Network Computing reports that McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas is overhauling its baggage-handling systems to incorporate radio-frequency identification tags. McCarran is the first U.S. airport to commit to RFID on a large scale. Denver International Airport and Jacksonville (Fla.) have started small RFID trials, but [...]
Are newspapers dead, dead, dead? You bet. Case in point: Newsplex “where the futures of journalism and news technology intersect”. The partnership of The Ifra Newsplex at the University of South Carolina, Cingular Wireless and Textamerica will allow field journalists to photomoblog every detail of the [...]
An overview of Mesh Networking has been written by Tomas Krag and Sebastian B ettrich. They are wireless consultants working primarily on ways to promote the use of wireless technologies in developing countries. Their current project, the Wireless Roadshow, deals with enabling local communities and non-profits [...]
Unstrung reports that Intel has been talking up “WiMax” to carriers worldwide.
Top of Intel’s list of interested parties is European incumbent British Telecommunications, Hong Kong’s PCCW Ltd., Reliance Infocomm Ltd. (in India), Iberbanda (Spain), MVS Net (Mexico), Neotec (Brazil), and UK Broadband.
“We have been in discussions with [...]
Broadcom is boycotting the Chinese “security” standard. Broadcom’s CEO Alan Ross said Chinese regulations imperil the intellectual property of foreign suppliers by requiring them to share design information with local Chinese firms. According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, China has mandated that all Wi-Fi equipment sold in the country [...]
Nextel kicked off a lobbying campaign this morning designed to ratchet up interest in the so-called “Consensus Plan“. That plan gives spectrum to public safety interests in exchange for other frequencies Nextel could use for “4G”. The group includes the [...]
Being unemployed has its good points– you can stay up late and get drunk, which your DailyWireless editor did after last night’s Personal Telco meeting.
We had a good time chatting with Jim Thompson last night. Thompson, a likeable, gregarious guy, has a background in WiFi [...]
Tom’s Networking Reviews “Enhanced” 802.11g/a chips in his latest Need To Know series. It’s a follow-up to his Atheros Super-G Need To Know which took an in-depth look at the controversy surrounding Broadcom’s claims that the channel bonding used by Atheros creates interference throughout the band. [...]
Meetinghouse has announced client software that utilizes 802.1x for advanced network security; the AEGIS Client 2.2 for Windows XP/2000 and AEGIS Client for PPC 2002/2003. Features of AEGIS Client 2.0 for Pocket PC include: IEEE 802.1X authentication support for enterprises and OEMs on the Pocket PC (2002, [...]
A digital pony express is operating in Cambodia. The system, developed by First Mile Solutions, uses a receiver box powered by the motorcycle’s battery. Five Motomen ride their routes five days a week, downloading and uploading e-mail. The driver need only roll slowly past the school to download [...]
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