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Archive for October, 2005

Interview with FCC Chair

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2005

Business Week has an interview with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.
As he waits for the White House to fill vacancies that will give him a Republican majority, the FCC chief is now set to approve the historic mergers of SBC and AT&T, and of Verizon and MCI, by as early as the [...]

Navteq Adds Telcom Maps

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2005

NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation, has launched a new suite of telecom data content that is associated with NAVTEQ’s NAVSTREETS map database.
Branded Telecom for NAVSTREETS, associates telecommunications data with the NAVSTREETS maps to provide users improved precision usability.
The data sets include:

GeoTel MetroFiber routes: physical location of fiber optic [...]

Telco’s Left Behind in IPTV Armageddon?

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2005

Pyramid Research says telcos may be counting on IPTV to revitalize their businesses, but the competition they will face in the pay TV market will be expensive, relentless and possibly damaging. Cable and satellite providers are going to take on IPTV.
Satellite broadcasters have been experiencing significant growth, says Pyramid, including DirecTV, [...]

Cloud Security

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2005

Broadband Reports has an overview of security terms in their forum section this week. Much of the information is pulled from this white paper (pdf) from the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Wi-Fi Networking News, always a great source of insight on security matters, reviews the current state of the art.
WPA2 Support was the [...]

AirCell Demos Inflight WiFi

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2005

AirCell has completed an airborne demonstration program of its in flight WiFi system. Targeted for commercial deployment in 2007, the AirCell Broadband System will enable airline passengers to use their own Wi-Fi and cellular devices such as laptops, PDAs, phones and Blackberries in a fully integrated wireless cabin over an affordable, broadband air-to-ground link.

Aircell says [...]

New Server at DW

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 24th, 2005

Welcome to the new DailyWireless server.
We outgrew our old server which was perpetually dying on us the last month or so. It wasn’t helped by the perennial bad guy attacks DW seems to suffer from.
Maybe one of the reasons for all the attacks is that I discovered a cache of nearly a [...]

Spanish WiFi Video

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 24th, 2005

Wi-Fi TV Espanol launches today with 25 Spanish language TV channels available for live viewing over the Internet as well as Spanish language breaking news stories on automobiles, entertainment, music, moves and general news.
Wi-Fi TV’s branded virtual dialer for free PC to Phone and local and long-distance phone calls will [...]

Sprint/Cable Love Fest?

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 24th, 2005

Three top U.S. cable operators are reportedly close to a deal with Sprint Nextel to offer wireless service, raising the stakes in the cable industry’s battle with telephone companies. Multichannel News says a deal is imminent.
Comcast, Time Warner and Cox could be close to offering cell phone service using Sprint’s network as part [...]

Palm 650 Getting Blackberry Mail

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 24th, 2005

Palm’s Treo 650, may get BlackBerry’s push e-mail software, reports InfoWorld.
Starting early next year, Palm will implement the BlackBerry software alongside its VersaMail e-mail client in order to keep a familiar look and feel in place for Palm OS users, said Joe Fabris, director of wireless marketing for Palm. Treo 650s with [...]

Cico’s Push to Talk

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 24th, 2005

Cisco Systems demonstrated today a communications system designed to allow walkie-talkies and other devices used by emergency personnel. It will interoperate via the Internet Protocol and Session Initiation Protocol.
Many public agencies use push-to-talk radios using Land Mobile Radio (LMR) networks. Often, these radio networks remain isolated and do not work together with other wireless, voice, [...]