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Archive for June, 2003

Bikedriving e740

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2003

Keegan, reports that his Toshiba e740, loaded up PocketWarrior works great for warbiking:
“This morning before work, I stuck my Toshiba e740, loaded with PocketWarrior in my backpack, and 20 minutes later, I had found 29 APs, 6 of which were WEP’d. [...]

Cable’s Wi-Fi Play

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2003

Motorola SBG1000, the industry’s first wireless cable modem gateway, integrates a cable modem, router and wireless access point in a single product. It will be used by Mexico’s InterCable Monterrey to launch a “CableLink Wireless” service. InterCable Monterrey plans to make its tiered, high-speed wireless Internet access service available to about 200,000 customer [...]

City-wide Wi-Fi Management Packages

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2003

FirstSpot (FAQ), is a Windows-based WLAN Access Server designed to track and secure a public Wi-Fi network in a centralized way. Based on captive portal technology, FirstSpot allows users to login only utilizing a web browser. Other, centrally managed Community LAN software include Sputnik and the popular Community [...]

IPWireless On Cellular

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2003

IPWireless has successfully completed the world’s first interoperability (IOT) and co-existence testing between UMTS TDD (TD-CDMA) and UMTS FDD (WCDMA) networks at Nortel Networks wireless headquarters in Ch teaufort, France. The test, completed during a trial of the IPWireless TDD solution, demonstrated that both FDD and TDD standards of 3G UMTS [...]

PrismQ Settop Does G

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2003

PRISMIQ, a networked entertainment device, today announced availability of 802.11a/g Wi-Fi support for the $250 PRISMIQ MediaPlayer entertainment gateway. The consumer set-top box enables DVD-quality video over Wi-Fi. The PRISMIQ MediaPlayer enables consumers to use TVs, stereos, and entertainment centers anywhere [...]

Nomadix Allows Shared ISPs

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2003

Nomadix unveiled enhanced roaming, security, billing and management capabilities for large-scale deployments of Wi-Fi Public-access networks, at the 802.11 Planet Conference & Expo, this week in Boston. This software release will be available on the Nomadix family of Access Gateways and available for license as an embedded [...]

Calgary’s Wireless City

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2003

Calgary has become a wireless city (FAQ). Calgary’s Wireless City initiative allows the public to send and receive e-mails, search the Web, and send or download files without being plugged in, using their own Wi-Fi laptops or PDAs. Roaming from multiple Wireless [...]

Ultimate Flight Simulator

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2003

One hundred years ago, on December 17th, 1903, the Wright Flyer made the first powered, controlled flight. As part of EAA’s Countdown to Kitty Hawk, you can practice takeoffs and landings in a simulation of the Wright Flyer. Or you can skip a century. Try WidevieW, a Freeware [...]

JVC’s Wireless MPEG-4 Devices

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2003

JVC’s new Windows Mobile 2003-based Pocket PC offers unique audio/video features, including MPEG4 video capture and playback, and wireless video streaming. The new JVC iO Pocket PC line, powered by a 400 MHz PXA255 processor, will include two models, the JVC MP-PV131 and MP-PV331. They support a [...]

Strix and Air Magnet

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2003

Strix Systems, based in Westlake Village, Calif., announced its new Access/One Network infrastructure today which uses a wireless Ethernet backhaul. The self-configuring, self-healing mesh network is capable of using 802.11 a/b/g, Bluetooth and future wireless interfaces according to the company president. Strix is deploying the equipment at some customers [...]