CNN reports Athens, Georgia, is building a “cloud” over several blocks of the downtown area. Anyone can have free Internet access. Students at the U/G School of Journalism and Mass Communication will be assigned to work with local merchants to come up with ideas that use wireless capabilities to bring in business. [...]
Microsoft’s Windows CE .NET 4.1 upgrade includes an important new feature; IPV6, the sucessor to IPV4, the protocol that runs the internet. IPv6 increases the address space from 32 bits to 128 bits, providing a virtually unlimited number of networks and systems. IPv6 also supports quality of service parameters for real-time [...]
Microsoft and AT&T Wireless plan to announce on Wednesday new wireless services to business customers. The deal apparently calls for both companies to develop software and services for e-mail, calendars, data and other business applications. Microsoft has cut deals with at most major US cellular carriers including VoiceStream, Sprint and [...]
Progress was made on the Resilent Packet Ring standard last month in Vancouver, BC. The IEEE 802.17 Working Group is defining a Protocol for use in Local, Metropolitan and Wide Area Networks for transfer of data packets at rates scalable to many gigabits per second. The new standard will use existing Physical Layer [...]
Pronto Networks (FAQ), developer of fee-based wireless “hot spots”, today announced that iPass Roaming service will be integrated into Pronto’s wireless LAN system for seamless roaming between public hot spots. Pronto also works with roaming software competitor, GRIC. Pronto’s core infrastructure solution, the Hotspot Networking System, will be iPass-compliant. [...]
War driving may be considered a crime by some - but hey, what about war killing by the military? Devices that do NOT conform to FCC part 15 regulations include; a weapon that fires radiation beams that make people feel they’re in a microwave oven. The US Army tested one earlier [...]
802 Planet reports, that AirWave has been certified under the Open Platform for Security (OPSEC) standard. Their Linux-based software runs on a Pentium server and controls a minimum of 500 access points with centralized WLAN management and support for VPNs. Check Point Software, the biggest player in the VPN space, has [...]
AeroAstro, a small satellites producer, and Globalstar, a handheld satellite phone service, have successfully demonstrated a new, very low cost tracking device. The Satellite Enabled Notification System (SENS), is a pager-size device that sends data over the Globalstar satellite network and through AeroAstro’s patented decoders at the Globalstar gateways. [...]
Houston computer security analyst, Stefan Puffer, has been charged with hacking after demonstrating the insecurity of a county courts wireless LAN. He could get five years in jail and faces a $250,000 fine on each count if convicted, the Houston Chronicle reports. It’s believed to be the first case of its kind [...]
Minneapolis Web designer Dack Ragushas draws stick figures and decapitates them on his tiny “Cell Phone Theater.” They’re small (and short) because they were originally developed for display on web-enabled cell phones. World Cup soccer video was transmitted to cell phones in Japan. Let’s drop into a sports cafe [...]
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