Wednesday, June 25, 2003|
Wi-Fi Industry Backs Microsoft Mobile Software. The software giant's announcement of a new PDA operating system with mobility software has garnered support from Wi-Fi and hotspot companies like Boingo, Wayport, T-Mobile, PCTEL, and Socket Communications. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 3:56:48 PM  comment
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Voice Over Wi-Fi Gaining Momentum. As Internet telephony gains acceptance in the enterprise, and voice over Wi-Fi is deployed in corporations across the U.S., equipment manufacturers and consultants are salivating at the prospect of additional sales, but large ISPs and wireless carriers lack enthusiasm. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 3:56:31 PM comment
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InfoWorld: All US flights to have e-mail by 2004. Here's the downside:
Boeing's Connexion high speed connection service makes much more sense (although I couldn't find any pricing for it). Also, given the rate Boeing is losing contracts to Airbus, we may never see it. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] |
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Wired News: Design According to Ive. Ive couldn't help himself. Design is his vocation. Get him started, and he'll talk at length with great sincerity and enthusiasm about the design of something as deceptively simple as a latch for an access panel. [Tomalak's Realm] 3:55:53 PM comment
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Windows Mobile 2003. Microsoft makes Wi-Fi one of PocketPC's centerpieces: Although PocketPCs were well in advance of Palm's Wi-Fi connectivity, Microsoft never seemed to seize this advantage by offering tools to make it easy to connect to Wi-Fi networks. I owned a Toshiba e740 with integrated Wi-Fi for a few months, but sold it because it was so frustrating to roam and connect with it. Finding networks, entering keys, managing the process -- lightyears of pain away from Windows XP's relative ease. Also, like XP, the PocketPC software lacked a profile manager or location manager: each time you switched networks, you had to re-enter information. Boingo released a client for PocketPC, but it only supported certain models. (Also, Boingo has changed its zero-cost approach: to sign up for Boingo, you have to pay $7.95, which includes two initial connection sessions, so you can no longer just use Boingo as your profile manager without that ponying up.) Microsoft's announcement today of the Windows Mobile 2003 software for PocketPC is an attempt to make the connection process as simple as it should be. The new client supports all the doodads necessarily for corporate connections, including VPN support and 802.1x client configuration. It looks like it might support multiple network profiles, but the information on the site is scanty and the so-called demo doesn't elaborate much. Part of the launch includes promotions with T-Mobile, Wayport, and Boingo for 30 days free service. It would almost be worth buying a PocketPC for the month and signing up on all three services to test them out -- just remember to cancel before 30 days is up! The free offer pages for each service don't list any limitations on top of "free." (One site I visited recently defines "unlimited" as 150 connections per month.) Boingo released a beta of its Boingo Software for Windows Mobile 2003 today.... [Wi-Fi Networking News] 3:54:39 PM comment
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Vivato's Latest Funding. Vivato receives $45 million in additional funding: If there ever was a question that the company had enough cash to ramp up for enterprise-scale deployment and convince corporations that it would be around long enough for them to buy antennas, this probably quashed it. The company has taken in nearly $70M in several rounds.... [Wi-Fi Networking News] 3:52:00 PM comment
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Smart, networked sensors will soon be all around us, collectively processing vast amounts of previously unrecorded data to help run factories, maintain crops, and even watch for earthquakes. 1:59:34 PM comment
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Venture capitalists specializing in communications investments have taken notice of 802.11 startups, saying demand for the technology will make the firms attractive takeover targets or IPO candidates. 1:57:30 PM comment
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The history of interactive media only yields two applications that might be described as killers: email and SMS. The adoption of all other technologies has proceeded by a much less exciting mechanism: the gradual accretion of reasons to buy until one thing acts as the clincher. And it's here that Demos touches on a vital issue for 3G growth: the need for better understanding of what mobile services can do. 1:55:14 PM comment
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Forget Wi-Fi. The real wireless revolution is being driven by the cell phone -- and is already creating rich opportunities for huge players and small startups alike. 1:52:59 PM comment
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