Wide-area wireless broadband targets Wi-Fi. With interest in wireless connectivity growing, proponents of wide-area mobile broadband and Wi-Fi technology are trying to win over end users. [Computerworld News]

A group of investors including Time Warner, Comcast and Shaw invested about $4.0 million in SkyStream, a company that develops IP-Video delivery systems based on a Gigabit Ethernet switching architecture. SkyStream apparently has a number of U.S. patents including several in the area of bandwidth optimization for delivery of IP-video and data services.

 

Dave Winer investigated a new open source search engine called Nutch.

DaveNet: Nutch, an open source search engine. [Scripting News]