Wednesday, March 12, 2003|
T-Mobile to provide CTIA Wi-Fi coverage: Alan Reiter reports that T-Mobile and Sprint contended with the organizers and conference center to have the right to offer service. They'll charge $10 per day or $20 for three days. Alan's not sure if his tutorial will have service, which is ironic. [80211b News]6:35:31 PM  comment
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David Weinberger (Cluetrain, JOHO, NPR) interviews David Reed on why interference is an illusion, and spectrum policy is deeply flawed: Reed says that the notion of interference is rooted in a pre-modern era in which devices spewed out radio frequencies and weren't intelligent enough to adapt. Interference is a metaphor that paints an old limitation of technology as a fact of nature, he says. [80211b News]6:35:02 PM comment
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Out-of-the-box airline carries over offbeat approach to IT. JetBlue Airways, the 3-year-old discount airline that has defied the odds and succeeded while most other airlines are struggling, takes an offbeat approach to running both its business and its IT operations. [Computerworld News] 6:18:17 PM comment
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Borders and Hilton Promote Centrino With Hotspots. Borders books and Hilton hotels join McDonald's in rolling out Wi-Fi hotspots to help the chipmaker launch its next-generation wireless chipset. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 6:17:15 PM comment
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Toshiba Pocket PC Adds Memory and Wi-Fi. The new Pocket PC e750 series offers more storage and integrated 802.11b. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 6:16:47 PM comment
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Tablet PC to learn more languages. Microsoft issues beta of update pack [InfoWorld: Top News] 6:12:07 PM comment
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Capitalists in Chinese Legislature Speak Out for Property Rights. Pro-business groups have issued loud public calls for a constitutional amendment to protect private property from arbitrary confiscation. By Christopher Buckley. [New York Times: Business]
Wow -- this is a very interesting item. Hopefully, a trend. What's next - Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? I know this guy will be happy. |
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How a managed security provider helps protect the enterpise. Employing a managed security service provider to monitor your IDS is the key to keeping your enterprise secure, say Paul Castellano and John McGillick. They explain why they used one at Allegheny Energy. [Computerworld Security News] 6:06:53 PM comment
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Intel launches Centrino mobile platform. Going through the motions [The Register] 4:52:55 PM comment
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Psion-Tek netBook in Swiss 4,000 unit GPRS deal. A customer? Good heavens... [The Register] 4:51:42 PM comment
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VIA chipset targets mobile Athlon XP-M. Centrino who? [The Register] 4:50:28 PM comment
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A correspondent in New York called to say that he was walking by the Times Square McDonald's -- the Cometa network in New York McDonald's went live today; look at that big white empty country -- and saw men dressed in purple suits with laptops strapped around their stomachs. You were supposed to walk up and use these laptops, typing inches from their private parts. (He promises a photo.) [80211b News]4:43:37 PM comment
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They aren't dancing in the street, but purple-clad men have laptops strapped to their bellies in Times Square: Today in New York, Intel has been showing off its new Centrino system, a set of three components including a wireless module, that they claim will radically increase battery life, potentially improving it by 50 to 100 percent, through more efficient processor usage and chips that control the power to various components including the wireless radio. [80211b News]4:09:09 PM comment
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The Martian NetDrive Wireless: 40 gigabytes of small, silent, 802.11b filesharing [80211b News]1:10:56 PM comment
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