Monday, January 20, 2003|
See the USA with a Wi-Fi array: I'm trying to hard to fit the jingle to the story, but automotive Wi-Fi may take off, with units in the car talking to mobile components to transfer music, misc. Imagine having a gateway in your car that provides an Car Area Network (CAN). Imagine bridging the CAN to GSM/GPRS as needed. Imagine bridging the CAN to a hot spot location when you're near one. Imagine that you can do that today with...a Macintosh running OS X or a Windows XP box with the right hoo-ha. But in-car, permanent components would be better. [via TechDirt] [80211b News]5:57:26 PM  comment
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Why use T-Mobile when in a Starbucks? Competitors abound: This excellent piece of analysis describes the trouble in hegemony: with T-Mobile charging a relatively high rate for access in their 2,000+ locations, how can they compete with free or cheaper from nearby signals to the Starbucks outlets? Starbucks are, practically by definition, found in dense and hip areas which are the same places you'll find Surf and Sip and community networks. The head of Surf and Sip has long played a game of finding locations where he can see several coffee shops and restaurants, not just one partner. [via TechDirt] [80211b News]5:54:12 PM comment
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The infusion of IT into ordinary objects turns products into smart items, items capable of independently collecting information from their environment, processing data, and communicating over mobile networks. A tire becomes a smart tire that monitors its own pressure and knows when it needs to be replaced. The basis for this development is Ubiquitous Computing. Familiar physical objects are enhanced with IT components that can be networked just like processes and information systems. Smart items don't need human beings to serve as intermediaries between the real and virtual worlds; information flows without media breaks. Such new processes can be realized now thanks to the increasing miniaturization of high-performance computer chips and sensors and the progress made with mobile data-transmission. 5:16:56 PM comment
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Aether Forms Alliance With EDS. EDS announced that it will create new wireless products based on Aether's Fusion platform. Separately, Aether introduces two new products intended to accelerate enterprise deployments of mobile applications. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 4:27:31 PM comment
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Study: Why IT implementations go bad [IDG InfoWorld] 4:27:06 PM comment
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E-mail adoption rates slow. Acceptance of new releases stymied by shrinking IT budgets and complexity of upgrades [InfoWorld: Top News] 4:26:50 PM comment
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Airships reborn. Jeff Harrow reports that 21st Century Airships has won a contract to build "cell tower replacement" airships for several US companies. Here is what they look like:
Very cool, these "bandwidth ships" could provide the needed element to make mesh networks a reality (the connection of last resort and/or the paid connection to the larger network). The interesting part is that a national network (one that covers most major cities) could be built for ~$300 - 600m. I know for a fact that there are several competing projects going on at major defense contractors to build airships of this type. So there is substance behind this. It's time to put this network together. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] |
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Tech Predictions for the Decade. The market research firm IDC describes its technology forecast for the coming decade, including such wonders as building materials that can weather virtually any natural disaster and a new way to find what you're actually looking for on the Net. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News] 3:51:18 PM comment
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Newsweek: Sony's New Day. Steven Levy. To Idei, everything comes together with his beloved buzzword: broadband. Sony will create not only network-connected products but also devise services that deliver the content--much of which Sony owns through its own music, movie and game divisions. [Tomalak's Realm] 3:50:41 PM comment
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Renaissance Genius as Compulsive Draftsman. A comprehensive show of rare drawings by Leonardo da Vinci at the Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks to reveal the artist's creative process. By Carol Vogel. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 3:43:18 PM comment
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WirelessDevNet prepares hot spot directory: The folks at WirelessDevNet have launched a form to submit hot spot information in the hopes of creating a comprehensive directory. There are other directories, but none of them appears to be entirely exhaustive. Hopefully, someone will be smart enough to avoid forms in the future and create an XML DTD + Schema that can be used to prepare uniform hot spot listings which could be downloaded via a regular ping from the WISP sites and then just integrated into directories. Anybody want to launch this very simple effort and then convince the wISPr committee at the Wi-Fi Alliance to take up that uniform listing format idea? [80211b News]2:58:08 PM comment
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Henry Norr tears 802.11g a new one: Sorry for the coarse euphemism, but there's no other way to put it. Norr tries out a variety of 802.11g gear, and finds poor performance and poor interoperability. If someone as tech savvy as him is having these problems with early gear, what can consumers expect? I'd like to see more information about the throughput issues: he was seeing lower throughput on 802.11g than b (using homogeneous equipment), but I wonder if he'd locked them into "g only" mode? [80211b News]2:42:42 PM comment
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