Friday, October 28, 2005

Rio Rancho, N.M. Completes Massive Wi-Fi Network Rio Rancho, N.M., Completes Massive Network. The New Mexico network is effectively complete: The network covers 40 square miles. The folks involved claim its the largest contiguous Wi-Fi network in the nation--they hedge it with likely--and that's a tricky distinction. There are probably several larger networks, but do they have 100-percent coverage across the area? They're generally not designed for that parameter. The network has used 400 pre-WiMax and Wi-Fi radios to provide Wi-Fi coverage, and their early goals are education and homeland security (read: immigration control), and they will phase in municipal access, public safety, and libraries. [Wi-Fi Networking News] 8:50:08 PM

Mike Arrington RSS Feed, CrunchNotes My New Blog. I’ve launched a new companion blog to TechCrunch called CrunchNotes. I wrote a longish introductory post describing exactly why it exists (and why TechCrunch exists), but here’s the essence: So, why am I starting CrunchNotes? The main reason is that I find that sometimes, I want to talk about more than just new companies and products. Sometimes I have something to say about what's going on in the blogosphere or the world. Sometimes I want to link to something interesting another blogger has written, but which has nothing to do with new companies. I found that doing that on TechCrunch tends to dilute the core value of that blog. Yeah, I just quoted myself. Sorry. It won’t happen again. If you are interested in reading CrunchNotes, here’s the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/crunchnotes. Thanks to Fred Oliveira, who designed CrunchNotes (and TechCrunch). Tags: crunchnotes, techcrunch, web2.0, web+2.0 [TechCrunch] 8:39:14 PM