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Archive for October, 2002

Open Software Development

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 28th, 2002

OSDN will port SourceForge.net to IBM’s DB2 database software for Linux. The site will be fully converted to DB2 by mid-January of 2003. More Open Source developers collaborate on more projects at SourceForge.net than anywhere on the web. It’s the world’s largest collaborative software development web site, with more [...]

iPass Campus Roaming

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 28th, 2002

iPass today unveiled its On Campus Roaming capability, the ability to use a single user interface and gain a single user experience to achieve enterprise connectivity on and off campus. iPass has developed the Generic Interface Specification (GIS), which defines a method to authenticate subscription users at Wi-Fi hotspots. [...]

Internet Kiosks

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 26th, 2002

According to marketing director Raj Bhandari (left), for Zip Internet, kiosk companies have been working with unsustainable business models. “Simply providing an internet access terminal and then getting the coins out of it is not going to work,” he claimed. Furthermore, kiosk providers assumed site owners would [...]

MPEG-4 Encoding Getting H.264

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2002

MPEG-4 is going through a major evolution with H.264. EE Times reports that Sand Video, a startup based in Andover, Mass., will deliver a chip in 2003 that supports the real-time encoding and decoding of standard-definition video images in accordance with H.264. Also known as L.26 or MPEG-4 Part 10, [...]

Truck Stop Wi-Fi

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2002

802 Planet recently profiled Siricomm, an 802.11b service bureau for truckers. Customers can send and receive all types of data as well as access the Internet inside the truck stop or outside in the lot. “Drivers have access to our truck stop specials, e-mail, company intranets, weather, current road conditions, engine data, software [...]

Industrial Spying

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 24th, 2002

The World Wide War Drive is scheduled for 26 October thru 2 November. It’s an effort by security professionals and hobbyists to generate awareness of the need by individual users and companies to secure their access points. The goal of the WorldWide WarDrive is to provide a statistical analysis of the many access [...]

Hot Couple: Proxim + Ericsson

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 24th, 2002

Wi-Fi juggernaut Proxim and cellular powerhouse Ericsson/Sony have teamed to provide public Wi-Fi “hot spots”. Ericsson will use Proxim’s ORiNOCO AP-2000, a dual-slot access point in its Mobile Operator Wireless LAN solution. A laptop user with the smart card embedded could log on at a hotspot and have their [...]

Routing Wi-Fi Anywhere

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 23rd, 2002

I am trying to figure out a cheap solution to deliver broadband from a community center to the surrounding neighborhood (about a 1/2 mile radius). My initial proposal was simply to put a Wi-Fi antenna on the roof of the community center. Users could get broadband using a $250 Playstation2 or $200 Walmart [...]

Wi-Fi in a Stadium

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 23rd, 2002

Air-Grid Networks delivers live in-game video and instant replay feeds to spectators via wireless Pocket PCs or Webpads. Fans can rent the device for about $25. Users can watch the on-field action live or watch the replay from multiple camera angles. Air-Grid positions wireless LAN [...]

Cell Phone in a Laptop

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 23rd, 2002

BVRP’s $50 Mobile PhoneTools can send and receive voice calls from a Laptop. An image of a cellular phone appears on the screen and provides “one-click” connectivity for voice and data. GPRS cards like the Sierra Wireless Aircard 750 or Novatel 301 in the laptop provide cellular connectivity. [...]