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 that starts at the beginning. He was the Chief [...]
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. As Tim Higgins explains, “enhanced” speeds are available from [...]
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, 2003) and CE. NET (4.1. 4.2) operating systems [...]
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 all the village’s outgoing e-mail and deliver [...]
Intel is expected to launch its next-generation XScale, codenamed ‘Bulverde’, sometime this year. The chip maker announced Bulverde last September at Intel Developer Forum. The next IDF kicks off in the middle of February, and it’s very possible that the company will use the event to fulfil its promise of revealing more about Bulverde’s features [...]
Backers of WiMAX hope it could be used as a replacement for T1 lines for business, become a backhaul for 802.11 hotspots, provide Internet access for consumers and get integrated along with .11 into notebook computers some day. But it won’t be easy, as this EE Times article explains. One immediate puzzle is how to [...]
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