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This guy has some good ideas. Now lets address once you arrive at your destination, how about the Rental Car business?

FC Now reader Peter Davidson offers some excellent ideas to improve the airline industry: Eliminate Checked Baggage This would save huge amounts of time and money by eliminating baggage handling crews and equipment. Baggage compartments can be modified to hold... [Fast Company Now]



Britons are downloading three times as many web pages on their cell phones this year as last, some 28.5 million pages a day, according to the Mobile Data Association (MDA). Meanwhile, their use of SMS (simple message system) text messaging has remained flat in that same period. The increase in mobile web activity is good news for the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), which was much hyped in the late '90s but has taken longer to gain traction than many analysts had expected. BBC reports. Rick Bruner comments.

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I'm not aware of any WLAN's here in the Denver Metro area that either DPS or Jeffco are running, and then again it's not something that's been on my radar. Since I'm involved in our 14 year olds school I'll look into this.

A school district is sued in Illinois over planning a WLAN without addressing a group of parents' concerns over electromagnetic radiation's effects: I'll be curious for feedback on this. The suit says that there's a pile of credible evidence, and cites 30 studies (citations not included in this document, unfortunately) that connect EMR at high frequencies and signal strengths comparable to WLANs to health problems. I'm unaware of these. The lawsuit also says there are no regulations after 1993 that relate to EMR and its only about thermal emissions even up to that point. My reading of EPA and FCC regulations indicates otherwise. Anybody up for friends of the court briefs or more elucidation on whether this suit has merit? I wonder if the FCC or EPA would get involved in this suit in order to avoid setting a precedent (with settlement or loss) that would affect the ability of Part 15 devices to be deployed?... [802.11b Networking News]



This was a no-brainer.

The San Francisco Chronicle has an excellent article on how Apple's iSight video camera and iChat AV software are helping to change the lives of people in the deaf community... [MacMinute]



The company's data-downloading software gets a boost from a Japanese firm, which plans to use it to launch a corporate e-mail service. It'll be a first trip behind the corporate firewall for BREW. [CNET News.com]


 
 

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