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Archive for October, 2002

Art Garage Sale

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 31st, 2002

Alan Reiter was approached by a state arts commission that’s interested in exploring the possibilities of using WiFi for the “arts.”
” With WiFi, you could download audio or video. Listen to interviews of authors, artists, actors. View pictures and photographs on display. Perhaps [...]

Wi-Fi Protected Access

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 31st, 2002

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced a new security standard, today. An IEEE standards effort called Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) will replace the existing WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) which has been proven to be insecure. The WPA-based security solutions (pdf), is derived from and will be forward compatible [...]

T-Mobile Adds Airlines Hot Spots

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 30th, 2002

T-Mobile HotSpot service, in over 1,800 locations, including Starbucks, Borders bookstores and cafes, airports and airline clubs, is adding American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines to its ‘Wi-Fi’ menagerie. The partnerships between T-Mobile and American, Delta and United is build upon T-Mobile’s existing service in more than 40 [...]

Showtime for Mobile Wireless

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 29th, 2002

Monet Mobile Networks, today officially announced the commercial launch of Monet Broadband, “the nation’s first high-speed, mobile Internet service” in Duluth, MN. Monet offers subscribers unlimited Web access, three e-mail addresses and 5MB of data storage for $40 a month. For $60 a month, subscribers get unlimited Web access, five e-mail accounts and [...]

Software Defined Radio

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 29th, 2002

Darrin Eden, a fan of software defined radio says, “I don’t remember seeing anyone post this so… Open-Source Reference For Software Defined Radio is an oldie, but goodie. The location of the page for the code is here. Can you say Radio Virtual Machine?” Software defined radios provide a [...]

City Telecom Hangups

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 29th, 2002

Portland’s city-owned telephone system will begin serving government offices next week, despite opposition from Qwest Communications. The Integrated Regional Network Enterprise (IRNE) fiber-optic lines run to city, county and state offices in the Portland area. But to complete calls, it needs a connection to the global telephone network. The [...]

Triple Plays

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 29th, 2002

Spirea AB, a privately held fab-less developer based in Kista, Sweden, today announced it is now sampling TripleTraC, the world’s first integrated tri-band 5.8GHz/5.2GHz/2.4GHz wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver. It supports IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11g(draft) standards on a single chip. Spirea expects the chips to be in full [...]

magic4 joins the Open Mobile Alliance

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 28th, 2002

Magic4, the world’s leading independent producer of mobile messaging software, providing seamless EMS, MMS, IM, SyncML and email applications, has joined the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) for interoperable mobile messaging. Magic4’s mobile messaging solutions, are used by handset manufacturers worldwide. The Open Mobile Architecture (OMA) initiative, integrates the [...]

FatPort + Covad

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 28th, 2002

FatPort and Covad are teaming to provide “hot spot” internet access in the United States. The one-piece, solid-state, FatPoint intelligent access point is designed for easy installation. Based on 802.11b wireless, location owners only need to plug the device into a Covad DSL line supplied by FatPort. FatPort handles all [...]

Bluetooth Palmed

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 28th, 2002

Don Park reports: “InfoSync has a very good review of the new Palm PDA announced today, the Tungsten T ($499). Its a very compact PalmOS 5 based PDA with a 144mhz TI ARM-based CPU and a 320×320 16bit color screen. “The really interesting part is its integrated [...]