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Archive for November, 2002

Camouflaging APs

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 11th, 2002

The DFW Wireless Users Group used a square 6″ tupperware container for their outdoor Linksys WAP11 enclosure similar to NYC Wireless with a POE module. It works. But it’s not very attractive. Why not stash the tupperware container behind a [...]

Cybercar

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 11th, 2002

The Cybercar is a mobile studio equipped with a giant video screen wall mounted on the side of the vehicle. It allows people to create video segments, upload information to websites and broadcast live from any location. The Cybercar was built to transform the use of television and [...]

Interactive Television

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 11th, 2002

Tracy Swedlow’s, InteractiveTV Today is the leading source of information on the rapidly emerging interactive television (ITV) industry. Interactive TV application are everywhere outside the United States. Tracy Swedlow’s newsletter profiles interactive television applications. These include: Movielink, the movie-studio-backed IP VOD [...]

Korean Cyber Village

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 11th, 2002

Korea Telecom (KT), the world’s largest broadband services provider, has selected Riverstone’s RS family of metro routers for the third phase of its Ntopia project, which connects more than 5 million subscribers over Korea’s largest broadband metropolitan network. Riverstone’s RS 8600 routers will deliver advanced Ethernet-based services, such as [...]

Wardriving with AP Radar

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 10th, 2002

Need to go WarDriving with your ‘nix machine? Rejoice! Don Park’s AP Radar has reached a level of functionality that it should be usable to users on the bleeding edge. “If you have a linux system using kernel 2.5, please go to http://apradar.sourceforge.net and download [...]

FCC’s Battle of the Bands

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 9th, 2002

Chairman of the FCC, Michael Powell, asked a task force to find some spectrum for 3G phones. Last week, the FCC approved 2 blocks of 45 MHz for 3G service. The 90 MHz allocation increases by 1/3 the total spectrum that can use advanced wireless services. The [...]

Flying Hot-Spot

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 8th, 2002

In September 2002, a solar-powered Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) served as an airborne Wi-Fi “hot spot” relaying images of coffee plantations on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai. The solar-powered airplane loitered more than four hours, taking digital images to make a “clear-sky” mosaic. A stock Cisco 340 Access Point relayed [...]

Convention(al) Wi-Fi

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 8th, 2002

Alan Reiter says:
Washington, D.C.’s new convention center, scheduled for completion in March 2003 and the biggest building in the city, will be getting WiFi. It will cover six city blocks on 17 acres. Smart City is the exclusive contractor for providing landline and wireless infrastructure.
Meanwhile, [...]

MIT’s Digital Archive

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 8th, 2002

C/Net reports that MIT and Hewlett-Packard are developing a system for electronically archiving books, lecture notes and scientific data. It may serve as a model for academic libraries. Called DSpace (test site), the new system is a centralized repository for intellectual property created by research institutions, according to Mackenzie [...]

Best PocketPC Software

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 8th, 2002

It’s January, 2003, over at PocketPC Magazine where they’re announcing the Best Software Awards for 2002. Winners and finalists were in 57 categories including: Communication Running Voice GSM (VOIP) and Intellisync (synch) Games [...]