The City of St. John’s, North America’s oldest city, is undergoing a wireless and mobility makeover. The City will equip over 100 civic workers with handheld devices to gain real-time, remote access to the Citizen Service and other mission-critical applications. Other components of the City of St. John’s wireless strategy include: [...]
iGrid, the biennial International Grid event, concentrates on visualizing what Grid can do. A Virtual Laboratory with a 10 GigE circuit between Seattle and Amsterdam was demonstrated. The Pacific Northwest Gigapop and the University of Washington’s Research Channel sent uncompressed HDTV over IP halfway around the world. [...]
The Internet Archive Bookmobile will be printing out public-domain books on demand and giving them to people at schools, libraries, shopping malls, senior citizens centers, and other venues as it crosses the country this week. The satellite-linked bookmobile was on view in San [...]
LocustWorld, a mesh networking developer, has announced the release of MeshAP-05. This is a prototype release intended for the widest possible test. Locustworld encourages feedback. This is a test release of a bootable CD which turns a single board computer or laptop into a mesh node and access point. [...]
AT&T Wireless new technologies and planning director, Umesh Amin, claimed 3G nets cost less than 802.11 WLANs.
“I feel 802.11 still has a long way to go to meet the needs of the mobile professional. As for costs, it’s true 802.11 capital expense is very low, but you also have to [...]
Netgear today launched a Dual Band PC Card (WAB501). Based on the Atheros’ (AR5001X) WLAN chipset, the $180, Netgear Card automatically roams between 802.11a and 802.11b networks, while providing an option to only enable roaming in either 802.11a or 802.11b networks. The 32-bit WAB501 CardBus adapter appears to be [...]
Ever have your phone go out? My phone has been out since Thursday. I was vacuuming and must have hit the jack. My old apartment has about 6 different wires coming in. I thought it would be easy to fix. I reconnected the broken wire but it was no go. [...]
The song, Better Than Anything, was just on the radio sung by Natalie Cole and Diana Krall. It was written by Bill Loughborough, who apparently lives not far from me in the Columbia River Gorge. It made me think of Wi-Fi. Sheeze…I gotta get [...]
Nigel Ballard pointed out this interesting link to Sustainable Satellite Internetwork at the Big Green Gathering. Connection to the Internet was made using a satellite link, with the 90 cm dish mounted on top of a van. This connection was then shared [...]
The Jacksonville City Council plans to introduce a proposal that will locally block the merger between Comcast and AT&T. AT&T says the city doesn’t have the legal right to take such an action, which was agreed upon after talks between the provider and the city failed to progress. The city has been attempting [...]
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