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Archive for November, 2003

NeighborLink City Cloud

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

Muni Wireless reports that Nevada, Missouri, a town of 10,000 has commissioned a Wi-Fi network to be built in town, according to the Miami Herald. NeighborLink is building the network for the city for approximately $25,000. Subscribers will pay $35 to $120 per month for Internet access, but they first have to [...]

Eugene Kleiner

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

Silicon Valley pioneer Eugene Kleiner, whose ideas and money spawned a brood of high-tech giants, has died. He was 80. Kleiner died of heart failure last Thursday (November 20) at his Los Altos Hills, California, home, according to a family statement issued yesterday announcing his death. [...]

CellCo Hotspot News

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

SBC has unveiled pricing for their Wi-Fi push, and hopes to have 2,000 hotspots ready in their 13 state territory before year’s end. According to Internet News, SBC plans to offer three prepaid packages: $25 for three sessions; $50 for eight sessions; and $100 for 20 sessions (each session [...]

Jukebox Cloud

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

Inspired Broadcast Networks has created the world’s largest jukebox, offering more than two million MP3 tracks via a broadband connection. The jukebox can also sell albums and ringtones. Eventually, the manufacturer intends it to be capable of emailing tracks. Five thousand of the new broadband [...]

RF-ID in the Arm

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

Tech Dirt says there’s been a lot of hype lately about various attempts to add Paypass/FastPass/EZPass/SpeedPass/SomethingPass RFID-style payment technology to mobile phones. About the size of a grain of rice, the VeriChip contains a unique verification number that is captured by briefly passing near a proprietary scanner. [...]

Maine’s SensorNet

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

Take a sensor, any sensor. The one embedded in the seat of your car, for example, which determines that you’re present. This sensor performs the same function in the same way on every outing. That’s easy. Now, what if the sensor wasn’t stationary and had to transmit information over great [...]

Instant Messaging Goes Public

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

Instant messaging is taking over the funtions of more cumbersome teleconferencing software and adding new features such as GPS tracking. Case in point: NetMeeting. Infoworld reports that Microsoft is retiring its six-year-old NetMeeting, an online conferencing application. Instead it will push Office Live Meeting, formerly [...]

Sharp’s New Linux PDA

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

The Register reports that Sharp has formally announced the launch of the Zaurus SL-6000 - the latest generation of its Linux-based PDA. It will be a successor to the Zaurus SL-5500. Sharp will offer three versions of the new Zaurus, the 6000N, 6000L and 6000W, [...]

Tagging Photos with GPS

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

Microsoft released an early version of its World-Wide Media eXchange (demo), a centralized index of digital photos, where photos are tagged by the geographic location where they were shot. All of the WWMX-related downloads require the Microsoft .NET Framework (version 1.1) to run properly. As Smart Mobs reports, [...]

Expanding the Patriot Act

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 24th, 2003

Another good reason to burn your Safeway card; Congress approved a bill on Friday that expands the reach of the Patriot Act, reduces oversight of the FBI and intelligence agencies and, according to critics, shifts the balance of power away from the legislature and the courts. [...]