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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Monday, October 06, 2003 |
Source: DevX
Mobile Wireless Applications—Whats the Best Way to Write Them?
Both Microsoft (with .NET Compact Framework) and Sun (with J2ME) offer powerful development frameworks and runtime environments for writing mobile applications. Let's take a look at these two systems, as well as at some of Intel's performance and tuning tools for mobile wireless applications.
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11:50:35 PM 
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Source: Computer World
Cisco Reiterates WLAN Threat
After getting word of plans to release a tool that can be used to attack Cisco's user authentication technology for wireless LANs, the company said it would release a second security notice that will have "more visibility" than the first one, issued in August.
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9:13:37 PM
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Source: C|Net
Nokia debuts cell phone gaming device
The handheld game player is also a cell phone, but live, head-to-head action only takes place for now using a Bluetooth wireless connection, which has a range of just a few feet.
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5:57:15 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Boingo inside Linksys?
Linksys's VPN wireless gateway, the WRV54G, has setting to turn unit into Boingo hot spot: I was unaware of this feature this feature in the new $230 VPN gateway....
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4:32:46 PM
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Source: C|Net
Court rejects FCC cable ruling
A federal appeals court rejects the Federal Communications Commission's opinion that cable broadband services should not be regulated like phone companies.
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4:22:15 PM
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Source: C|Net
Spotting hot spots with a cell phone
The Wi-Fi Alliance announces an application that lets people with cell phones or other devices that use the Wireless Application Protocol wirelessly search for nearby hot spots.
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1:18:55 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Consumer Cards Turned Rogue Detectors
Could a new scheme by WLAN management software maker Wavelink turn all existing 802.11 cards into rogue monitoring systems? The potential is there with an initial partnership with D-Link, but a lack of standards in WLAN data gathering means it may not go far.
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1:08:25 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
School District Sued over WLAN Planning
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?...
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11:28:09 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
802.16a Around the Bend
Canadian company Redline Communications says it has the first product that complies with 802.16a: The standard covers non-line-of-site metropolitan area networking using the 2 to 11 GHz range which includes licensed and unlicensed frequencies. Redline says its gear will deliver 70 Mbps throughput as far as 30 kilometers. Companies have been trying to use wireless to deliver Internet access to homes and businesses for ages it seems but have always failed (remember LMDS and MMDS?). Those folks struggled because it was tough to find good non line of site gear at a reasonable price that could be installed simply. We'll see if these new standards solve some of those old problems....
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11:28:07 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Colubris Aims for the Feds
Colubris says it's certified to be used by government agencies: The maker of fat access points claims to be the only AP that has achieved the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 certification. FIPS is a standard made by the U.S. and Canadian governments that sets how cryptographic software and data encryption must work in gear used by government bodies. Colubris touts the added security that it builds into APs. It's unique for terminating IPsec VPNs at the AP. Colubris says that's a way to offload traffic from an existing VPN concentrator and allow an enterprise to re-use security profiles that are already set up for users getting on the LAN....
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11:11:40 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Cell Phones Find Hot Spots
The Wi-Fi Alliance has a service that lets cell phone users find nearby hot spots: Cell phone users can search by city through a list of the 6,000 sites that are part of the alliance's Wi-Fi Zone program....
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11:11:38 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Primed for Voice
A company called Meru Networks introduced an AP and controller aimed at supporting voice over WLAN: The system includes a QOS mechanism that gives priority to voice. Meru also uses a similar method as AirFlow to essentially eliminate the time it takes to hand off a call from one AP to the next, which currently takes too long to support a voice call. Meru and AirFlow do that by associating clients to a single MAC that lives back in the network at the controller. That way clients don't have to re-associate with each new AP because there's only one MAC to associate with. I suspect Meru is greatly exaggerating how many users can use a single AP at once. It says that one of its APs can support as many as 100 users. Most vendors say that today their APs can support 10 simultaneous voice calls but will usually concede that half that number is realistic. Meru would have to be doing something pretty radical to improve the number of simultaneous users that dramatically....
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11:11:37 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Boingo's Funding
Boingo secures Series B Funding: $10M: Questions are often raised about whether Boingo will be successful. We don't know the answer to that, especially with early investor Sprint PCS choosing to derive their aggregator software from iPass's Connect product instead of Boingo's software. But there's no doubt Boingo has staying power. The company reports having raised $30 million since inception, and have money to finance themselves until 2006. The question now is with money in the bank, can they more aggressively convince telecom partners that the Boingo platform is the right one to move forward on with cell/Wi-Fi roaming/single bill capability? T-Mobile said yes months ago; we're waiting to see the fruits of that collaboration. SBC and Cingular are the likely next target. Now, where's that Mac OS X software?...
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10:40:06 AM
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