[OCCalWUG] News that's changing the Wireless World! Tuesday, October 21, 2003 Source: Wi-Fi Networking News Wi-Fi and GSM Convergence Possibility Detailed article on how GSM and Wi-Fi might find themselves together in future chips: It's a fairly technical article, but it does point out the difficulties and some of the opportunities in merging cell and Wi-Fi at the chip level instead of building devices with many chips. The bottom line appears to be that there's some cost and materials savings but only for the most compact and battery-sensitive devices. [via The Head Lemur]... Source Link 12:04:58 PM    comment [] Source: Fool News Texas Still Rocks TI's strong results are driven by growth in wireless markets. Source Link 11:43:45 AM    comment [] Source: eWEEK Technology News iPass Service Enforces VPN Policies iPass Inc. today will broaden its virtual network services portfolio to give CIOs the ability to automatically enforce connection policies for mobile workers. Source Link 11:43:44 AM    comment [] Source: Ziff Davis PDAs for Your Wireless Network Looking for a PDA with wireless networking? We'll show you nine new 802.11-based PDAs, and tell you how to configure wireless networking for both Pocket PC and Palm Operating Systems. Source Link 11:22:25 AM    comment [] Source: Extremetech PDAs for Your Wireless Network Looking for a PDA with wireless networking? We'll show you nine new 802.11-based PDAs, and tell you how to configure wireless networking for both Pocket PC and Palm Operating Systems. Source Link 11:22:24 AM    comment [] Source: C|Net SBC sees surge in DSL subscribers SBC Communications reports a 13 percent gain in its broadband customer base, as the Baby Bells struggle to compete against cable. Source Link 11:02:14 AM    comment [] Source: C|Net Study: Hottest hotspots in Asia-Pacific New research shows that commercial hotspot availability around the globe has increased substantially in 2003, with the Asia-Pacific region ahead of the U.S. market. Source Link 10:06:53 AM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Planet Vocera Pumps Up Wireless Security The company adds support for additional security protocols and a slew of other new features in the latest release of its voice over Wi-Fi system. Source Link 9:04:04 AM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Networking News Vivato's "News" Vivato announces new product...that they announced in June: I'm confused about Vivato's press push yesterday, which makes it sound like their new inexpensive ($495) gateway box is a new product. It hasn't shipped before now -- it will in November -- but they were discussing it publicly back in June. I suppose this is the real unveiling at CTIA or IT Wireless this week. Nonetheless, the box is quite interesting, an outgrowth of Jim Thompson's work at Musenki. It supports Wireless Distribution System, and is meant as a dead spot filler and back-haul box which can complement the full Vivato switch product.... Source Link 6:58:07 AM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Networking News Vivato Founders Bring Technology to Alma Mater If Case Western's plan to open its wireless network to the community weren't enough, they now have some Vivato gear: Courtesy of the founders of Vivato, both Case Western alumni, the OneCleveland program now covers an entire park in University Circle. Cleveland has an extensive fiber-optic infrastructure -- perhaps all major cities do after the wave of Gilder-inspired overbuilding in 90's? -- and a variety of groups including the university plan to extend access for digital divide spanning and other purposes.... Source Link 6:47:36 AM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Networking News SanDisk is Shipping SD 802.11b Cards SanDisk announced its secure digital (SD) 802.11b cards, but they're now widely available: SD slots are found in many Palm handhelds and other small devices, despite the increasing standardization around CompactFlash format cards. SD cards are tiny, making it a pretty neat tour de force to put Wi-Fi into one.... Source Link 6:47:34 AM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Networking News Roaming by the Megabyte Austria's Metronet continues to expand international roaming for its hot spot network -- by the megabyte: This is one of the most interesting of the roaming models I've seen. Metronet operates 300 hot spots in Austria, and has roaming agreements now that give its users access to 1,200 locations throughout Europe and elsewhere, including its most recent partners, SoneraHomerun (Finland), megabeam (Italy), Kubiwirless (Spain), and VEX (Argentina). While it's a single account login for its users on all of the roaming networks -- which they expect will exceed 2,000 locations by year's end -- there's a per-megabyte fee of 70 European cents or 1 Euro, depending on your plan. Metronet also offers a PPTP-based VPN service for its customers.... Source Link 6:37:04 AM    comment [] © 2003 [OCCalWUG] Last Update: 11/1/2003; 11:29:47 AM

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