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Archive for February, 2005

President’s Day

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 21st, 2005

Writer Jim Ruland offers this commentary on NPR after a recent reunion of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group that organized to discredit Sen. John Kerry during the elections last year. Ruland traveled to the event with his father, who was part of the group. [...]

Higgins Reviews Linksys MIMO

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 21st, 2005

Tim Higgins has a comprehensive review on the MIMO-based WRT54GX. The Linksys WRT54GX is one butt-ugly access point. But it performs well — if you need the range and speed and don’t mind non-standard “pre-N” gear.

IntroductionBasic FeaturesInternal details moreSetup and AdministrationRouting PerformanceWireless [...]

Voice Over WiFi Mutates

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 21st, 2005

The Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) market has experienced much hype says a Research and Markets report; “Voice over Wireless LAN: Come On and Feel the Noise“. Much of the interest has surrounded the combination cellular and Wi-Fi handsets, with a vision of the end-user being able to switch seamlessly between cellular and [...]

Philly Site Survey

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 21st, 2005

MuniWireless interviewed Greg Richardson of Civitium about the radio frequency (RF) study that his firm conducted for Philadelphia from November 2004 through January 2005 in preparation for the deployment of the city’s wireless broadband network.
Civitium performed spectral analysis throughout the city’s 135 square miles (350 square kilometers) [...]

Rural Fiber Comes Home

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 21st, 2005

Optical Solutions today announced that Consolidated Telecommunications Company (CTC) of Northern Minnesota will deploy Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) using gigabit Ethernet passive optical networks (GPON) as part of a competitive build-out to 15,000 potential customers in Brainerd, Baxter and Nisswa, Minnesota. Last summer, after constructing a publicly financed fiber backbone [...]

Rural Michigan Gets Broadband

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 21st, 2005

Rural Communications, which provides local phone and broadband service to rural communities, has turned up service in Mottville, Constantine, and other small towns in rural Michigan. This initiative is being backed by the USDA Rural Development and part of a St. Joseph County wide plan [...]

Oregon Fiber for Google

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 19th, 2005

Google is planning a new tech center in The Dalles, Oregon (pop. 12,000). The availability of fiber played a big role in attracting Google — municipally-built fiber.
The small Oregon community, in the picturesque Columbia River Gorge, is connected to NOANET (Northwest Open Access Network), a private cooperative that [...]

Live Journal Moves Out

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 19th, 2005

Five years ago Brad Fitzpatrick had a tiny open source community journaling project called LiveJournal. The Portland, Oregon-based company has since become popular, with over six million users, hundreds of posts per minute, and daily mentions across the planet. Live Journal is developed and run at Danga.com, which forms the [...]

Publishers Buying Online Content

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 18th, 2005

Book publisher Random House is getting into the mobile content business. The publisher has inked a licensing agreement and taken a “significant minority stake” in wireless applications developer Vocel. The content licensing deal involves Random House’s Living Language and Prima Games, which publish foreign-language self-study programs and video game strategy [...]

Software for Wireless Camera

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 18th, 2005

Idruna Software says their Pocket Phojo 3.0, a PocketPC photo editing application, is now able to use Nikon’s WT Wireless Transmitters, ushering in a new era of high speed news gathering. The PocketPC photo editing software can be more expensive than the PocketPC hardware it runs [...]