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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Tuesday, November 18, 2003 |
Source: eWEEK Technology News
Nosy Wi-Fi Neighbors
The rise in home wireless networks has apparently spawned a new variety of Peeping Toms.
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11:43:11 PM 
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Source: Userland.com
AT&T Wireless Jumps Into Data Arms Race
AT&T Wireless weighed into the mobile Internet arms race with a national upgrade to its mobile data network that will enable laptop connections at twice the speed of dial-up access.
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11:23:21 PM
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Source: eWEEK Technology News
AT&T's Zeglis Expounds on Wireless Plans
In a Comdex keynote address, AT&T Wireless CEO John Zeglis said past hype cost the industry credibility. Insead, the key to wireless success will be found in delivering realistic promises.
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5:38:21 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Minor League Baseball, Others Get Wi-Fi
Newsweek's general Wi-Fi article highlights some places Wi-Fi is popping up, including a minor league field in Sacramento: For now, stadium workers use the network to control lights and heating from their handheld computers and box seat owners can use the network. In the future, the stadium hopes to let all fans order food wirelessly....
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5:27:26 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Look Out Airport Networks...
JetBlue Airways is offering free Wi-Fi to folks hanging out in its departure gates in Terminal 6 in New York's JFK Airport: The airline also offers the free Wi-Fi in its hub, the LA/Long Beach airport. If more airlines start doing this, it will be interesting to watch what happens to the companies that are already offering fee-based services in airports. That seems to be a big business, with hotspot providers signing exclusive deals with airports. I wonder what sort of rights airlines have to build Wi-Fi networks in the gates they often use. Glenn has heard from some folks in the industry that airports are starting to assert rights to spectrum that they previously left alone, or encoding these rights in new contracts as airline leases expire....
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5:27:24 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Broadcom Surprised at Atheros Allegation Attention
Wi-Fi Planet writes about the Broadcom claims on Atheros's Super G turbo mode: This is only the second story I've seen (following Nancy and my report for PC World that she mentions in an item earlier today) on the claim Broadcom has made about Atheros's 108 Mbps mode degrading networks running at slower speeds. Broadcom told me that they would demonstrating their test setup at Comdex, and I haven't heard any reports back on that yet, nor have they released the methodology of their tests, which is still promised....
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5:27:23 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Lucent Chases Wi-Fi Backhaul Market
Lucent said it is working with InMotion to make sure InMotion's gear interoperates with Lucent's CDMA networks: InMotion supplies Wi-Fi networks on trains and can use the wide area networks for backhaul. Now Lucent has made sure that InMotion's gear will work with Lucent-built CDMA networks in North America. Last week Lucent made a similar deal with Top Global. Looks like Lucent is trying to take the lead promoting wide area networks as good options for backhaul for Wi-Fi networks. It will take some time before the mobile Wi-Fi networks will be able to offer a broadband service using a wide area network for backhaul given how slow the wide area networks are to date in most areas....
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5:17:24 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Another NetGear 108Mbps AP
NetGear introduced an AP designed for small or medium businesses that can deliver 108Mbps throughput: NetGear uses the Atheros chip that Glenn and I reported on for PC World at the end of last week. Broadcom claims the Atheros chip causes extreme performance degradation in nearby Wi-Fi networks. I tried hard to speak to a NetGear spokesperson for the PC World article but they weren't able to dig anyone up for me. It's somewhat amusing that the NetGear folks sent us the press release about a new 108Mbps product with no reference to our repeated conversations last week regarding the PC World article....
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5:17:23 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Fully Wi-Fi Enabled Grade School
While parents of some students in Illinois schools are concerned about potential health affects of Wi-Fi, one school in New York requires every kid to have a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop: Students use the laptops in every class and Columbia University is studying how the program works. I’ll be interested to see how laptops are eventually used throughout the school system. Teachers at this New York school rave about the additional skills they can teach kids because of the laptops but also note the added distractions in games and the Internet. It must be difficult to control how the computers are used during class....
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5:17:21 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
AT&T Puts EDGE Everywhere
AT&T Wireless said at Comdex today that EDGE is in 6,500 cities: EDGE is 2.5G service that extends GPRS's 10 to 50 Kpbs up to the 100 Kbps or faster range. EDGE has been gradually appearing, and Cingular had promised a full deployment probably by mid-2004. AT&T's announcement seems like a slight surprise. AT&T is offering unlimited EDGE (and by extension, GPRS in any areas that don't have EDGE support) for $80/month. A card costs $150 after rebate for a two-year service commitment. AT&T said that they'd also offer and support the Nokia 6200 EDGE phone which can be used with a laptop or as a cell phone. EDGE is available outside the U.S. on AT&T's network in Puerto Rico and Bermuda, as well as Vancouver, British Columbia. The plan is to expand throughout Canada in 2004. (As a Cingular subscriber, this is precisely the kind of thing that could get me to switch -- especially if that PC Card from Sony Ericsson has Mac OS X drivers.)...
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1:15:52 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Switches in the Trenches
Enterprise IT Week is under way at the Las Vegas tradeshows, and the wireless industry switch vendors and others at the shows (and some not) have plenty to report, especially deals for overseas expansion.
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12:11:41 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Reading Vivato's Tea Leaves
Vivato gets switch approved, makes interesting statement: It's rare that reading a press release gives you insight into a company's direction, but given some of our earlier postings on this site about Vivato and the fact that we hadn't seen press releases mentioning major businesses, ISPs, or institutions, the announcement of FCC approval of their Wi-Fi Bridge/Router product (dual radios, $495) gives one pause. The VP of marketing, Phil Belanger, says in the press release, The FCC approval gives us the green light to offer customers a complete line of standardized Wi-Fi solutions. This statement makes it sound like the bridge/router is more critical to Vivato's operations than might be suspected....
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8:48:13 AM
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