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Friday, October 03, 2003

Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Hotspot Hits
The latest in the land of public access Wi-Fi: Apple (was) looking for a hotspot evangelist, Starbucks is offering Wi-Fi users the Blues, and more.
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1:13:05 PM

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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
First 802.16a Product to Debut This Month
Companies wanting to deploy wireless connectivity across cities and rural areas may not have to wait too much longer for 802.16a-compliant products.
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1:07:06 PM

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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Bluesocket Racks up Customers
Bluesocket says it won 160 new customers in the third quarter: Looks like that means organizations are growing satisfied with the security that a Bluesocket can add to a WLAN. Bluesocket scored some pretty big name customers—Del Monte, NASA, the Weather Channel plus some healthcare organizations. Well, I may be a bit overambitious by saying that enterprises are satisifed with available security patches for WLANs. This Infonetics study shows that concern over security is still slowing down adoption of WLANs in the enterprise. Nonetheless, the firm expects to see nearly $3 billion in spending in end-user spending on WLAN products by 2007. An IDC study also notes that WLAN acceptance in the enterprise is still slow. A Gartner analyst attributes the slow take-up to security concerns plus the lack of built-in Wi-Fi in the majority of laptops in use today....
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10:09:17 AM

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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Direct2Data Extends Range
Direct2Data says its products can extend the range of Wi-Fi to a mile: This article isn't very forthcoming about how the company gets this added range, although apparently it's not through smart antenna technology. Users with a PC card from D2D can get the boosted range even if the AP isn't from the same company....
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10:09:16 AM

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