Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Starwood executive discusses hotel chain's Wi-Fi trials [IDG InfoWorld]
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RealNetworks to unveil major European wireless deal [IDG InfoWorld]
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The Wireless Mall Rat. A blockbuster deal to unwire 63 shopping malls puts San Diego-based Wireless Facilities Inc. solidly on the Wi-Fi map. They say the success is because of their radio frequency expertise. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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MicroOptical Intros Eyewear Display, Wireless Kit for Mobile Devices. The eyewear viewer specialist has announced a display that clips onto a pair of eyeglasses for hands-free viewing of information from Tablet PCs and laptops, as well as a developer's kit that uses Bluetooth to project images. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Hotels Don't See IT Return from Wi-Fi. Hotels like Starwood chain not seeing the IT return from deploying Wi-Fi: It makes sense that Wi-Fi deployments could help run hotels, which have many mobile workers in their confines, as well as provide access to customers. This story says no, ain't the case, at least for Starwood, an ownership company that has several brands among its properties. John Yunker of Pyramid Research told me a few days ago, however, the exact contrary, that internal applications could end up being the killer application for hotels. The Royal Sonestra in Boston, he said, is giving Wi-Fi-enabled handhelds to the housekeeping and security staff.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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Qualcomm, Broadcom team on Bluetooth. Wireless-technology company Qualcomm and communications-chipmaker Broadcom announce a deal both say will yield more North American cell phones that use the wireless standard. [CNET News.com]
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Broadband use continues strong growth. The number of U.S. consumers with high-speed access to the Internet reaches nearly 40 million as people continue to shed slower dial-up services, according to a study. [CNET News.com]
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Canny Antenna Design. It's a step up from the days of enthusiast orders, now WISPs and hotspot operators are starting to use Wireless Garden's low-cost Pringles-can-inspired antennas. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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PC Makers Parade New Notebooks. Several major PC manufacturers rolled out new laptops this week. Among them: two using Intel's Centrino wireless package; one that doubles as a personal video recorder (PVR); one that breaks the 3GHz mark; and one that integrates a GPRS radio, allowing the notebook to be used over cellular phone networks. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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TI Moves Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Closer. Texas Instruments is introducing a coexistence packages made up of Bluetooth and 802.11 silicon that will work simultaneously while in the same device. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Analysts Say Wi-Fi Complementary to Telecoms. Contrary to established views that Wi-Fi will cannibalize both wireline broadband and cellular services, analysts say the technologies are complementary. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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SAP and eBay hook up in online marketplace. SAP AG customers will be able to use existing business software with a new, integrated auction management system to sell excess inventory, used equipment and other assets on eBay. [Computerworld News]
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U.S. plans GSM-based Iraqi cell phone network. The move would give companies access to one of the biggest mobile markets in the Arab world, and is expected to take six months to build. [Computerworld News]
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Microsoft identifies with RFID tag organization [IDG InfoWorld]
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The universal client.
The game of Web services is played by passing around XML documents. Office 2003 will be the superior technology for writing/editing (InfoPath) and analyzing (Excel) such documents, but in many cases users will be searching, viewing, tweaking, approving, and routing. It's a huge win if we can use Web standards to do these things in a lightweight, cross-browser, cross-platform way. We've waited so long for this moment to come. AOL, please don't screw it up. If you don't get why this matters, turn Mozilla over to an organization that does. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]
... [Jon's Radio]
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4G to the rescue?. With a stunning lack of corporate enthusiasm for wide area wireless, carriers are looking at the next generation to spur adoption [InfoWorld: Top News]
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iPass Version 3. iPass releases version 3 of their aggregation/VPN software for worldwide roaming, iPassConnect: iPass briefed me last week on their new software, which improves the interface, clarifies choosing among different kinds of connections (dial-up, a cell sub-type, broadband wired, and Wi-Fi), and adds more corporate protection features. iPass has partnerships with hundreds of ISPs in 150 countries, including 16,000 POPs (dial-in numbers) and 2,000 broadband wired and wireless locations. iPass sells their service directly to corporations, or through value-added resellers to smaller groups and even individuals. The iPassConnect client allows access to dial-up, wired, and wireless ISPs while traveling the globe at fixed hourly rates depending on the region and type of connectivity. Hourly rates are capped at a maximum day rate for certain types of services, like Wi-Fi. iPass builds no infrastructure. For the rest of this longer story, please follow the next link... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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Tropos Gets Intel Funding. Tropos Networks gets undisclosed investment from Intel Capital's wireless sub-fund: Tropos, until recently called FHP Wireless, makes mesh-based hot spot hardware intended for hot zone creation with popped-in back haul only in spots for outdoor and enterprise deployment. The Tropos approach allows two wireless cards in a single AP, one for inter-access point mesh communication, and the other for local Wi-Fi service. (You can combine these with a single card, but lose substantial throughput through channel overlap and backhaul communication.)... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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TI Says, We Can All Just Get Along?. Texas Instruments brings together Bluetooth, Wi-Fi without interference: TI has designed a set of chips that have co-existence in mind, especially focusing on maintaing voice-quality Bluetooth-based conversations while using Wi-Fi for data transport. A TI spokesperson wrote in to advise me that these chips comply to the Personal Area Network co-existence set of best practices developed by the IEEE: 802.15.2. He noted that 802.15.2 isn't a standard, but rather recommendations... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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Microsoft, Cisco Prove Current AP Model Doesn't Scale. Microsoft has 3,700 access points deployed worldwide for their enterprises, and finds that managing them is a bear: Of course, they're using Cisco APs, but they're not using Cisco's WLSE for controlling the configuration of hundreds of APs at once. Cisco's own network of 3,000 APs is segregated into virtual LANs per building for ease of roaming because their technology doesn't allow policy-level management control across aggregations of APs only (obviously) across switches.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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Bluetooth v 1.2. Bluetooth gets revised: The new versions has some small and large improvements, including incorporating the co-existence recommendations for adaptive frequency hopping so that Bluetooth and other standards like Wi-Fi can play nicely together.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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Technology Elite Are Focusing Next on Human Body. With the aid of a growing number of technological tools, people can now know far more than ever before about the state of their health. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology]
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U.S. plans GSM-based Iraqi cell phone network. The move would give companies access to one of the biggest mobile markets in the Arab world, and is expected to take six months to build. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
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Wireless officials at GSM World Congress say operators shouldn't think about 100 percent penetration rates -- they should be thinking about 300 percent.
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An anonymous reader writes "Network Magazine asks 'Are We Better Off Without 3G?' in which the author notes that many networkers are giving up on 3G as a data services alternative due to high deployment costs and slower speeds vs. Wi-Fi.
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