If anyone can claim to be the “father” of community LANs, it might be Matt Peterson who founded Bay Area Wireless Users Group after his first wireless adventure, PlayaNET (an internal network for the annual Burning Man event back in 2001). Matt Peterson, Rob Flickenger and others built the foundation of what was to become [...]
Smart Valley, an initiative of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network (JVSVN), the San Mateo County Telecommunications Authority (SAMCAT), and Intel today announced the signing of an agreement to develop a Request for Proposal to design a high-speed wireless data network that will cover all of Silicon Valley.
The Smart Valley initiative envisions a broadband canopy covering [...]
AnchorFree, the free ad-supported WiFi service in San Francisco, has tapped into MySpace to promote their free Wi-Fi service (and build community). It’s working.
Literally over night their 1-day-old profile went from 1 friend (Tom) to 80 friends, says AnchorFree Communications Director, Denis Hiller. And that was yesterday. Today, AnchorFree has 185 friends.
AnchorFree Wireless provides [...]
Ubiquiti Networks has developed a product that may be just the ticket for many metropolitan networks that have difficulty getting their signal to users cost/effectively. Ubiquiti’s Frequency Freedom technique transforms standard 802.11 silicon into a hi-power 900 MHz mini-PCI radio module. Other frequencies are available, too
Robert Pera, President of Uniquity, explained to DailyWireless that they [...]
Singapore’s first WiMax-ready base station is up and running, with commercial services beginning this March. QMax Communications today unveiled plans to offer pre-mobile WiMax services initially to selected estates across the island-state. The wireless broadband ISP is a joint venture between ISP Qala Singapore and entertainment equipment maker Creative Technology, the MP3 rival to Apple [...]
CBS and Warner Bros announced today that they have jointly formed a new 5th broadcast network. The CW, as it is to be called, will be launched in the fall of 2006.
CBS Corp., which owns UPN, and the WB, owned by Tribune Co. and Time Warner Inc., will start the new network in September. The [...]
Make Magazine has a story on how to make inexpensive panoramic video. Dennis Gliksman used duct tape and 6 wide angle firewire video cameras ($129 each).
Panoramic video is like a QTVR window into a scene. With movement all around. The Omnidirectional Vision Page has a terrific overview of 360 degree video techniques.
The problem with [...]
Wi-Spy claims to be the world’s smallest 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer.
The $99 USB dongle costs a fraction of traditional spectrum analyzers and has been designed specifically for troubleshooting and analyzing Wi-Fi networks. It shows the signal strength for all Wi-Fi networks as well as Bluetooth, 2.4 GHz cordless phones, microwaves, Zigbee, and all other 2.4 [...]
The Broadcast Flag is back. Last year Hollywood studios, broadcasters, the MPAA and RIAA tried to pass legislation that would require computers and video hardware to have digital rights management hard-wired inside. The “Broadcast Flag” prevents recording of of programing unless the content provider gives permission.
The stated intention of the broadcast flag was to [...]
“The rumor of my demise has been greatly exaggerated.” - Mark Twain
Globalstar, the satellite phone provider in competition with Iridium, announced today that it has been granted authority by the FCC to offer Ancillary Terrestrial Component services (ATC) in the U.S.
Globalstar will now be able to use 11 MHz of its allotted radio frequencies [...]
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