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Archive for April, 2004

ISP in a Trailer

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2004

Does your group or organization need access to the internet in a remote location? The NomadISP kiosk can come to the rescue. It’s a complete “ISP in a trailer”. It utilizes a 2-way satellite connection, solar panels, four internet ready workstations, and WiFi internet [...]

Sleeper Cells

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2004

Telecommunications tycoon Craig McCaw is getting into the fixed wireless game and he’s using the assets of Arlington-born Clearwire and NextNet, to do it, reports the Dallas Business Journal. Clearwire, which supplies high-speed, wireless Internet access, was recently combined with a McCaw organization in Kirkland, Wash. [...]

Motia Moves Out

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2004

Motia, a fabless semiconductor company focused on enabling smart antennas for wireless systems providers, today announced that Hawking Technologies, a provider of networking equipment, has selected its Javelin 802.11 smart antenna chip for its future products aimed at enhancing users’ wireless experiences. “The current Wi-Fi range extending products in the [...]

Sprint’s PCS/WiFi Card

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2004

The Sprint PCS Connection Card model PC3300 provides both cellular and WiFi access for Sprint users. The wireless PC card includes Sprint PCS Connection Manager software, jointly developed by Sierra Wireless and Sprint. In addition to managing connectivity to Sprint’s wide-area 3G network, the software allows users to conveniently [...]

Washington Mall Hotspot

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2004

The Open Park Project, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit, launched the first public outdoor wireless Internet hotspot in the nation’s capital today. The free service provides coverage in front of the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and the Capitol Visitors’ Center site. The Capitol Hill hotspot is the initial [...]

New Palms

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2004

Tomorrow, PalmOne will unveil two new consumer PDAs. PalmOne bought Handspring last year, makers of the multipurpose Treo smartphone line. This week’s new products, however, are very much traditional PDAs. PalmOne’s Zire 31 ($150) and Zire 72 ($300), offer color screens, improved personal information [...]

Extreme Networking

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2004

EE Times reports that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is pushing beyond Ethernet and Internet Protocol to peer-to-peer networks and mesh networking. MeshNetworks’ enhancements to DARPA’s technology include extending it beyond a closed network to one that can interconnect to the public telephone network and the Internet and [...]

Possio PX30 One Piece AP

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2004

Austin’s Less Networks has a great solution for free community wireless networks. Their free wifi hotspot software will be available for a download or on a CD. It includes the Red Hat distribution and NoCatAuth. It has not been tested against other flavors of Linux. It requires at least Pentium-class, 64MB RAM, 500MB [...]

PHP & SQL Security

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2004

SlashDot says, “PHP and SQL Security are being proven more weak every day. Uberhacker.Com is running a PHP and SQL security research project to raise awareness of secure scripting. The site hosts guides to secure PHP programming, forums, and scripting challenges to see who [...]

Navini Adds VoIP

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 27th, 2004

Net2Phone and Navini will jointly deliver Net2Phone s broadband telephony services over Navini s wireless broadband network, extending the flexibility and mobility of VoIP calling. Net2Phone has adapted its residential broadband telephony solution called VoiceLine to enable communications over wireless IP networks. VoiceLine provides inbound and outbound calling [...]