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Archive for April, 2002

D-Link’s $500 Dual Band Access Point

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 25th, 2002

D-Link’s dual-band 11a/b wireless Access Point will be available this June for $499. While considerably less than the $1500 Cisco Aironet 1200, access points for personal, Soho and enterprises users can vary considerably in funtionality. D-Link’s D-LinkAir Pro DWL-6000AP dual mode access point can simultaneously serve both 802.11a wireless connectivity at 54Mbps and 802.11b wireless [...]

The Killer Ap

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 24th, 2002

Voice over IP defines The Revolution. It will not be televised. It will be in your Genio. Pocket Presence puts GSM software in a PocketPC. “Free” 802.11b networks for phone calls are coming. Running Voice IP has all the advantages of standard telephony with few disadvantages. Plus data. Global IP’s audio software is used to [...]

Intel launches IV-M

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 24th, 2002

“We will work to provide hundreds of thousands of wireless hotspots across the country,” thus spacke Don MacDonald, director of marketing for Intel’s mobile processor division, at Intel’s Pentium 4 Processor-M chip launch Tuesday. Intel is investing in companies that develop and deploy wireless hotspots in airports, hotels and automobiles. STSN, for example, is funded [...]

Here’s looking at you – from space

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 23rd, 2002

The power of the Hubble Space Telescope was boosted about 10 times last month when CCDs made by Scientific Imaging in Tigard, Oregon were installed by the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia on the STS-109 mission. It enabled the Hubble to see farther, more clearly, and in greater detail. Scientific Imaging is the world [...]

Make your own WAP site

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 23rd, 2002

Whether WAP is Crap depends on what you want. Tiny cellphone displays aren’t meant for web surfing. Getting distilled information is the key. The Wap Catalog, a Yahoo for WAP sites, has a comprehensive database of wireless content for your WAP cell phone. Best of all, you can make a free wap site!

Bandwidth costs drop 70-80%

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 23rd, 2002

Telegeography’s Terrestrial Bandwidth 2002 confirms that the supply of city-to-city bandwidth far exceeds actual needs. Yearly OC-3 Lease Prices on Major U.S. Routes, 2000-2002 Change Change Route 1Q 2000 1Q 2001 1Q 2002 00-01 01-02 L.A.-N.Y. $1,800,000 $600,000 $200,000 -70% -70% Miami-N.Y. $900,000 $200,000 $100,000 -80% -50% Atlanta-N.Y. $400,000 $200,000 $70,000 -50% -70% Chicago-N.Y. $400,000 [...]