Thursday, December 12, 2002

from 802.11b Networking News re The New York Times special Wi-Fi package: Thursday's New York Times Circuits section devotes several articles to aspects of Wi-Fi, including two by your humble editor. This five-article chunk is the spiritual heir to my Feburary 2001 cover story in Circuits on public hot spots that, I say without an ego, first introduced the subject of pay-for-access Wi-Fi everywhere to a broad audience. That first article had to explain the technology and its limits as well as paint a picture of what was to come. Interestingly, despite all the bankruptcies and changes in business model, nearly two years later we find several companies continuing to build out public hot spots with more to come, and a very mature and ostensibly moneymaking consumer and business hardware market. [Source: 80211b News; 12/12/02; 4:21:10 AM] New York Times SPECIAL REPORT The Wi-Fi Boom By ADAM BAER The wireless networking system called Wi-Fi seems to be turning up everywhere, letting computer users go online in parks and coffeehouses. * State of the Art: A Tool Kit for a Wireless Network * Basics: Tapping Into Public Wireless Networks * So Many Nodes, so Little Security 6:19:57 AM

Indian Villagers Pedal Wireless. A communications and transportation network -- which includes 5,000 young men toting wireless phones on bicycles -- promises finally to bring India's rural areas into the digital age. Anuradha Kumar reports from Kolkata. [Wired News] 6:10:40 AM

China floors pedal in DSL race. Vrooooom! [The Register] With around two million DSL lines, China is now the fifth largest country behind South Korea, the US, Japan and Germany. Analysts believe at its current growth rate China is likely to become the biggest broadband country in the next couple of years. 4:50:02 AM

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