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Archive for September, 2004

Balloon Tales

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 30th, 2004

Here’s just the ticket for your metropolitan event; the Urballoon. A balloon equipped with a projector and wireless connection enables people to submit content online and broadcast it in public spaces. The ball is tethered and floats at a height of approximately 3 stories. The images [...]

Jukebox + WiFi

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 30th, 2004

A digital media software platform for pay-per-use jukeboxes and other digital media vending devices, will begin offering wireless Internet access through its national network of digital-downloading jukeboxes. Pronto Networks, a leading provider of carrier-class operations support systems will manage the large scale Wi-Fi networks. Through their new Ecast Unplugged [...]

SipPhone Ticked Off

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 30th, 2004

Broadband Reports says Vonage has struck deals with both Linksys and Netgear to create routers that integrate telephone adapters specifically designed to work with only with Vonage VoIP service, then pitching those products in retail chain stores.
Upstart VoIP provider SIPphone isn’t happy about this, and has sued both [...]

Netgear’s HomePlug Gets G

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 30th, 2004

Netgear today announced the a Wall-Plugged Wireless Range Extender that uses powerlines to link 802.11g access points. The compact kit consists of the new WGX102 54 Mbps Wall-Plugged Wireless Range Extender and the XE102 Wall-Plugged Ethernet Bridge.

It utilizes a combination of HomePlug and 54 Mbps 802.11g [...]

Captive Portal & 802.1X

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 30th, 2004

Search results for Wi-Fi captive portal turns up lots of interesting and useful links but David Cook, over at Tom’s Networking, may have the best tutorial: How To: Using m0n0wall to create a Wireless Captive Portal. The m0n0wall [reviewed here] implementation of a Captive Portal was [...]

Nokia LifeBlog Turns 1.0

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

Lifeblog 1.0 is Alive and available for purchase from Nokia’s Lifeblog website. It plays well with Nokia’s megapixel 7610 camphone. All about Symbian also has a review. Lifeblog is described as an Automatic Multimedia Diary
What do we mean by [...]

The Spectrum Coalition

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

From the deck outside his Pier 69 office, Mic Dinsmore can see a dozen towering container cranes unloading ships at the Port of Seattle’s bustling terminals. As the Port of Seattle’s chief executive, the sight of so much waterborne commerce is reassurance that the engine of international commerce [...]

Linksys + Verizon = VoIP

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

C/Net and CNN/Money report that Linksys announced today that Verizon will use Linksys home networking adapters with Verizon’s VoiceWing broadband phone service. The new VoiceWing service allows customers to use their DSL (digital subscriber line) or cable broadband connection to place telephone calls over the Internet [...]

WiMax Testing

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

When Scott Richards is at his home in Portland, Ore., he uses a WiMax connection to connect to his office about 5 miles away, reports SF Gate.
The Intel executive connects using an antenna on top of his office building. “There’s a row [...]

UWB Chips Do WiFi

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

Startup Pulse-Link demonstrated Wednesday (Sept. 29) the ability to simultaneously support ultrawideband (UWB) and narrowband wireless, such as WiFi, on the same chip, at the Ultra Wideband Conference being held in San Jose, Calif. During the UWB conference, Pulse-Link showed UWB communications across in-home electrical wiring, UWB communications on [...]