Tuesday, February 19, 2002|
Veteran technology reporter Paul Andrews writes about public-space for-fee Wi-Fi hurdles to adoption: while I agree with Paul on the consumer side, I know that as more and more companies adopt Wi-Fi internally, an ocean of road warriors with wireless cards will start to transform the commercial use of Wi-Fi as they start to expect and demand service. I'm ready to make a prediction (and eat a can of Pringles chips if I'm wrong) that public space commercial Wi-Fi will start to exceed a million regular subscribers by mid-2003. By that time, the market will have split into tiers and niche players offering overlays onto Wi-Fi commodities, as Boingo's Sky Dayton has predicted, and the consumer element will be available alongside the business. The reason pricing is so high now is that everyone is sure enough of the race to the bottom, that no one dare price service too low and lose on margin while they can still get it. A second issue: real-estate venues get a split of the payment, and you have to guarantee a reasonable amount of money per user and session which requires high per-day or per-month fees, relatively speaking. [80211b News]9:24:34 PM  comment
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The week ahead: It's a wireless world. Two conferences will attract the wireless industry this week: the 3GSM World Congress in France and Internet World's Wireless East conference in New York. [CNET News.com] 9:22:28 PM comment
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The quest for near-perfect compression. The CEO of start-up ZeoSync says he has hit on a unique method that successfully solves a software problem that many consider unsolvable. Skeptics abound. [CNET News.com] 9:18:03 PM comment
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3GSM - HP launches color-integrated GSM/GPRS phone PDA [IDG InfoWorld] 9:14:43 PM comment
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Giants make waves with wireless plans. U.S. wireless carriers are introduced to a bevy of new products; Microsoft, RealNetworks, Motorola and HP unveil plans for wireless devices that let people send e-mail, watch video clips and more. [CNET News.com] 9:12:27 PM comment
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News.Com: Is Microsoft getting ahead of itself? "As Microsoft prepares to launch the first trials of .Net My Services this fall, key details of the plan are still 'not figured out,' said Jim Allchin, Microsoft's group vice president in charge of Windows and server software development. 'I think we just got ahead of ourselves and didn't get clear enough thinking,' he said, echoing similar concerns voiced last August." Must read.  [Scripting News]9:07:15 PM comment
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EE Times: Microsoft operating system supports GSM on PDAs. The key difference between the two resides in the user interface, Perryman said. The PocketPC Phone Edition lets users navigate through a bigger screen with touch functions and handwriting recognition. The Stinger allows operation via soft keys on a mobile phone. [Tomalak's Realm] 9:05:04 PM comment
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Ocala, Florida, newspaper editor declares Wi-Fi unsafe at any speed: while this editor understands the underlying issue, I feel he's blaming Wi-Fi for not incorporating higher-layer standards into its core protocol. Instead, I'd argue, the very same VPN software he describes as protecting LANs are equally as valid and necesary for WLANs. Any IT director who operates a wireless network without putting it outside a firewall and requiring access only via VPN should probably not longer be an IT director. [80211b News] 2:29:05 PM comment
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Seattle Times nails the business wireless market scenario: I apologize for ignoring the newspaper in my own backyard (and which I write for). Sharon Pian Chan cut to the heart of the several intersecting battles and opportunities on Wi-Fi business side. [80211b News]2:21:42 PM comment
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