Monday, July 21, 2003

Sony Breaks Ground With New PDA. Sony's latest Clié handheld computer packs a lot in an eye-catching, sleek, compact form factor. Sony was able to do so with a new proprietary chip that analysts have praised as groundbreaking. But will customers pay $700 for it? By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
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The hacker's wireless toolbox: part 2. This is part 2 of a two-part series in which AirDefense's Brian Moran details what different sorts of attacks on WLANs look like and what can be done about them [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
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Verizon and Sprint: Wi-Fi plus 2.5G. Keep your chickens in different baskets is Verizon Wireless's policy and SprintPCS extends to Wi-Fi: The first article confirms early announcements by Verizon Wireless to offer its high-speed 1xEvDO (evolution data-only) cellular data service in San Diego and Washington, D.C., and that it will offer Wi-Fi access on a complementary (not complimentary) basis to cell customers using Wayport's network, among others. Interestingly, since Verizon's DSL business is installing hot spot service for its customers, you'd think that the wireless division would want or would announce that it would have access to it, as well. A spokesperson told me there's no current plan to link the Verizon Communications and Verizon Wireless Wi-Fi access. The second article unveils SprintPCS's plans to launch Wi-Fi service to complement their 2.5G service in partnership with Wayport (500+ hot spots) and AirPath (300+). Interestingly, SprintPCS predicts 2,100 locations by year's end. SprintPCS is a Boingo investor, and no mention of Boingo in these releases. Boingo currently includes over 1,200 hot spots, 500 of those being Wayport locations. No pricing information has been announced on either front. Clearly, this leaves Cingular, my cell phone provider, the odd man out. T-Mobile has its HotSpot division. AT&T Wireless has GoPort. SprintPCS and Verizon Wireless now have their plans. I'm not sure what Nextel plans to do yet, but they haven't been opposed to Wi-Fi.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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IBM ASP'ifies Siebel CRM. Flogging subs over the Web [The Register]
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NY Times: Apple Co-Founder Creates Electronic ID Tags. ...Mr. Wozniak described WozNet as a simple and inexpensive wireless network that uses radio signals and global positioning satellite data to keep track of a cluster of inexpensive tags within a one- or two-mile radius of each base station. [Tomalak's Realm]
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But Revenues Will Not Keep Pace, Leading to Industry Consolidation

According to a new Pyramid Research report, Worldwide Wi-Fi, the next five years will see global Wi-Fi usage grow at a record pace, reaching 707 million users in 2008.
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Linksys and Centrino to Work Closely. Cisco's Linksys division has entered a deal with Intel to not only cross promote products from the two companies, but to make them work together as seamlessly as possible. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Sprint jumps into public-access Wi-Fi. Sprint has embraced public-access Wi-Fi and plans to provide users with software allowing them to easily switch from its cellular network to Wi-Fi. [Computerworld News]
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