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Archive for November, 2002

Thanksgiving Streaming Audios

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 27th, 2002

Happy Thanksgiving! While these links may not have much to do with wireless, they are some of my favorite streaming audio files. Thought you might enjoy them, too. African Drums . Nigerian Drums . Latin Drums . Congas . Taiko . Portland Taiko . [...]

Sky High Wi-Fi

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 27th, 2002

Telesphere’s prototype Airship, will deliver 802.11b to laptops on the ground located within a 10-mile radius. During the demo, Sanswire intends to randomly deploy a series of laptop computers that will all be interconnected. The balloon-based platform will broadcast the demo live over the Internet from the company’s website on December [...]

Wi-Fi Backbones for Apartments

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 26th, 2002

USURF America (FAQ), supplys voice and high-speed internet access to apartments using Wi-Fi backbones. The 240 unit, Green Valley Apartments in eastern Colorado Springs, is fully operational. Another development near downtown Denver, with 225 dwelling units will get video and data services in the summer of 2003 via Wi-Fi. The [...]

Open GIS Applications

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2002

ESRI today announced the successful demonstration of ArcIMS software in phase one of the Open Location Services (OpenLS) Testbed Initiative, a program of the Open GIS Consortium. The plan? Provide wireless standards for interoperable location-based services. LBS partners include cellular operators and wireless ISPs. [...]

Wireless Parks

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2002

City parks have not addressed the needs of a Wireless Society. The New York Times story on Wireless Parks (no registration required, thanks to Google) has an interesting angle:
“Walking the streets of New York today means walking amid an unseen tangle of Wi-Fi. The hum of Internet [...]

DVD Software Standard

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2002

DVD players play movies. Image management software creates slide shows. The Optical Storage Technology Association’s new MPV open software standard hopes to bring them together with a “standardized” slideshow format. Both PCs and DVD players can exchange and playback collections of digital photos, video, and music. [...]

Cool Town

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 23rd, 2002

What would happen if you provided 300 PDAs to 600 students along with an 802.11b network? It might provide some good research data relatively cheaply and spur software development. A testbed school might be designated. Half the students would have a PDA for half the year then they [...]

Shadows of Motown

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 23rd, 2002

My television blew up a few months ago. I haven’t missed it at all. In fact, I’m more entertained and enriched without it. Movies are more fun, too. Today, I’m looking forward to Standing In the Shadows of Motown using a digital projection system playing at Portland’s [...]

Cellular/Wi-Fi Plans

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 22nd, 2002

Last year cellular operators were dismissive of Wi-Fi networking. Wi-Fi couldn’t go more than 1000 feet. What value could it be? What threat could Wi-Fi offer to their “3G” blanket coverage? What a difference a year makes. Today, virtually every carrier has announced some kind of plan to incorporate Wi-Fi. [...]

Handsets Key to VoIP

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 22nd, 2002

NEC’s “Pocket@i” PDA with VoIP via Wi-Fi is not available in the United States - but it could be. By integrating PDA funtionality with WiFi-enabled mobile telephony, these devices could become a force. Cellular might get competition from “hot spot” providers. Dell’s $200 Pocket PC is cheaper than [...]