Monday, May 24, 2004

Wardriving a Zip Code and Looking at Demographics Wardriving a Zip Code and Looking at Demographics. "A writer becomes curious about his California Zip code's Wi-Fi penetration, and creates a map: Lee Gomes of The Wall Street Journal drives around for hours, picks up 3,000 hotspots in a population of 70,000 households, and then maps the results against income. His conclusion: Wi-Fi has become so ubiquitous in urban areas that even though it's not linked together, we have practically a seamless network already. (Tie that idea in with community mesh, and you've got ubiquitous access.)" [link via Brian Chin]... [Wi-Fi Networking News] 3:33:36 PM    comment []

Yet Another Switcher Story Information Week has this sidebar to a story on Linux going mainstream: 'Suppose I upgrade to Windows 2003 and Windows XP. What would I be able to do then that I can't do with my current boxes? Nothing. I don't need all of the collaborative features,' Hentzen says. Watch for more and more of these stories in the coming months. 10:12:37 AM    comment []

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