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Archive for November, 2003

Oregon Business Pow Wow

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 30th, 2003

 
3T   http://www.3t.nl ABTECH   http://www.abtechsci.com/ ACLARA   http://www.aclara.com/ AcousTech, Inc.   http://www.acoustech-inc.com/ ACSI  Advanced Custom Sensors, Inc.   www.acsensor.com ACT MicroDevices, Inc.    http://www.haleos.com/ Advanced Micro Silicon Technology   http://www.amst.co.kr/ Advanced Micromachines, Inc.   http://www.memslink.com , Advanced MicroSensors    http://www.advancedmicrosensors.com/ Advanced Sensor Technologies http://advsensortech.com/ [...]

One-piece Access Points

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 29th, 2003

Intel’s new Grantsdale chipset, to be released in the first half of next year, will eliminate the need for a separate wireless access point. Thanks to the Grantsdale chipset, Pentium IV desktop computers will be able to act as WiFi hubs. Today, Access Points and Wireless Routers (APs [...]

Buy Nothing Day

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 28th, 2003

Free Ebooks

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 27th, 2003

While looking for free e-books at Microsoft’s mslit.com, I discovered a treasure right in my own backyard. The University of Oregon’s East Asia Digital Library is chock full of interesting stories. Most work with Microsoft Reader and many multi-media files are available. Check ‘em out. [...]

Sputnik Upgrades Cloud Administrator

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 26th, 2003

Sputnik’s WiFi management software and access points (APs) are unique - dozens of inexpensive Wireless access points can be controlled from a single server. Now their management software has been upgraded to Sputnik Central Control 2.2 I missed the news earlier this month but WiFi Netnews and LinuxDevices [...]

Hacking Starbucks

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

Computerworld reports that a group of clever independent security analysts from the Shmoo Group has created a program that makes it easy for a hacker to slurp up your log-in information before you’ve even quaffed the foam on your cappuccino. The hacker can then use the information to obtain free [...]

HTML for Handhelds

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

The Opera Browser site has some good tips forAuthoring for Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) Most Web pages are not designed for devices with small screens. Opera’s Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) feature automatically makes a more device-friendly version of those pages. This means that your Web site probably already looks great in SSR [...]

Linux 2.6 for Christmas

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

The 2.6 version of the Linux core is expected in December and will be much more stable on arrival than its predecessor, said overseer Andrew Morton in an interview Tuesday. Torvalds, Linux’s lead developer and now an OSDL Fellow, and Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton this week [...]

More Wireless Technology Incubators

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

The Austin Technology Incubator has hired high tech entrepreneur Erin Defosse to run day-to-day operations of the organization and to eventually form a wireless technology incubator. More than 80 wireless companies operate in the Austin area and the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce recently cited wireless as a key industry. [...]

Everest WiFi Ad

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

Broadband Reports says Intel Centrino television ads have come under fire for depicting wireless users happily browsing while on Mount Everest. According to the Guardian, a television watchdog group has started an investigation into the ad after over 100 disgruntled users complained. The [...]