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Archive for November, 2004

Barnes & Noble + SBC

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 23rd, 2004

Barnes & Noble and SBC today announced that SBC FreedomLink Wi-Fi service is now available at more than 600 Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide. The SBC FreedomLink connection allows Barnes & Noble and SBC customers to use their laptop computers and personal digital assistants to communicate online, surf the Internet [...]

Cellular Holiday

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 23rd, 2004

With the majority of cellphone sales happening over the holday season, cell companies are rushing to provide new products. Sprint, for example, is offering three new devices: Sprint will have an exclusive on the new PalmOne Treo 650 PDA phone through January. It costs $599 without contract and $449 with [...]

Low Income Housing Connection

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 22nd, 2004

Last week, developers of 18 affordable-housing projects in Oregon were awarded federal grants to install high-speed Internet connections in more than 450 apartments. Many are offering tenants free or subsidized monthly Internet service. The government program known as E-rate helped subsidize the wiring of schools and public libraries, [...]

BT to the Max

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 22nd, 2004

British Telecom has introduced a wireless broadband service that may serve as a precursor to WiMax. BT hopes the new technology will solve some of the “last-mile” problems in reaching large business parks. BT Business Symmetric Broadband will offer 2MB up- and downstream for 199 a month, with the [...]

Antartica Adventure

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 22nd, 2004

Joe Mastroianni is looking forward more than ever to Thanksgiving, reports EE Times this week.
After more than three weeks of 12-hour workdays, technical breakdowns and weather-induced project delays at work sites surrounding Antarctica’s McMurdo base camp, the intrepid engineer was headed back home last week to northern California, his [...]

WiFi Switch Machinations

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 22nd, 2004

Unstrung reports that Wireless LAN startup Trapeze Networks Inc. has updated its switch software to support more services across “mixed use” public and private 802.11 networks.
The main update that the firm has made is to drastically increase the number of “virtual access points” — ID channels that the switch sees as [...]

NTT Shuns Microsoft

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 22nd, 2004

Mike Masnick at The Feature has in interesting observation on NTT’s decision to shun Microsoft on its phones. MontaVista Linux has been the chosen backbone to the recently announced Panasonic N900iL and the NEC N901iC handsets:
NTT DoCoMo made a splash by announcing a new common platform for its [...]

Security For Dummies

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 22nd, 2004

Glenn Fleishman has an article called Hotspot Security for the Average Person in the Seattle Times. The two-part series explains how to secure yourself at a Wi-Fi hotspots. This week, he explains email protection. Next week he’ll explain session protection (with VPN and 802.1X). Fleishman [...]

Satellite Radio Adds Datacasting

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 22nd, 2004

WorldSpace, a pioneer of direct satellite delivery for digital audio radio services (DARS), demonstrated today Data-casting and IP Multicasting capabilities at the Global Military Satellite Communications Conference being held in London. With the new Data-casting and IP Multicasting capabilities service, clients can up link [...]

Laser Battle Stations

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 22nd, 2004

SlashDot has an interesting post on laser battle stations:
“Images of the Soviet Union’s laser space battle station Skif and its prototype Polyus have been published on the web. Polyus-Skif was the Soviet response to the American ‘Star Wars’ program of the 1980s. The Polyus was launched in [...]