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Archive for September, 2004

Wi-LAN + Radionet

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

Litegeous Wi-LAN and Radionet have formed a sales and marketing alliance to jointly market broadband wireless solutions that combine Wi-LAN’s pre-WiMAX Libra products with Radionet’s Wi-Fi Hotzone solutions (below).
Under the alliance, Wi-LAN will deliver products from Radionet (Helsinki, [...]

XM Satellite Radio Profile

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 29th, 2004

Wired has a profile on Lee Abrams and XM Satellite radio:
Seven years ago, Lee Abrams found himself in exile. He invented a music format called album-oriented rock, or AOR, which in the 1970s shifted the music industry’s focus from singles to albums and showed radio execs how [...]

Network Management Roundup

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 28th, 2004

WiFiNetNews summarizes recent announcements that enhance WiFi network management and quality of service.
Colubris introduced software that complies with 802.11e and supports quality of service mechanisms. It enables the deployment of voice and video applications. They’re also teamed with Vocera, that StarTrek-style voice badge. Netgear s AutoCell [...]

Video Blog TV Channel

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 28th, 2004

A new cable network (FAQ) is hiring vloggers and untrained, would-be digital reporters, reports Boing Boing. INdTV, the media company founded by former Vice President Al Gore and entrepreneur Joel Hyatt, is hiring video-bloggers or would-be correspondents and intends to go national. It could be Must-download TV.
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Flashing the Linksys 54G

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 28th, 2004

Broadband Reports says the latest version of HyperWRT ( version 1.4) - a third party free firmware update for the Linksys WRT54G and Linksys WRT54GS - was released last week.
Users in our Linksys forum take the new version for a spin and offer [...]

Tropos Mobilizes with In Vehicle WiFi

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 28th, 2004

Tropos Networks today announced a new high performance, high powered mobile Wi-Fi cell, the Tropos 4210 for in-vehicle deployment. Oklahoma City plans to use the 4210 in vehicles in their 400 square mile city cloud. The mobile infrastructure is composed of Tropos 4210 Wi-Fi cells installed [...]

Nancy Gohring Tests AT&T 3G

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 27th, 2004

Nancy Gohring reviews AT&T Wireless s new UMTS 3G cell data network in Seattle. WiFiNetNews notes that AT&T Wireless has their UMTS service in six markets while Verizon Wireless will roll out its EV-DO service in 11 more cities for a total of 14. Her report: [...]

Proxim AP 700 does Positioning

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 27th, 2004

Proxim’s new AP, the ORiNOCO AP-700 will support the draft for the 802.11e multimedia standard and full 802.11i-based security soon to be available via software upgrade in all the ORiNOCO line. The $599 unit will also feature more power with external antenna jacks and a sensor for intrusion detection. [...]

Lockmart/Boeing Get Satphone Contract

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 27th, 2004

Lockheed Martin has won the competition to build the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), a next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system that will provide significantly improved and assured communications for the mobile warfighter. The $6 billion mobile satellite contract for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), is a next-generation [...]

Intel Passes on Software Access Point

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 27th, 2004

C/Net and ExtremeTech report that Intel has abandoned plans to market a consumer desktop PCs with built-in Wi-Fi access points. According to Network Fusion, Intel had planned to deliver its Intel Wireless Connect product–a bundle consisting of a special memory controller hub chip for its Intel Express [...]