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Archive for November, 2004

PC Mag’s Gift Guide

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 28th, 2004

PC Magazine’s Road Warrior Gift Guide has a fun selection of gadgetry. We copied and pasted a few. We’ll add our own wireless favorites later.
D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G730AP Wireless Pocket Router/AP
The portable and convenient Router/AP delivers 802.11g connectivity. [...]

WiFi Detector Roundup

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 28th, 2004

Handtops.com reviews five reasonably priced hardware WiFi finders. They include the; A. Smart ID WiFi Detector - WFS-1 B. PCTEL WiFi Seeker C. Kensington WiFi Finder Plus D. Hawking HWL1 WiFi Locator E. Canary Wireless Digital Hotspotter - [...]

Verizon Fights Back

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 27th, 2004

Verizon, stung with bad publicity over a bill to block Philadelphia’s WiFi “city cloud”, has marshalled their well oiled PR machine with a counter-attack:
Contrary to misleading claims by competitors, a recent telecommunications bill [House Bill 30] passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly represents the most aggressive, comprehensive broadband [...]

EV-DO: $15/month?

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 26th, 2004

Engadget has the goods on a great rumor (if true):
Verizon is currently test-marketinga new EV-DO wireless data plan called Mobile Media that costs fifteen bucks a month (the same as Sprint PCS Vision) and gives you unlimited data usage and access to their new streaming [...]

Wireless Barcode Scanning

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 26th, 2004

Using WiFi to handle baggage is the latest wrinkle at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. After your luggage is tagged with a bar code, it’s put on a conveyer belt and scanned several times by bar code readers until it reaches the right plane. Once loaded, baggage handlers can take [...]

Sprint Towers in Play

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 26th, 2004

Liberty Media, John Malone’s holding company that owns Starz Encore and other programming assets, is reportedly one of four companies bidding to acquire Sprint’s 6,500 cellphone towers. The auction could fetch as much as $1.2 billion for Sprint towers, with Sarasota, Fla.-based Global Signal (formerly Pinnacle Towers), and [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 24th, 2004

It will take 400,000 cubic feet of helium to blow up the 16 giant balloons and other attractions featured in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. The new cast of giant balloons features a 62-foot-tall SpongeBob SquarePants as well as an extra-large Chicken Little, who will require 50 wranglers to [...]

Omnibus Blues

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 24th, 2004

WiFiNetNews notes the Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) has been killed. The defunded grant program distributed $250 million since 1994 for innovative telecommunications programs, among them an innovative library/technology center in a small town (St. Helens) near me. Sascha Meinrath, the current treasurer for the Indymedia [...]

Dayton’s Ad-Supported Cloud

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 24th, 2004

The City of Dayton, Ohio is creating a free wireless cloud. City leaders said all a person needs is a WiFi card. The city is teaming up with the Harborlink Network. The new service will be paid through advertising. Free WiFi access will be available [...]

Multi-Tenant Broadband

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 24th, 2004

Multiband Corporation, which serves apartment buildings throughout the United States with voice, video and data services, announced today that it has secured new agreements for the deployment of Telkonet’s broadband PlugPlus system to deliver broadband over powerlines. Approximately 400 subscribers have been signed with services being initiated shortly. Telkonet will provide, [...]