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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Friday, March 12, 2004 |
Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Updating Ads by Wi-Fi
Marketplace Development works with Concourse to update plasma-display advertisements in LaGuardia via Wi-Fi: Marketplace creates the current generation of airport retail spaces, managing them for the airport authority. The company uses plasma display screens to provide information, which includes advertising and travel information. By using Concourse's host-neutral Wi-Fi network, Marketplace can update the content on a much simpler basis. Every time you have to pull a wire or add a service in an airport, big dollars are involved because of the clearances for staff and the time of day when such work can be performed. Wi-Fi obviates cost and delays....
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1:45:19 PM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
It's All In the Branding
When it comes to embedded Wi-Fi, no one can touch Intel...but the rest of the market for chip makers is wide open.
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11:10:51 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Radio France's Wi-Fi Day in Paris (Photos)
Matos Reseau's Raphael offers a photographic tour of Wi-Fi Day at Radio France in Paris (en français): The report proves that the French know nothing about tea, but are quite sophisticated at demonstrating Wi-Fi. (See the last page of photos at the bottom: the French Pringles cantenna or beef stew/instant coffee can equivalent uses a Lipton tea container.) [link via GeeBlog]...
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10:49:52 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Gateway APs to Appear in April
PC-maker Gateway said it will make Wi-Fi access points that will start hitting the shelves in April: The APs will target small and medium businesses. The company hasn't revealed pricing but promises that the price will be "incredibly disruptive," according to the InfoWorld story. Gateway will be entering a crowded market but it has the brand power to attract attention and buyers....
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10:15:51 AM
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Source: C|Net
FBI pushes for broadband wiretap powers
All broadband Internet providers, including cable modem and DSL companies, would have to rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police, according to a new proposal from the FBI.
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9:54:56 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Let the Races Begin
Nine Canadian cities will become race courses this year: Navigate the Streets is an urban race where teams of two follow clues to find checkpoints. Some participants carry laptops and use hotspots to get online help for solving the clues. Teams pay $5 to enter and proceeds go to a charity called Right to Play....
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9:54:55 AM
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Source: C|Net
Commentary: The challenge for AT&T
AT&T's CEO delivered an aggressive message about customer service and Net phone and wireless services--and now Forrester Research gives its take on those ideas.
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9:14:06 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Taking the Airpath to Partners
Hotspot backend provider Airpath is continuing to launch a series of marketing partnerships; its latest is mesh-networker FireTide.
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9:14:03 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
McDonald's May Announce Wi-Fi Plans This Month
McDonald's may have news on its choice of Wi-Fi hotspot infrastructure vendor, number of locations: This article spends a lot of time reviewing old news at some length, but it does have one bit of new information: McDonald's should shortly choose among Wayport, Cometa, and Toshiba, and define the extend of their hotspot deployment. Sources have told me that Toshiba's efforts overall--not specific to its Chicagoland McDonald's deployment--have been lackluster and haphazard without a comprehensive plan behind it. Cometa recently lost AT&T as a reseller of their network, and AT&T Wireless does not list Cometa locations (even though it ostensibly resells them). Cometa just redesigned its Web site removing a logo bar that had been in place for month showing their reseller partners. Their new site contains no information about how to get access to Cometa networks, but it does have a hotspot locator....
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8:01:32 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Hotspot Hits for March 5, 2004
Henderson, Nev.'s Chamber of Commerce to provide hotspots; San Francisco's Moscone Center becomes a hotzone; Bellsouth proclaims Charlotte, N.C. to be it's first public Wi-Fi network; and more.
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7:08:30 AM
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Source: Scripting.com
News.Com: "McDonald's doesn't expect to earn money initially from its Wi-Fi service. It hopes instead to attract more customers and sell more burgers and fries."
4:43:19 AM
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