Doctors at Graz's University Medical School joined forces with the Austrian Research Center (ARC) and the mobile telephone company, mobilkom Austria, in the study involving 25 patients with high blood pressure.

Friedrich M. Fruwald, professor of cardiology at Graz, told Reuters Health that the study showed that monitoring chronically ill patients using mobile phones was technically feasible and also safe.
8:26:38 PM    comment   

News.com on the potential for point-to-point and mesh wireless to the home: A nice survey of the options out there, the technology to feed it, and some of the companies involved, focused on Etherlinx and John Furrier.

8:03:02 PM    comment   

Pyramid Research's latest Wi-Fi newsletter: Some excellent insight from Pyramid Research in their free Wi-Fi newsletter.

8:02:45 PM    comment   

Spotty Wi-Fi hot spots in Hawaii: Wi-Fi hot spots are increasing, but pricing and availability are spotty and inconsistent.

7:57:31 PM    comment   

Insite into UK Wi-Fi: UK cell operators paid about US$40 billion for 3G licenses; they're running scared. British Telecomm continues to push forward on their target of 400 hot spots by August. (Wasn't that 400 hot spots by last year originally and 4,000 this year?) [via Alan Reiter]

7:54:04 PM    comment   

Intel, Wayport co-market: Interestingly vis-a-vis Intel's investment in Cometa, Intel will be offering marketing support to Wayport to promote their new inclusion of wireless networking technology in chipsets. Wayport reveals some numbers: 126K connections per month (no breakout for subscribers versus one-day sessions), but only 5 to 10 percent are wireless. Still, an interesting benchmark of 6,000 to 12,000 wireless connections per month. (Wayport's hotel networks are still largely the older Ethernet into the room style.)

7:53:39 PM    comment   

A step towards US spectrum harmonization/coordination: The FCC and NTIA signed an agreement that should allow better coordination of frequency policy. Now if Congress could just sign an agreement that says that they won't introduce individual bills to govern frequency reallocation but rather only create omnibus bills for spectrum that separate out the auction issue, we might have a national policy. Until then, Congress can always try to force the FCC's hand.

7:53:03 PM    comment   

Crisp summary of 5 GHz compromise: The more I read about the US military and US industry compromise on the use of the 5 GHz band (including, I believe, more spectrum to be opened up), the more I think that the adaptive response to radar presence is just a modification of or extension to 802.11h, the European power/signal adaptive modification to 802.11a. Does anyone know for sure?

7:52:36 PM    comment