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Archive for July, 2003

Cellular Walking Directions

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2003

M-spatial, a mobile phone mapping solution provider, has announced Vodafone UK will provide maps and walking directions for use on mass market mobile phones.
Cambridge UK-based m-spatial has integrated its unique MapWay pedestrian navigation service into Vodafone Live! which now has over a million customers across Europe. [...]

802.16e Vrs 802.20

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 27th, 2003

Michael van Noorden, Managing Director of Sevida, a consulting firm in the UK, provides Wi-Fi ecadamy with interesting observations on the battle between mobilized 802.16e (using both licensed and unlicensed bands) and 802.20 (using licensed bands below 3.5 GHz) - for vehicular-speed handoff.
In March, the standards body [...]

The new AT&T?

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 27th, 2003

TowerStream has launched a wireless backhaul service in the five boroughs of New York City for enterprises and hot spot operators. At $325 per Mbps, TowerStream’s pricing is significantly lower than a wired T-1.
TowerStream, which currently provide T-1 and higher Internet access in Boston, plans to expand availability to more [...]

Building Linux APs

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 26th, 2003

SlashDot has a story on building a Linux-based 802.11b wireless access point. TheIBM DeveloperWorks article used a Soekris Net4521 box running NYC’s Pebble with Free BSD on a CompactFlash card. PersonalTelco, Seattle Wireless, NYC wireless and the Bay Area Research Wireless Network use similar gear. Brian Beattie’s Bewitched is similar to Pebble [...]

Unwiring Everything, Everywhere

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 24th, 2003

Glenn Fleishman notes a 42-square-block FREE Wi-Fi cloud is being established in St. Louis. The model is similar to Boston’s Newbury Open Network where equipment was donated for a free network. The 42-block St. Louis wireless cloud was created by O2Connect who donated $25K of gear and their time [...]

Sony Opens Up

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 24th, 2003

Sony has selected OpenTV’s Device Mosaic, as the standard browser for an advanced line of Sony audio-video products called the Cocoon series. The Cocoon series is an advanced line of Sony products including a hard disk recorder (HDD) with PVR functionality and provides access to downloadable content from the [...]

Morphing Sports to Games - Live

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 24th, 2003

Sports franchises mired in red ink (like the Portland Trail Blazers) or stadium complexes (like Portland’s PGE Park), might revive their franchises and create new wealth by utilizing technology that transforms real-life games and celebrities into video games. Intel’s Oregon software labs and Orad teamed up [...]

In Defense of Narrowband

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 23rd, 2003

Here’s the word from Bruce P. Mehlman, Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, United States Department of Commerce. He delivered an address “The Broadband Revolution is Alive & Well…” before the NECA-NARUC Conference in Washington, DC, on April 28, 2003. Mehlman says,
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Disney/AOL/Viacom Does Not Own Your Butt (Yet)

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 23rd, 2003

Lawmakers today voted 400-21 to roll back media ownership rules passed by FCC. It was part of a budget bill for the Federal Communications Commission and other agencies and included language blocking increased corporate domination of media. It would roll back the FCC ruling that would allow networks to own [...]

CDPD Replacement Radios

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 23rd, 2003

Over the next two years, service to hundreds of thousands of mission- critical mobile data users will be terminated, as cellular companies shut down their CDPD networks. “There are no mobile data replacement alternatives offered by commercial carriers that provide the customized geographic coverage, guaranteed response times and guaranteed [...]