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.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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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’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 [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
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