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Archive for October, 2004

Navini Unwires Georgia Town

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2004

Sandersville, Georgia, is implementing a non-line-of-sight (NLOS), multi-sector wireless system from Navini, said to be the first of its kind. The entire town and much of the surrounding area totaling up to 300 square miles is a giant wireless “hotspot” now. It provides high-speed wireless broadband connectivity to area businesses and [...]

Intel Inside Clearwire

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2004

Intel and Clearwire will jointly develop and deploy WiMax, the companies announced today. The agreement also involves a significant investment in Clearwire from Intel Capital, Intel’s strategic investment program. The joint development agreement with Clearwire is for future products supporting the upcoming IEEE 802.16e standard for WiMAX solutions found [...]

Nextel Undecided On Flarion

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2004

Unstrung reports that Nextel will decide early next year whether it will opt for Flash-OFDM or CDMA 1x EV-DO (Evolution, Data Only) as the technology of choice for its national wireless broadband network.

The carrier has already deployed a trial of Flarion Technologies proprietary Flash-OFDM technology in North Carolina (See [...]

Extended Range USB WiFi

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2004

NETGEAR today announced an 11g USB 2.0 adapter with Atheros XR technology. Atheros claims XR will double the range of 802.11a/b/g devices by using improved S/N and other tricks.

The WG111T 108 Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter joins Netgear’s recently-introduced Xtended Range [...]

Treo 650

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 24th, 2004

PalmOne’s new Treo 650 is a Palm OS-based handheld that doubles as a cellphone. The 650’s enhancements include a sharp, 320-by-320 color screen, a removable battery, and a better 640×480 camera with a 2X digital zoom which can capture brief video clips. It also has a built-in RealMedia, MP3 player that can [...]

Higgins On VON

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 23rd, 2004

Tim Higgins, a WiFi technical expert and one of the best technical writers around, visited the Fall VON show in Boston last week and has filed a report at Tom’s Networking:

…One of the most interesting sessions I attended was one that posed the question of [...]

Mobilizing WiMax

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 22nd, 2004

Wi-LAN today launched Mobilis, a pre-802.16e product, at the ITS World Congress 2004 (links), in Nagoya, Japan. Wi-LAN is initially targeting Mobilis at the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) market for real-time video surveillance, streaming advertising, and hotspot Internet access for passengers. On the move.

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Hotspot Photo Printer?

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 22nd, 2004

How do you generate revenue for hotspot operation? Starbucks plans to offer an $8 burn-your-own-CD service. Or you can download tunes for $.99. Sony’s new UP-DR150 digital photo printer, a dye sublimation printer with a suggested retail price of $2,595, may offer another approach. [...]

Unwired Countries

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 22nd, 2004

Taiwan’s government plans to blanket the country with wireless networks that are integrated with cellular phone services by 2008 as part of an ambitious $1.1 billion project, called M-Taiwan, reports Network World. Set to get underway next year, the M-Taiwan project has two principal goals: to dramatically expand wired [...]

SF/LA WiFi Cloud

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 22nd, 2004

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has set a goal of providing free wireless Internet activity in his city that sees itself as a vanguard of the Internet revolution. “We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless Internet service,” he said in his annual State [...]