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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Vocera Saves Hospitals Hours
300-bed hospital saves 3,400 hours a year with Vocera's communicator: Vocera's wearable Wi-Fi-based voice communicator is a hit at hospitals, with the 40 out of 60 of the company's customers coming from healthcare. In a study of one hospital conducted by a third party, nurses saved 1,100 hours per year and the hospital 3,400 hours a year. If you try to do the straight math and calculate hourly wages and benefits and a figure for potential overtime, you might look at that as, at most, $340,000 ($100 per hour all in, best case). But that ignores the reason that nurses and others in a hospital need to communicate: improved efficiency in patient care can reduce complications which can dramatically reduce costs above pure wages. And it only takes one avoidable mistake due to time that leads to a multi-million-dollar malpractice lawsuit that increases premiums hugely to make the system worth much more than a pure per hour wage replacement cost....
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10:06:40 PM 
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Source: C|Net
Google goes local
With Google Local, the search giant is determined to help Web surfers find cafes, parks or even Wi-Fi hot spots in their area. It also wouldn't mind getting a chunk of the huge market for local advertising.
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9:04:59 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
SFO Has Full Airport Wi-Fi Service
San Francisco International AirPort (SFO) should announce today full Wi-Fi coverage: The service, initiated in April 2003 by T-Mobile HotSpot, should now be available throughout all terminals. When I was in SFO a few months ago, I found access (for free at the time) in an Alaska Airlines gate that had previously been a dead zone. What's missing from this news, however, is when T-Mobile will transform SFO into a vendor-neutral host that resells access to other networks. When the deal was first announced with great fanfare and with many public officials, the statement was clear: other hotspot operators would be able to pay T-Mobile for access at a sensible rate. Since then, nada. You'd think T-Mobile would be using this as a leveraging tool for negotiating roaming with other hotspots operators who have the concession at other airports....
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11:21:15 AM
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Source: C|Net
Cable taps into wiretap law
Time Warner Cable, says a source, has tapped VeriSign to help it comply with federal wiretapping law for telecom carriers that will likely be extended to all broadband providers.
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11:10:44 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Surprisingly Low Awareness of Wi-Fi
Om Malik points to some studies that show that far more consumers are aware of voice over IP then Wi-Fi: An Ipsos-Insight study showed that 74 percent of consumers know about voice over IP while just 19 percent are aware of Wi-Fi. Still, just 6 percent of consumers use voice over IP. I'm surprised that so many more consumers know of voice over IP than Wi-Fi. While voice over IP has been talked about for many years, it has only recently gotten mainstream attention since some of the big mainstream telecom and cable players have started offering it. Wi-Fi, by contrast, has been grabbing headlines in the mainstream media for a few years now....
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10:29:53 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
AMD May Be Start Hotspot Marketing Program
AMD may be about to introduce a hotspot program that offers to market hotspots for venues: The hotspots must be offered to end users for free and in return AMD will market the locations of the hotspots and offer special giveaways and discounts to end users. AMD hasn't officially launched the program so a lot of details aren't clear. If this is true, it would appear to be an effort by AMD to put some marketing muscle behind its competition with Intel. While Intel leads the market in Wi-Fi chips built into laptops, AMD has a presence in the lower cost laptop market. During a recent trip to Best Buy, I found that most of the laptops in the lower price range had AMD processors. A hotspot program like the one described here would be AMD's take on Intel's program of placing signs in venues to mark hotspots except in AMD's case, the hotspots will be free for end users....
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9:38:34 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Cometa Available to iPass Users
Cometa network locations are now available to iPass customers: iPass users will be able to use Cometa locations. No pricing information is noted in this press release, which comes from Cometa, but iPass generally offers fixed per-minute, per-hour, or per-day rates for hotspot locations....
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9:07:00 AM
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