The Indianapolis Colts and Chicago Bears aren’t the only ones preparing for Super Bowl XLI on Feb. 4th. Wireless providers and security personel have been hard at work the last six months. Some 100,000 people are expected to converge onto an area the size of a few city blocks around Dolphin Stadium in Miami.
AT&T’s wireless [...]
Boeing is scrapping plans to offer wireless in-flight entertainment in their new 787 Dreamliners, say Aero-News. The company couldn’t acquire regulatory approval from some countries to use certain frequencies, meaning they’d have to turn the service off while flying over those countries.
Boeing says it found the system’s broadband capacity might not provide a large enough [...]
The City of Atlanta is getting a metropolitan wireless network from one of their own — Earthlink.
EarthLink, which is headquartered in Atlanta, will provide 1 Mbps service in their standard configuration used in Philidelphia, Milpitas, Anaheim, Pasadena, Alexandria and most recently, San Francisco (still under final review).
Tropos Networks is used for their mesh network [...]
The Senate Commerce Committee is giving the National Telecommunications and Information Administration some congressional oversight on its billion dollar public-safety radio program, reports RCR News.
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and ranking member Ted Stevens (”Tubes”) said the “Interoperable Emergency Communications Act” is designed to give NTIA guidance in distributing $1 billion worth [...]
As part of its promotional efforts surrounding the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft said Wednesday that for 90 days after the debut of the next-generation operating system, customers would be able to use T-Mobile Hotspot Wi-Fi for free on laptops running Vista. Those with advance copies of the operating system would be able to [...]
Russia’s Golden Telecom in Moscow claims its network is the second largest in the world, with 6,7000 mesh access nodes covering 800,000 households.
The Golden Wi-Fi Network, in Moscow, has 50,000 registered users. They sign up through the Web site or at 7,000 Moscow retail locations selling scratch cards or via bank machines. Unlimited access [...]
LeMay said if we lost the war that we would have all been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he’s right. — Robert S. McNamara, The Fog of War
The SeeEye2Eye teleprompter lets you look directly at the webcam instead of at the screen when you’re video-chatting. But there are a couple kinks [...]
Gizmodo says the HDTV signal from the State of the Union address last night was a notable occasion, because all the networks were using precisely the same feed—the same cameras, same everything. The only difference was the network feed to you.
We took an HD gander at NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and HDNet, to see [...]
City-wide WiFi is great. But don’t expect it to reach inside your home. It’s WiFi. Expectations of ubiquitous service are fantasy.
What you need is an external client with antenna. Unfortunately, that solution can set you back $100 or more. Not exactly “free”. The magic number for MuniFi residential clients might be $29.95. Nobody has come [...]
The IMS Forum, an industry association promoting IP convergence, completed its first IMS Plugfest at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) in Durham, N.H. on January 19th.
The event was attended by Voice over IP vendors, Ditech, Empirix, Sonus, Sonus, Trendium, VOX, Ixia, Reef Point Systems, NE Technologies, Starent [...]
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