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Archive for December, 2003

New Year Camphone Coverage

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 31st, 2003

One man holds the key to the room deep under Times Square, where the only sounds are a hissing pipe and a rumbling subway overhead. Behind the blue, padlocked door are the pieces of the New Year’s ball that will mark midnight as it slides 77 feet down a pole atop [...]

No Sharing

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2003

Kevin Werback, who was at the FCC’s VoIP Forum, points out that Qwest CEO Dick Notebaert supports treating voice over IP as a largely unregulated “information service” in a Washington Times op-ed.
“Qwest is unique among the incumbent local phone giants, since it has a large Internet [...]

PCTEL + Intel + Micro-Star

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2003

Internetnews reports that PCTEL and Micro-Star International will bundle PCTEL’s soft access point software with its WLAN devices and PC motherboards. The joint offering converts any PC into an access point that can link several computers through a single broadband connection. Besides eliminating the need [...]

Mad Cow RF-ID

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2003

Shares of Minn.-based Digital Angel have doubled since the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Dec. 23 announcement of mad cow disease. Digital Angel’s RF-ID tags, used to track livestock and pets, are suddenly hot. “They have the only [Food & Drug Administration] and USDA-approved implantable microchip in livestock, explains [...]

Free USB Client

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 28th, 2003

Don Park writes:
A $10 USB wifi client with a $10 rebate! Once [Portland's] PTPnet is built out a little more, people are going to ask “how do I get on PTPnet”? I think its useful to keep an eye on the least expensive [...]

Earthquake First Responders

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 27th, 2003

The magnitude 6.5 Iranian earthquake, hit the historic city of Bam early Friday morning, destroying homes and trapping thousands under the rubble. Death toll from the 12-second earthquake is estimated at 25,000 and it could go much higher. Interior Minister Abdolvahed Moussavi Lari said on [...]

The Beagle Has Landed - All Over

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 27th, 2003

The $375 million Beagle 2, the first fully European mission to be sent to any planet, has been hailed as a triumph for British ingenuity and for European space exploration. Too bad it appears to be dead, dead, dead. The failure to pick up a signal from [...]

Wireless Security In 2003

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 27th, 2003

Wireless Security has a general overview of the wireless security happenings, a look back on some software tools, spotlight on interesting books, a brief rant on corporate security and a Q&A with three wireless security experts working at Funk Software, AirScanner Corporation and IBM. The Wi-Fi [...]

Free Video Moblog

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 27th, 2003

TextAmerica, the free moblogging solution, now offers the ability to post short videoclips to a moblog (via phonecams). Moblog hosting companies include:

Textamerica
Dot Photo

Fotolog
Buzznet
AutoPic
Blogger Pro
TypePad
FoneBlog
Fotopages
Phlog
Audblog
CamBlog
20six
Ploggle
albino gorilla
Photokyo
Rare Window
Uboot.com
AT&T Wireless
Cingular Mobile
Sprint PCS
Verizon Picture Messaging
T-Mobile Hiptop blogs
Hello (sharing)
mlogs (audio [...]

Year in Review: Part I

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 26th, 2003

It’s been an landmark year for wireless! Wi-Fi was everywhere, 802.16a got chips, cameraphones and data services became shagadelic, city cores got unwired, “4G” networks tuned in, satellite radio turned on and (some) WiFi pioneers dropped out. Let’s review some highlights archived on DailyWireless from January [...]