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Archive for June, 2004

Ugly truth about mesh networks

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 28th, 2004

Ugly truths about mesh networks - they dont scale - for now.
As founder and CTO of a Wireless Mesh networking company, I have pondered long and hard about whether or not I should submit this.
The buzz on mesh networking certainly works in our favor. However, there [...]

MuniWireless City-Cloud Report

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 28th, 2004

Muniwireless.com, which tracks municiple broadband wireless deploymnets, is one year old. The website is an initiative of Lemon Cloud BV (based in Amsterdam), a legal and consulting firm devoted to tech companies.

To celebrate, author Esme Vos created a comprehensive pdf report which lists over [...]

World’s Fastest SMS Typist

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 28th, 2004

The Short Message Service has a new star. Kimberly Yeo, 23, typed a complicated 26-word message on her phone in 43.66 seconds, in a recent contest, making her the world’s fastest SMS typist. In heats held a few days ago in Singapore, she beat the previous record of 67 [...]

JavaOne 2004

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 28th, 2004

Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, IBM and other industry heavyweights are launching new products at the JavaOne Developer Conference, this week in San Francisco. E-Week has details. Sun’s J2ME Wireless Toolkit is meant for developing Java applications that run on cell phones, PDAs, and other small mobile devices running Linux or [...]

City Cloud Enablers

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 28th, 2004

Netopia announced a hotspot-in-a-box (pdf) today. Their $300 hotspot needs no computer; you just hook it to your DSL connection. Service requires a $40/month Netopia support fee (and probably at least $60/mo for local DSL). Netopia’s service allows individual retailers to set their own pricing for [...]

AT&T/iPaq Bluetooth/EDGE Connection

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 28th, 2004

AT&T Wireless will begin offering a bundled device and service package that enables a Bluetooth-enabled iPAQ, to access AT&T’s Wireless EDGE service by using a Bluetooth-enabled Nokia 6820 phone as a portable, high-speed modem. The company stated that while many business customers want integrated voice and data-capable PDAs, [...]

Netgear Portable AP

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 28th, 2004

Netgear’s WGR101 54 Wireless Travel Router, is a pocket-size 802.11g router designed for supplying WiFi in hotel rooms or conferences. It provides added security with a double firewall along with routing functionality, and can be used in both single and multi-user environments. Tim Higgins explains a three-mode [...]

More City Clouds

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2004

Computer World overviews recent “city cloud” announcements including those in Spokane, Rio Rancho, N.M. and Cook County, Ill. Yesterday, Spokane, Wash., turned on a 100-block area of downtown. And the city of Rio Rancho, N.M., located 22 miles north of Albuquerque, plans to turn [...]

IEEE Scores 802.16d

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2004

C/Net and ZD Net report the official IEEE approval of 802.16-REVd/D5 (WiMax) occured yesterday, June 24th, 2004. Products based on the new fixed wireless standard (802.16a, revision d) aren’t expected until late this year. A major rollout is anticipated in 2005 (after WiMAX conformance testing). [...]

Media Consolidation Hits a Snag

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2004

The FCC s new media ownership rules, were largely rejected by the U.S. Appeals Court for the Third Circuit yesterday (June 24). The FCC wanted to increase Big Media ownership to 45%. It was opposed by Congress, which eventually compromised on a 39% limit. Group owners currently can’t own [...]