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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Monday, May 24, 2004 |
Source: InfoWorld
CA preps wireless site
management software
LAS VEGAS - Computer Associates International Inc. previewed Monday at its
user show in Las Vegas a new tool for managing wireless networks that early
users say provides critical monitoring and security functionality.
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5:20:55 PM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
SanDisk Ships 256 Mb
plus Wi-Fi SD Card
SanDisk continues to push combo envelope with 256 Mb and Wi-Fi in a single
SD card: These cards still remain supported only by Pocket PC systems
running Microsoft software, but it's a great technical achievement. As we
move into a time when it's likely that digital cameras will offer
driver-level support for Wi-Fi Compact Flash and similar memory cards,
SanDisk could be poised to deliver their combo punch for that market. Some
storage (at least temporary) coupled with the ability to transmit
images....
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3:07:55 PM
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Source: Computer World
IT managers ready defenses against flaw in wireless
LANs
A security flaw is making some Wi-Fi WLANs vulnerable to denial-of-service
attacks, but corporate users said it should be relatively easy to guard
against attacks -- provided your company has radio frequency management
skills and a good network design.
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1:55:37 PM
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Source: Computer World
IT managers ready defenses against flaw in
wireless LANs
A security flaw is making some Wi-Fi WLANs vulnerable to denial-of-service
attacks, but corporate users said it should be relatively easy to guard
against attacks -- provided your company has radio frequency management
skills and a good network design.
Source Link
1:55:35 PM
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Source: eWEEK Technology News
CA Shows Beta Wireless Site Management Tool
The tool, demonstrated by CTO Yogesh Gupta at the company's CAWorld
conference, is capable of managing encryption keys across all wireless
devices and access points and preventing unauthorized access through the use
of virtual security zones inside the network.
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12:53:06 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Wardriving a Zip Code
and Looking at Demographics
A writer becomes curious about his California Zip code's Wi-Fi penetration,
and creates a map: Lee Gomes of The Wall Street Journal drives around for
hours, picks up 3,000 hotspots in a population of 70,000 households, and
then maps the results against income. His conclusion: Wi-Fi has become so
ubiquitous in urban areas that even though it's not linked together, we have
practically a seamless network already. (Tie that idea in with community
mesh, and you've got ubiquitous access.) [link via Brian Chin]...
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11:51:05 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Trying to Understand
WiMax? The Wall Street Journal Explains
The Journal's Nick Wingfield lays out the WiMax field, including the basis
of its technology, its potential for rollout, and the current state of
wireless broadband: Wingfield's article is a solid portrayal of the state of
the industry, including the likely date for real equipment being available
in the U.S. (2006, he notes, which jibes with fellow editor Nancy Gohring's
research among WiMax-backin gcompanies), the market size, and the potential
competition with cellular data and existing wireline services. WiMax and its
early relatives has the best potential in areas in which service is
difficult to obtain (the prairie or Manhattan), wireline services offer
limits to uploads and downloads far below a wireless broadband offering (at
the edges of DSL coverage, for instance), or where wireless broadband is
just plain cheaper. In some cases, early wireless broadband offers high
speeds at cost that are the same or as little as half of competing wireline
offerings. I'm not bullish on WiMax's mobile options, which are even further
out in the future for deployment because by the time that standard is set,
the cell companies will have had three or four years dealing with the first
and probably second iterations of 3G cellular data. Meanwhile, Wi-Fi might
blanket whole cities, an increasing trend....
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11:40:35 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Wi-Fi/Memory
SD Card Ready
Sixteen months after it was first announced, SanDisk says it will have a
combo memory and wireless NIC card in Secure Digital format will ship in the
next 30 days.
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11:09:05 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
CUWIN Updates Drivers,
Ports
The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network project adds additional
support: This mesh/cloud open-source project profiled here a few weeks ago
now supports Atheros cards, and has ported their software to work on the
Soekris 4526, a solid-state platform that can handle its hardware needs.
Downloads are available immediately of the new software....
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10:17:35 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Community Wi-Fi Needs
Expansion, Coordination
Paul Andrews writes in The Seattle Times about the notion of a public
coordinating board for municipal wireless: Andrews thinks that towns and
cities could be well served by planning policies and deployment, whether
public or public/private partnerships, to better ensure comprehensive
coverage rather than a patchwork....
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10:07:54 AM
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