Wireless OS
Posted by Sam Churchill on August 31st, 2003Software Objects, Inc is providing free project hosting for open-source wireless OS development. For more information, please visit thesoftwareobjects.com/Projects.
Archive for August, 2003
Meshed Roofnets
Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2003 Technology Review has a story on MIT’s Roofnet, a mesh networking project creating self-organizing wireless networks with cheap Linux computers and Wi-Fi cards.
Each computer and roof-mounted antenna at students’ apartments and MIT buildings is a node on the network (map). The interconnection topology is constantly changing. [...]
Fleishman & Higgins on WDS
Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2003 Glenn Fleishman has an article on Wireless Distribution Systems on O’Reilly’s Wireless DevCenter. Wireless bridging connects two Access Points together, point to point (or multipoint).
Products like the Linksys’ WGA54G Wireless-G Game Adapter and WET 54G Wireless Ethernet Adapter provide wireless bridging to games and computers. Proxim’s Tsunami [...]
Intel + South Korea = WiMax
Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2003 South Korea’s KT Corp. and Intel have agreed to cooperate in wireless telecommunications, digital home networking and broadband convergence network through joint marketing and research and development efforts.
The agreement was reached during Intel Chief Executive Craig Barrett’s visit to South Korea. Among the projects slated to be carried [...]
Portable Playstation Specs
Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2003 Although Playstation Portable, known formally as the PSP, won’t be available until the fourth quarter of 2004, it could shake up the handheld market. Specs include:
An LCD about 4.5 inches wide, with 480 x 272-dot resolution; a 60-mm-diameter disk system; and a proprietary Sony system called Universal [...]
Intel Connects the Dots
Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2003 EE Times has an interesting story on Intel’s wireless stategy to use CMOS.
In early May, Intel Corp.’s chief technology officer, Pat Gelsinger, offered his connect-the-dots vision of a wireless world with ubiquitous, seamless connectivity from network to network and from air interface to air interface. [...]
Short Note
Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2003 Notes from the PTP list:
In Toronto for the World Science Fiction Convention. They had no wireless.
Linksys WAP routers were on sale over at Eaton Center, $89CAD.
The convention now has wireless.
Keith Lofstrom [...]
Linux Comes Home
Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2003 Reuters reports that Linux is set to be the software of choice for future televisions, set top boxes and dvd recorders, according to consumer electronics executives at the industry’s largest trade fair, IFA, in Berlin.
Linux’s key advantage is that the core software is freely available and widely embraced. Linux’s [...]
Bellevue & Kirkland Unwired?
Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2003Glenn Fleishman points to a Seattle Times story that says the cities of Bellevue and Kirkland are considering free Wi-Fi as early as next year in key city areas.
The two cities have combined forces to spend $50,000 to $100,000 studying telecommunication business models this fall and hope to launch [...]
$169 Lindows BusinesStation
Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2003 Lindows.com today launched the BusinessStation, a powerful, low-maintenance computer designed for work terminals, public-access kiosks, in-store information hubs or other common businesses applications. The PCs cost under $200 and feature new management options.
BusinessStations combine the benefits of the successful $169 Webstation with a network based management tool which [...]
