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Archive for February, 2005

The Battle of Lafayette

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2005

Broadband Reports has news on the Muni battle in Lafayette, Louisiana:
The city of Lafayette, Louisiana is trying to get a triple play fiber-optic network off the ground, despite legal opposition from Cox and BellSouth (USAToday has an excellent primer on the fight). Bellsouth has now informed the [...]

Kevin Sites’ Blog

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2005

Xeni Jardin has the inside story on Kevin Sites Blog:
Exactly two years ago today, I emailed Kevin Sites to ask if he’d ever considered doing a blog. My friend John Parres had been forwarding me copies of Kevin’s incredible first-person accounts of life as a front line war reporter [...]

Bridging the Divide

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2005

The New York City Council unanimously adopted a resolution to provide low- or no-cost high-speed Internet access to affordable housing residents. Res. No. 669, calls upon City agencies to use their funding and regulatory power to support and encourage the provision of affordable high-speed Internet service and computer purchases for [...]

TED 2005

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2005

Four months ago, musician Bono, photo-artist Edward Burtynsky, and inventor Robert Fischell — were each granted THREE WISHES as winners of the inaugural TED Prize. They were given time to formulate their wishes and strongly encouraged to THINK BIG in order to impact life on this planet. TED agreed to spend $100,000 on [...]

Chinese Protest WiFi Security

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 25th, 2005

China walked out of a wireless standards meeting this week, accusing the International Organization for Standardization of favoring the IEEE’s 802.11i ANSI-certified wireless LAN security scheme over its own controverisal proposal, EE Times has learned. China’s Wireless Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) security scheme was withdrawn and placed on a [...]

VOIP + Video + WiMax?

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 24th, 2005

Is VoIP the key to WiMax? Silicon.com suggests it might be:
WiMax, the 802.16-2004 wireless standard that will provide broadband Internet access over many miles, is not expected to enter the mainstream until 2007. But when it does, WiMax providers would be wise to bundle VoIP to make enough money for survival. [...]

LPTV Unused

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 24th, 2005

Reuters reports that FCC regulators are looking into a report that scores of low-power television licenses are not being used. They were designed in part to serve rural communities. The FCC is reviewing a charge by the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan watchdog, that MS Communications LLC had more [...]

Ekahau Opens Up

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 24th, 2005

Directions Magazine says Ekahau, which makes a WiFi tracking system, has launched a new partner program called Located By Ekahau (LBE). It will give away distribution rights to its client software and source code. [Of course you have to buy their pricey tracking software] Any vendor could [...]

Mobile Apps Multiply

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 24th, 2005

A few days ago in the UK, New Media Knowledge sponsored an evening roundtable event looking at the latest trends and social and commercial aspects of mobile communities with Communities on the Move. They included: Murmur, a geo-tagging project [...]

Sony Kills PSX

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 24th, 2005

Gizmodo says Sony is killing the PSX media center in Japan. The PSX was the hybrid Playstation 2 and DVR machine, which launched with much fanfare in Japan. The PSX combines features of the PlayStation 2 console with a DVD burner, hard drive video recorder and music player. [...]