Wednesday, April 9, 2003

Winston-Salem To Offer Free Wireless 04-09-2003 Winston-Salem - Winston-Salemís Information Systems Department today announced plans to offer free wireless access to the Internet along Fourth Street. Officials believe it will be the first government-sponsored, free public-access ìhotspotî in North Carolina, said Dennis Newman, the cityís chief information officer. Jack Steelman, the cityís director of downtown development, said, ìThis should prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this city is serious when we say we intend to become a city that is attractive to young people. More and more we are seeing that young professional people decide where they want to live based on the quality of life in the area, and then go look for a job, and we intend to put Winston-Salem on that map.î comments? [] 11:07:18 PM     New Products: TRENDware shipping 802.11b outdoor router Posted by Tim [ 2003-04-08 14:04:19 ]      TRENDware has started shipping its TEW-212APBO 11Mbps Wireless Outdoor AP Bridge w/Router. The combines a multi-mode 802.11b router with a 10dBi Flat Panel Antenna housed in an IP66-compliant weatherproofed enclosure. The enclosure has a built-in heater for cold-weather operation and the unit is powered via 802.3af-compliant Power-Over-Ethernet. The TEW-212APBO supports AP, AP Client, AP Router, and Bridging Modes, 64 and 128 bit WEP encryption and can be managed via FTP, SNMP (v1, v2), TELNET, and Web Browser interfaces. The product is available now at a suggested list of $799. from http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/News_story_169.php comments? [] 10:53:41 PM     OK so groove/radio interop works Jon Schull: but I'm still confused. My Discussion tool now contains the aggregated news. This is not bad. But does that mean that the same tool contains the posts I write and the posts I aggregate? Apparently so.  How do it know? Wait.  Its a feature.  http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/stories/2003/04/0023.html comments? [] 10:49:00 PM     The public wireless digital commons TV's Future. [Wifi at Topicexchange]. via Richard Giles blog: As an extension to my networked/streaming video DVD and TV posts, Cringley writes about the future of TV. Then we can combine technical trends. The next 12 months, for example, will see an avalanche of WiFi and HomePlug products intended to network not just computers but also televisions, home theaters, and audio. .... In the article The Future of TV, he points out that bandwidth isn't, and may not be in the near term, able to provide high quality video on demand over the Internet. That may be, so Disney is taking a different approach, called Datacasting, with a new service it will launch soon called Movie Beam. The approach is a smart one. Datacasting uses a part of the spectrum allocated to Digital TV channels that they don't use. New movies will be sent to a set top box and stored on a local drive. It won't stream the video as you play because the bandwidth won't be great enough, but with the ability to store 100 movies locally, it won't matter because you would have instant choice. Disney preps wireless video service , at C|Net. [Ecademy : Aggregated News]   This is precisely the model I presented to local and national public television stations a year and a half ago.  Suppose there were caching access points in each classroom, pre-loaded with digital video of the sort public broadcasters produce so well and are paid with government funds and contributions to disseminate ....   There is a natural alliance between public broadcasters and public wifi, and together they could create a political and social force to make the free public digital commons a public amenity.    PBS, NPR, CPB, PRI...  is this thing on??? comments? [] 10:42:51 PM     Pyramid Asks, What Happens When Pricing Drops?. John Yunker of Pyramid Research notes that even optimistic projections of venue revenue today for hot spots relies on pricing staying constant over time: The latest free Wi-Fi newsletter from Pyramid covers some of the latest news, but leads off with Yunker's analysis of dropping prices from the venue's standpoint. He says, Current revenue share models value the network far greater than the location. I say, the hot spot business is about real estate and software, not about the technology.  [Wi-Fi Networking News] comments? [] 10:27:57 PM     Teaching in the Wireless Cloud. Smart Mobs blogger Bryan Alexander -- an educational practitioner as well as a commentator on what is being called "m-learning" -- has written an article for TheFeature on the subject of Teaching in the Wireless Cloud [Smart Mobs] comments? [] 10:16:31 PM     Test from Groove interop Jon Schull: how we doing? comments? [] 1:00:46 AM

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