Boston holds the 2004 Democratic Convention, July 26-29, bringing 35,000 Democrats, reporters and hangers-on into the city. The Convention and Vistor’s Bureau says attendees are pouring into Logan International and filling hotels in the Back Bay, Cambridge, and the Theater District. Preparations for wireless services have been underway for [...]
Lance Armstrong did it, becoming the first person in the 101-year history of le Tour de France to win cycling’s most prestigious race six times. Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor is 32. NPR’s Tom Goldman reviewed the odds. Armstrong pretty [...]
Josh Kinberg’s bicycle receives text messages and prints them in foot-high chalk letters. Then he blogs a digital photo and GPS map of the printing, all while the rider cruises along. Popular Science says the self-described “hacktivist,” other school projects have included Magicbike (a mobile Wi-Fi [...]
The latest edition of the Unstrung Insider is just too juicey to pass up. Here’s most of what they say: Unstung predicts a renaissance for the fixed wireless market with the forthcoming WiMax specification in 2005 (see WiMax: Last Mile Smiles and WiMax: How Far? How [...]
Campuses are a major growth area for wireless networks. Data from the Campus Computing Project show that the percentage of US colleges and universities operating wireless LANs more than doubled in recent years, from 29.6 percent in 2001 to 77.2 percent in fall 2003. This is fine by [...]
Yahoo launched a free photo service, yesterday, that lets people upload photos directly from their camera-equipped phones to their photo sharing site. Meanwhile, Google is buying a similar service from Picassa, a relatively powerful photo management tool. An integration of Blogger and Picassa could be coming in [...]
DailyWireless, would be remiss if we didn’t mention the WiFi tax in Japan already mentioned by The Register, SlashDot, TechDirt, WiFi NetNews, and others. Fleishman says:
The bill in Japan won t reach Parliament until 2005, at which point the legislators [...]
WIRELESS JAPAN 2004, the high-technology product show running July 21-24th, is a showcase for the latest technologies that may show up in the United States in 2 or three years. Gizmodo and Tech Japan have coverage. It’s where Atheros and NEC demonstrated the new Atheros [...]
The Seattle Times profiles Bothell-based Maverick Wireless. They build in areas with fewer than 50,000 residents. Maverick has a network in Kennewick and small tests in Silverdale and Poulsbo, Kitsap County. Their CITYWIDE WiFi services in Benton County, Washington, is one of their better known installations. Access fees range [...]
Boston’s FleetCenter — site of the upcoming Democratic National Convention (DNC) July 26-30th, has lots of unsecured WiFi hotspots, says Newbury Networks. Their recent war drive in Boston showed extensive amounts of Wi-Fi devices — mostly unsecure. The FleetCenter is at risk of attack, cries Michael Maggio, president of [...]
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