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Archive for March, 2004

Auto Mapping APs

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

Tom’s Networking says Propagate Networks has announced the availability of evaluation kits for its AutoCell self-configuring WLAN technology. AutoCell is firmware installed by manufacturing partners in 802.11 Access Points, L2/L3 switches (or WLAN Switches), and optionally in clients (phones, laptops, PDAs). The lightweight, embedded software creates self-configuring wireless LANs. Current [...]

VoIP Announcements

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

This week at the Voice on the Net Spring 2004 Conference, Jeff Pulver, the iconoclastic CEO of Pulver.com announced Vonage WiFi phones will be available later this year. The announcement follows yesterday’s announcement that AT&T’s CallVantage phone service will offer unlimited local and long distance Internet phone service for [...]

Great Wall for Software Access Point?

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 29th, 2004

Intel’s Grantsdale/Alderwood future may be restricted by the Chinese encryption standard. End users won’t be able to take advantage of a feature in Intel’s upcoming Grantsdale (i875P) and Alderwood chipsets that allows PCs to function as access points for a wireless network. Both Grantsdale and Alderwood chips share support [...]

Wireless MP3 Sharing

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 29th, 2004

tunA allows users to share their music locally through handheld devices. The mobile wireless application lets users “tune in” to other nearby tunA music players and listen to what someone else is listening to. Developed on iPaqs and connected via 802.11b [...]

Vivato At Port of Seattle

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 29th, 2004

Unstrung reports the Port of Seattle is installing four Vivato panels. Tideworks Technology installed four Vivato 802.11b switches to cover 190 acres of the outdoor containerized terminal, which they estimate can serve 100 simultaneous users. Tideworks worked with Psion Teklogix, which deploys wireless technology at seaports. Recent Vivato [...]

Blogger IS The Story

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 29th, 2004

The Oregonian, my local paper, had a front-page feature on the best blog in the state, Portland Communique (the One True B!x).
Since December 2002, b!X (pronounced “bix”) has published a weblog called “Portland Communique”, an earnest and at times obsessive “experiment in amateur reporting” that touches on everything from [...]

Telerama Does Seattle

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 29th, 2004

Nancy Gohring and Glenn Fleishman of WiFi NetNews cover Telerama’s WiFi expansion in Seattle. The Pittsburgh company’s plans to have 70 Wi-Fi hotspots in the Seattle area by year’s end.
Telerama buys the network infrastructure, builds the network, pays for the monthly DSL line required to connect the [...]

Microsoft CE & XBox

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 29th, 2004

The newest Microsoft embedded operating system, Windows CE 5.0, will be officially released this summer, but Microsoft will make a technology preview kit available for downloading at the Windows Embedded Web site on April 1st (no kidding). It includes more than 50 drivers optimized for a variety [...]

Live & Die in MPEG-LA

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 29th, 2004

Six major Japanese TV broadcasters have agreed with MPEG-4 licensing house MPEG LA on a new licensing scheme for free-of-charge digital TV broadcasting for mobile terminals. The agreement, says EE Times, uses the H.264 standard for the video codec, and may help overcome licensing impasses in other regions of the world. Meanwhile, QUALCOMM [...]

Spring VON Show

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 29th, 2004

The Spring 2004 VON Conference & Expo, March 28 through April 1 in Santa Clara, has a jammed schedule with a large list of speakers and sold-out their exhibitor space. Expect a raft of press releases. Tom’s Networking reports Level 3 Communications announced two new residential VoIP services, for [...]