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Archive for July, 2005

Duopoly Laws?

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2005

 
Telephony Magazine says advocates of community broadband networks are already planning to fight some segments of Sen. John Ensign s telecom reform legislation and they may have an advocate in one of his co-sponsors.
The Ensign/McCain Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act is strongly opposed by municiple wireless advocates because it tends to create a duopoly [...]

Firefox on PPC

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2005

 
Mozillazine has the latest on their new tiny browser, Minimo 007 On PPC. It may compete with the Microsoft’s Explorer for PPC (included with all Pocket PCs), Sony’s new PSP Browser and Mobile Opera, sometimes found on Nokia’s Symbian phones.
Doug Turner has released Minimo 0.007 for mobile devices running Windows CE. This latest release, which [...]

Digital Music Systems

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2005

 
Om Malik thinks digital music systems are hot:
The latest is San Francisco-based Olive, which has just launched Symphony, a wireless music hub powered by IBM PowerPC. 

 
 
It has an 80GB hard-drive, which holds up to 20,000 songs. The integrated CD database identifies, tags and archives the CD automatically. The device had a panasonic CD burner, and [...]

Wireless Cable Buzz

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2005

 
At the annual meeting of the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, or CTAM, in Philadelphia this week, the big buzz was about mobility, says Wired Magazine.
The so-called triple play, where cable companies offer TV, Internet and telephone service is so last year. Now it’s the quadruple play — including a wireless platform.
After all, customers [...]

Sprint + Comcast

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2005

 
Sprint today announced an arrangement with Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, to provide connectivity between traditional phone providers and Comcast’s Digital Voice in select markets.
Comcast’s Digital Voice, is Comcast’s new voice service using Internet protocol. This deal represents Sprint’s continued expansion into the cable market. It does not involve Comcast as a vitual network [...]

Good News from DailyWireless

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2005

 
DailyWireless has some great news to report:
Our co-founder, Don Park was elected the President of Portland’s PersonalTelco last night (meeting notes). David Poole, Editor-n-Chief of News4Neighbors, has great coverage on last night’s PTP meeting.
 

 
PersonalTelco is a volunteer-run, 501(c)3 that has installed hundreds of active hotspots (map) around Portland that are available to the public at [...]

Yahoo 360

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 27th, 2005

 
Yahoo 360 came out of invite-only beta late last month, and tightly integrates Yahoo! services (Launchcast music, Flickr photos, Yahoo! Messenger, and Groups) in one place.
 

 
You can set up your 360 page with RSS feeds from any source and control who sees what (friends, public, private) and display your Flickr photostream on your page.
Yahoo! 360 [...]

DailyWireless Back Up

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 27th, 2005

 
DailyWireless was down for a couple hours this afternoon. Turns out our disk was full.
Thanks for your patience.
- Sam and Don.
 

Portland Cloud Meeting Tomorrow

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 27th, 2005

 
Randall Lucas writes in News 4 Neighbors:
 

 
“The City is holding a public meeting on Thursday to discuss the Unwire Portland Project, where your public assets (rights-of-way on light poles, etc.) will be turned over to a private developer to build a for-profit wireless network.Happily, the City is insisting on a public benefit to be achieved [...]

USGS Aero Wireless

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 27th, 2005

 
WiFiNetNews says a North Carolina research firm is flying drones into Mt St. Helens, using Wi-Fi for telemetry.
 

 
RTI International will fly drones with cameras and Wi-Fi equipment over Mt. St. Helens. The drones will form an in-air network and will be able to relay to ground stations. RTI is working on the project for Advanced [...]