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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Doctor, Doctor, It Hurts When I Wi-Fi
Florida plastic surgeon offers free Wi-Fi for patients: The doctor has thought about security. They use a firewall and other details to protect patient privacy, and rotate their security key....
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11:19:03 PM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
New York Public Library Offers Free Wi-Fi
Fifty-three libraries in the Bronx and Manhattan will offer free Wi-Fi access: The libraries will provide filtered Internet access and full-text searching on the database they've licensed. Alert librarian Jenny Levine notes that the service filtered but the library's initial disclosure is inadequate....
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10:27:45 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
The Food? The Wine? The Wi-Fi!
Restaurant reviews mentions the Wi-Fi before the food and service: It might become de rigeur to mention the Wi-Fi (or lack thereof) when you review a restaurant in an urban area....
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10:27:44 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Rocketing Up the Charts
The popularity of Wi-Fi in the home hit a new high last year, primed by cheap prices, faster equipment, and embedded chips.
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2:08:04 PM
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Source: InfoWorld
SMC launches new 802.11a/b/g router
SMC Networks Inc. launched a new wireless router Wednesday, aimed at users who want to share multimedia files on different
computers over a home network.
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1:15:34 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Intel Adds 11g to Centrino
After making the wrong bet on 802.11a, the chip giant this week begins shipping its own 802.11g silicon to laptop vendors.
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12:13:44 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Another Odd Red Herring Article
This seems to be an attempt at a big picture look at the Wi-Fi market: Big Picture it is, coming to novel conclusions such as that some enterprises will choose big names like Cisco because Cisco is well-known. Also, of all the big names in the Wi-Fi industry, the author chooses to only quote an exec from HP, which apparently is in the Wi-Fi business but certainly isn't considered a leader, and a Sony Ericsson exec....
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10:18:06 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
VoWLAN Study Group?
Voice over WLAN vendors have asked the IEEE to start a VoWLAN-specific study group: Currently, aspects of 802.11 related to the needs of VoWLAN are broken out in 802.11e (quality of service or packet prioritization and scheduling), 802.11f (inter-access point communication, which includes fast handoff of authenticated users), and 802.11i (encryption). Voice calls need very fast handoff as users roam, and the current standards are apparently not focused specifically enough for some vendors. As expected, Cisco has its own proprietary plans, yadda yadda yadda....
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10:18:04 AM
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