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Archive for June, 2003

AT&T Wireless + Stayonline

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2003

Hotel guests staying at properties using StayOnline’s wireless, high-speed networks, will soon be greeted by a co-branded web page featuring the familiar AT&T Wireless logo. Current AT&T Wireless Wi-Fi subscribers will simply be able to utilize their existing accounts. Single-use access will be available to non-AT&T Wireless subscribers, who will also have the [...]

Security Pitch in High Gear

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2003

Like public broadcasters after a tax refund, security and communications vendors are clamoring for a piece of the action as Homeland Security checks are cut for municipal governments. Symbol and its channel partners, for example, will demonstrate homeland security technology solutions this week in Washington DC. They’re showing off [...]

Smart Card Access

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2003

Wireless security software developer Columbitech, today announced support for Smart Card authentication in its flagship product Columbitech Wireless Suite (FAQ). The new product combines military-strength authentication with VPN security for remote use. Currently, Columbitech Wireless Suite supports a [...]

PlanetLab

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2003

PlanetLab, a global test bed for inventing and testing prototype Internet applications and services is being developed by the University of California, Berkeley, HP, Intel Corporation, Princeton University, the University of Washington and more than 60 universities from around the world. The researchers aim to “overlay” the internet and expand the [...]

Politically Correct Tri-Mode Chips

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2003

Tim Higgins reports that Intersil is sampling its new PRISM WorldRadio. A second generation of its PRISM Duette, a two-chip, 802.11a/b/g radio designed to provide global wireless connectivity. The new chipset is designed to support existing and proposed WLAN standards, including 802.11a, b, d, g, h, i [...]

Networking Sensors

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2003

Nanotechnology, MEMS and wireless applications were the focus of the 2003 Spring Sensors Expo & Conference earlier this month sponsored by Sensors Magazine. Smart, networked sensors will soon be all around us, collectively processing vast amounts of previously unrecorded data to help run factories, maintain crops, and [...]

Broadband: High & Low

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 23rd, 2003

Alcatel Space and Ems Satnet have announced a “DSL in the Sky” for ISPs and a deal with SATLYNX, Europe’s premier 2-way satellite broadband services provider using Gilat’s popular Skystar 360E, a low cost, consumer Ka-band terminal that provides 52.5 Mbps down and 307.2 kbps up. Alcatel’s transpacific fiber [...]

Power over Ethernet

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 23rd, 2003

Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology was approved by the IEEE Standards Board on June 12, 2003, and will be published on or before July 11, 2003, as “802.3af-2003.” “The 802.3af standard will provide the first global standard for power,” stated Steve Carlson, Chair of the 802.3af Task Force, “Thousands [...]

Pocket PC 2003

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 22nd, 2003

Microsoft today unveils Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC aka,”Windows Mobile”. Based on the Windows CE.Net operating system, Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC is the third major release of the platform, which debuted in April 2000 and was last updated in October 2001. Pocket PC and Smartphone devices, made by a [...]

Oregon’s Secure Network

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 21st, 2003

Oregon’s Regional Alliance for Information and Network Security (RAINS), a partnership of more than 60 technology companies and government agencies, launched a secure data-sharing network called RAINS-Net earlier this year. The network is the result of an effort to adopt homeland security information technologies. Swan Island Networks, [...]