM

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IOC: We Never Said It: the Olympics organizing committee apparently never said that they wouldn't consider 802.11 until 2008. Their contractor decided that for 2004 that the Olympics would continue to use existing, tested equipment, while continuing to evaluate 802.11 standards for future use. (This is what NASA does: they use old, slow, reliable technology for a lot longer than the rest of us.)

[80211b News]
6:51:03 PM

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