[OCCalWUG] News that's changing the Wireless World! Monday, May 31, 2004 Source: Ziff Davis Notes from the Lab The lab hits the road this week, runs into the Sasser worm and encounters lousy wireless connections. Back at the San Francisco lab, Jason Cross rediscovers the value of saving his work. Source Link 11:23:27 PM    comment [] Source: Extremetech Notes from the Lab The lab hits the road this week, runs into the Sasser worm and encounters lousy wireless connections. Back at the San Francisco lab, Jason Cross rediscovers the value of saving his work. Source Link 11:23:26 PM    comment [] Source: Wi-Fi Networking News Free Wi-Fi in Auckland's Heart Auckland City and ISP sponsor free Wi-Fi for June in central business district: Reach Wireless, which uses RoamAD's Wi-Fi mesh technology, has launched its central business district (CBD) service in New Zealand's Auckland City. The CBD and Reach are sponsoring free Wi-Fi with a downtown purchase through the month of June as a promotion. RoamAD's CEO Martin Levy said that service speeds range from 500 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps throughout the three-kilometer-square covered area. Pavements have been marked with a "Wi-Fi Zone" tag, and people in orange suits--I'm checking on why orange--and hard hats are handing out information packets during June. Regular service costs are NZ$8.50 (US$5.27) for an hour, NZ$16.95 (US$10.50) for a day, NZ$49.95 ($30.97) for monthly users that the press release describes as "light" (600 megabytes of transfer), and NZ$74.95 ($46.47) for "uncapped reasonable use service": 10 gigabytes per month after which your service speed may be capped at 256 Kbps.... Source Link 9:30:15 PM    comment [] Source: Computer World Sidebar: Keep Mobile Apps Simple, Say IT Managers Several IT managers who spoke at Computerworld's Mobile & Wireless World conference said the wisest approach to developing mobile applications is to prevent them from becoming too complex. Source Link 9:20:57 PM    comment [] Source: Computer World Unauthorized Wireless Users Strain Corporate Networks At Computerworld's Mobile & Wireless World conference, IT managers said one of the big issues they face is the need to rein in unauthorized devices and applications that mobile end users have surreptitiously installed on corporate networks. Source Link 9:20:56 PM    comment [] Source: Scripting.com Adam Curry and his colleagues created a wireless LAN on their flight home from Las Vegas to Amsterdam. 6:58:45 AM    comment [] © 2004 [OCCalWUG] Last Update: 6/1/2004; 2:48:46 AM

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