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Archive for December, 2004

Time Warner Cable + Sprint?

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 29th, 2004

Time Warner Cable is reportedly working with Sprint on a deal that would allow the cable provider to offer cellphone service on a trial basis next year, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Time Warner is the country’s second-largest cable operator with nearly 11 million subscribers and would be [...]

Tsunami Monitoring

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 27th, 2004

The horrific tsuami this Sunday is one of the worst disasters in recorded history. The death toll has topped 150,000 with more than 500,000 estimated injured. Without clean water, respiratory and waterborne diseases could break out within days, putting millions at "grave risk," the U.N. children’s agency said. [...]

Texas Wifi

Posted by Don Park on December 27th, 2004

The state government of Texas is rolling out wi-fi to travelers and campers. Wireless internet access is coming to one hundred and two highway safety rest areas, according to this emediawire story. The service is being provided by Coach Connect with rates listed on their web page as $2/hour or $4/day.
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Merry Christmas

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 25th, 2004

DailyWireless wishes you a Merry Christmas.

Don Park and Sam Churchill thank you for your support and feedback. You are making it happen!

Digital Picture Frames

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 24th, 2004

The New York Times reviews digital picture frames. A digital frame can change images at the touch of a button or display a slide show. SlashDot says both Linux Toys and Wi-Fi Toys contain the chapters on creating Linux-based digital picture frames out of old laptops. Channel [...]

WiFi Cellphone

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 24th, 2004

Documents made public today on the FCC web site show that Samsung’s upcoming SCH-i730 PDA phone will include both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, in addition to CDMA EV-DO high-speed data. The i730, first revealed six weeks ago, is a CDMA Windows-Mobile Pocket PC device with a sliding QWERTY [...]

Griffith donates free WiFi/Computers

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 24th, 2004

Andy Griffith, who played everybody s favorite small-town sheriff on The Andy Griffith Show and later starred as Matlock , has donated free unlimited high-speed wireless Internet access to every school-age child in the town of Manteo, located in the outer banks of North Carolina. [...]

Airplane Cell Phones

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 24th, 2004

DailyWireless has been asked how people can respond to the FCC’s plan to allow cellphones on airplanes. On December 15, 2004, the FCC voted to examine whether to modify its rule prohibiting the use of cellular telephones on airborne aircraft (pdf). The Commission is permitted to begin [...]

EZ Podcasting

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 23rd, 2004

Stuart Henshall introduces SkypeCasting an easy method to record phone conversations on your computer for Podcasting:
For the last few days I’ve been recording podcasts using Skype. As the call ends with a couple of clicks it is converted to mp3 and uploaded to [...]

PocketPC/WiFi with Megapixel Camera

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 23rd, 2004

PocketPC City reviews the Asus MyPAL A730 a PocketPC with a 1.3 Megapixel camera, and two slots (both SD and CF). The ASUS A730W, with built-in Wi-Fi, was not tested in this review. The WiFi version sells for about $570 and has 128 megs of RAM. It features an [...]