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Archive for March, 2002

Michael Posts KGW story

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2002

Michael Codanti Reports: I have made a medium quality WMV (Windows Media) file out of all three parts [of the KGW Personal Telco story] and it only comes out to 1.7megs. You can get it from here (Slow off of my server, feel free to host it somewhere with [...]

Community LAN Resource Links

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2002

On-Line Resources: Public Community LANS Adam Shand’s Community LAN List Austin Wireless BAWUG Boston Wireless FreeNetworks.org Linux-wlan NoCat NYC Wireless [...]

Linux Phones Home

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2002

IBM Opens First-Of-Its-Kind Linux Testing Lab IBM is developing Linux for the telecommunications industry at a lab in Beaverton. The Linux Service Provider Lab (LSPL), provides an environment to test and validate applications, including voice over IP, softswitch, next generation wireless applications, unified messaging and network services. IBM, [...]

Wednesday PersonalTelco Meeting

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2002

Adam Shand Posts Agenda for Wednesday meeting: We are trying out a new format this month for Personal Telco. We don’t have a speaker lined upright now but if a speaker magically appears it will be a 7:00 - 7:30 time slot. 6:00PM - 7:00PM - New Newbie [...]

New free node at Portland State coffee shop

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2002

Perry Wagle reports: Sunday, I wandered into the Seattle’s Best Coffee across from the PSU bookstore (where the streetcar pauses), and someone was an hour short of setting up a wireless network. He said they weren’t planning to charge for it other than really expecting people to [...]

PersonalTelco is on TV (Channel 8/KGW Portland Or)

Posted by Don Park on March 26th, 2002

I am the cafe in pioneer courthouse square writing this article. Joe Smith from KGW Channel 8 met Adam Shand of Personal Telco to do a quick interview. The cameraman set up in the NE corner of the square, and about 7 minutes of interview footage was shot which will become a 90 second spot [...]

Behind the Curtain at Intel Labs

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2002

Intel Labs: Behind the Curtain For the first time, Intel opened the doors to its research and development labs, giving the public a peek at what’s going on behind closed doors. Intel’s secret Hillsboro lab promises to [...]

D-Link and Intel add UPnP

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2002

Plug and Pray - and the New New Thing D-Link, announced a Free Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) firmware upgrade today for the D-Link DI-804 Cable/DSL Router and Firewall with integrated 4-port 10/100 Ethernet switch. UPnP allows Windows XP and Windows ME to automatically recognize the D-Link DI-804 and dynamically configure the [...]

T-Life on the Go

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2002

Voicestream’s Teams with Go America: VoiceStream, which operates the largest GSM/GPRS wireless voice and data network in the United States and more than 650 public Wi-Fi 802.11b network locations in airports, conference centers and coffeehouses (thanks to Moblestar), is now teaming with GoAmerica. GoAmerica will market VoiceStream’s GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) [...]

Single Chip 802.11a

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2002

Matthew Peretz of 802 Planet reports: Bermai announced today 802.11a on a single-chip. According to the company, its has better range, better performance, less susceptibility to interference, and a significantly reduced Bill of Materials. “Our single-chip OFDM on CMOS solutions will be the most highly [...]