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Archive for February, 2007

Nokia to Offer Active Tracking/Alerting

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 27th, 2007

Nokia and WaveMarket, a pioneer in location- based services, have entered into collaboration to offer location-based tracking services to carriers worldwide. The reseller agreement will bring WaveMarket’s entire product suite to Nokia customers. WaveMarket applications include family safety, pet tracking, enterprise tracking, mobile location dating, mobile locations searches and StreetHive — a friend-finding and social [...]

Frontline’s 700MHz Pitch: Sharing is Good

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2007

“Cyberspace is being mapped all over the world, not just in the United States. It may be mapped by hackers who are trying to build large zombie farms. Or it may be hacked by terrorists working for themselves or for some other country to figure out how to attack the infrastructure of potential adversaries. For [...]

Ruckus Tiers MuniFi with $200 WiFi Box

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2007

Ruckus Wireless, which makes innovative, consumer-priced beamed WiFi devices, today announced a new one, the $200 MediaFlex Hotspot (HS). Ruckus says it delivers a collection of features and functionality not available in any low-end consumer product or high end enterprise system. Users can create multiple SSIDs on the repeater, each with unique characteristics — customized [...]

Portland Podcaster Is The Story

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2007

The Oregonian had a feature story on Josh Bancroft, super geek, in the Sunday newspaper. Josh is blogger extraordinare and a leader in Portland Social Media. You can read his Personal blog at TinyScreenfuls.com, see his Photos at Flickr, Videos at blip.tv, Feeds at Feedburner, Instant messages at Twitter, and Web favorites at del.icio.us, along [...]

WiFi Tracking Tags from AeroScout, PanGo & Ekahau

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2007

HIMSS07, the premier Healthcare IT show, taking place this week in New Orleans, featured new WiFi-based tracking tags from AeroScout and and PanGo among other announcements. AeroScout today announced the T3 Series, an advanced, feature-rich tag for asset and people tracking and real-time location solutions. It will build on AeroScout’s proven asset tracking with a [...]

WiFi Phones Reviewed

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 26th, 2007

Information Week reviews some popular WiFi phones. Skype and Vonage have each partnered with hardware manufacturers to release cell-like phones that can use their services via Wi-Fi networks, says Information Week. Traditional cell carriers are launching dual-mode phones that also run over Wi-Fi networks. T-Mobile is testing HotSpot@Home in Seattle. The service may be extended [...]