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Archive for October, 2003

Mobile Media Gets Hot

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 22nd, 2003

Chippendales Entertainment will spice up mobile phones marketed by ClearSky Mobile Media, an Orlando-based company dedicated to enabling multimedia content and applications. Photos, greeting cards, and many more services incorporating the famous Chippendales men will soon be available. The men of Chippendales will soon show up as screen savers and [...]

Padcom’s TotalRoam CDPD Upgrade

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2003

Padcom today announced a service to help public safety agencies transition from analog cellular-based Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) networks to digital cellular CDMA and GPRS data networking. TotalRoam enables roaming by creating a mobile virtual network capable of supporting any combination of RF, CDPD, GRPS, and iDEN [...]

Flickenger Reviews Embedded PCs

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2003

Rob Flickenger author of Building Wireless Community Networks and Wireless Hacks, reviews four PC-compatible hardware solutions you can buy–without breaking the bank–to build and run your own custom access point. PC-compatible hardware is capable of serving as an access point. If budget is a concern, you can [...]

Corn Power

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2003

Looking for an alternative energy for your Hot Spot? Have you considered Water Power, Corn Power or Nuclear Power?
Canadian researchers have generated electricity from flowing water which could provide power for anything from mobile phones to the national grid. Turbines are routinely used to convert the [...]

iTunes A Hit on Windoze

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2003

Apple has sold more than 1 million songs in less than four days after launching a Windows version of its iTunes music download site. “Our competition isn’t even out of the starting gates yet,” taunts Steve Jobs. Apple claims at least 70 percent of all legitimate music [...]

Loea Does 70 GHz

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2003

Broadband Wireless Magazine reports that Loea claims to be the first to deploy systems using the 70 GHz to 90 GHz spectrum bands. The FCC recently opened these bands for commercial use, allocating more than 10 GHz of upper millimeter wave spectrum. The bands [...]

Birdstep Flies Free

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2003

Birdstep Technology is deploying their IP Zone software in a wireless operator`s headquarters. Birdstep’s IP Zone Server and Nomadic Portal enable secure and continuous connectivity between WLAN Zones and GSM/GPRS networks. Birdsteps technology can provide local free and billable services, device-independent [...]

Vocera 2.0

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2003

WiFi Planet reports that Vocera Communications, is upping the security on their tiny Wi-Fi badges. A new version of its software beefs up wireless security and adds several new features such as voice-initiated paging, urgent calling and support for digital telephony. The $350 Communications Badges [...]

Vivato In The Park

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2003

The restored and improved Wade Oval park, a 7-acre public park located in Cleveland’s University Circle and surrounded by cultural institutions, is getting free wireless thanks to a Vivato WiFi switch. Case Western Reserve University announced the first expansion of the OneCleveland Project, (news articles), some months back, signing six [...]

EV-DO PC Card

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2003

Sierra Wireless announced today the addition of the AirCard 580, a wireless wide area PC Card for notebook computers scheduled for commercial availability in Q1 2004. Designed to operate over CDMA2000 1xEV-DO networks, like those offered by Verizon in Washington DC and San Diego, the AirCard 580 will provide [...]