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Saturday, January 31, 2004 |
Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Colubris Scores with Swisscom
News.com reports that a formal Swisscom/Colubris deal should be announced Monday worth $5-6M for Colubris: The firm has already had 12,000 of its access points installed at 1,900 Swisscom hotspots across Europe....
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10:59:42 AM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Trainspotting Inside the Train
Writer tries out British GNER's train-based Wi-Fi with a Webcam: The long trip becomes boring, and the writer pulls out a massive Webcam to transmit images back to his home office. And we thought cell-phone cameras were intrusive enough!...
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10:59:41 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Representation of Man's Hubris Has Wi-Fi Throughout
Currently the largest ship ever built, the Queen Mary 2 features Wi-Fi throughout: The QM2 not only makes its own fresh water (by distilling sea water) and consumes its own waste with microbes, but the ship was designed with Wi-Fi in mind, offering access throughout. Prices weren't stated, but text SMS messages cost $1.50 each to send, so let's scale up from there. (Headline an homage to this Onion story.)...
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10:49:42 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Recycled Laptops Become Wireless Picture Frames
The always interesting Rafe Needleman writes at the Always On network about a digital picture frame company that started with the equivalent of eBay bargain hunting: Wallflower's Wi-Fi-enabled digital picture frames were originally reassembled components from cheap, unused, underpowered laptops bought from eBay. The company switched to commodity parts and assembly once they hit the scale. But they were creating something between a prototype and a finished production model for their early sales. Where this backfires? Every one of the first 150 units is handmade, and if it fails, there's no way to know precisely what went wrong. Eventually, even with a lot of care, they'll eat their first 150 sales by replacing them with production-line units, unless they already ate the sales by overengineering them....
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10:49:41 AM
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