Portland, like other U.S. cities, has one daily newspaper, a weekly Business Journal, a couple of alternative weeklies and minority publications like Asian Reporter, Hispanic News and The Skanner. They’re expensive to produce and distribute. Shift the paradigm with Blogging News. Give 25 [...]
Small Net Builder reports that a tiny Memory Stick WiFi card should be available in about a month. It apparently works only on Palm OS 5 devices. It won’t be especially power thrifty, or fast compared to other 802.11b cards because it “uses a 1-bit bus speed when transferring data to [...]
Urban Wi-Fi gridlock will happen in 2004, says Peter Kastner of market research firm Aberdeen Group. He says interference in urban Wi-Fi nets is close at hand in a report entitled “The Urban Wi-Fi Crash of 2004”. “Even if you are six feet away from your access point,” says [...]
Mike Masnick digs up the dirt on Major League Baseball. Seems that “rebroadcast rights” now include data: “If you’re watching the World Series these days, you’re used to hearing the familiar refrain towards the end of the broadcast that no “rebroadcast or retransmission” is allowed “without expressed written [...]
Toshiba today announced the Pocket PC e400 and Pocket PC e800 which are thinner and lighter than their predecessors, the e355 and wireless e755. The E800/805 comes with VLI’s VoIP software so users can make phone calls while inside wireless hot spots although users must sign up with [...]
EchoStar has lost its bid to take over a satellite that bankrupt Loral is building for DirecTV. Loral will now complete and deliver the DirecTV 7S satellite to DirecTV. Satellite broadcaster EchoStar, which runs the Dish Network, had offered $200 million for the satellite. They also offered to buy [...]
The Austin Wireless City Project launches today with seven publicly-available free wifi hotspots and 500 registered users. The hotspots, located in independently owned businesses and a non-profit organization, are the first to join the Project’s volunteer-run community network. “The Austin Wireless City Project is a collaboration with the Austin [...]
The city of Portland Oregon has a west ridge of hills running parallel to the river that flows through the center of the city. In the east there are a half dozen buttes and hills, including an active volcano. In northeast Portland a homeowner who [...]
The City of Hasselt, Belgium, is expanding a campus-wide WiFi network to provide hotspot access across its entire town center. The project allows citizens to access the Internet from anywhere in the metropolitan area’s commercial center without wires. Hasselt will be one of the biggest hotspots in [...]
While working in the computer lab at our Community Center last night, a coworker dropped by to hear how the World Series was going. I didn’t have a radio or tv handy so I popped into Major League Baseball (www.mlb.com) to find out. Turns out nobody [...]
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