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Archive for March, 2004

Securing City Clouds

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 31st, 2004

WiFi Planet says when the Department of Defense pulled the plug on allowing Wi-Fi laptops in government offices, a trio of software and hardware vendors created a STORM: Secure, Tough, Online/Offline, Reliable Mobile. However, it was soon discovered such control was not easy with Wi-Fi becoming integrated into new laptops [...]

Open-source FOAF Nets

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 31st, 2004

From SlashDot:
“When Orkut, LinkedIn, Friendster, Zaibatsu and Tribe.net just don’t cut it, meet PeopleAggregator, an open-source, PHP-written, FOAF-based social network. There’s the site and there’s the source in case you decide to launch your own. I found out about PeopleAggregator reading this interview with Mark Canter on Read/Write Web [...]

Barrett Resigns from Qwest Board

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 31st, 2004

Qwest Communications announced the resignation of Craig R. Barrett as a director of the company, effective today. Barrett, the chief executive officer of Intel Corporation, had been a director of Qwest and its predecessor, U S WEST, Inc., since 1998. Barrett became Intel Corporation’s fourth president in May of [...]

RF-ID Live!

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 31st, 2004

Deploying RFID technology successfully is the focus of RFID Journal Live!, March 29-31, at the Chicago Hilton Conference in Chicago, has a packed agenda. With large organizations such as Wal-Mart, Tesco and the U.S. Department of Defense now committed to using RFID technology, the focus is shifting from pilots to deployments. [...]

Giant’s Stadium Hotspot

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 31st, 2004

“We’ve created one of the largest, if not the largest, hot spot in the world,” says Larry Baer, San Francisco Giants’ executive vice president and chief operating officer. The Giants claim SBC Park is “the first stadium with wireless Internet access”, although many others claim that distinction. [...]

VoIP on Windows CE

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

Microsoft said Wednesday that 22 major manufacturers, including NEC and LG Electronics, intend to create Internet phones with the newest version of Windows CE, a stripped-down version of the Windows operating system intended for handheld devices and set-top boxes. The new CE software, version 5, contains much improved technology [...]

RBOCs Get Last Mile Autonomy

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

The FCC will urge phone companies to negotiate out-of-court settlements about sharing access to local phone networks, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. The Journal said Kevin Martin, an FCC commissioner is expected to join with two of his colleagues in a letter urging the [...]

InnoTech 2004

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski will kick off InnoTech 2004, running March 31 & April 1st, at the Oregon Convention Center. Oregon’s Business and Technology Innovation Conference will feature dozens of exhibitors and a variety of tracks. Conferences and Keynotes for Wednesday March 31, 2004 and Thursday April 1, [...]

War of the Worlds: SBC Vrs T-Mobile

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

San Antonio-based SBC Communications on Tuesday announced SBC FreedomLink. SBC intends to offer Wi-Fi through UPS Stores and Mail Boxes Etc. locations. Their goal is 6,000 locations within three years. The deal between SBC and UPS is one of the nation’s largest deployments of commercial Wi-Fi [...]

Cable Zones

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

Time Warner Cable today announced the availability of a “Road Runner Speed Zone” in San Antonio. It provides free public Wi-Fi — to Road Runner customers. Businesses that sign up will be able to draw traffic from Time Warner Cable’s pool of 650,000 high-speed Internet customers across Texas who can [...]