“Unlicensed access to white spaces is the potential “rocket fuel” for broadband in underserved communities.”
– Professor Harold Feld
The FCC (live video) on Wednesday is expected to announce rules for the 700MHz band, one of the most important wireless spectrum auctions in the foreseeable future, reports C/Net.
It determine how they divvy up licenses and auction them [...]
James Doohan (“Scotty”), is beaming up into zero gravity this weekend, along with the remains of Patricia Murray, a StarTrek fan, and L. Gordon Cooper, one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.
This is the sixth memorial spaceflight of Celestis, a Houston company that contracts with rocket firms to send cremated remains into space. Capsules and [...]
Here are a couple of tidbits for wireless snacking:
Apacheta Corporation says snack food company, Lance, has implemented their Apacheta RouteACE software running on Motorola’s MC9090 mobile computers for route sales and delivery operations. It reaches more than 1200 routes with 1500 by the end of this month.
By using RouteACE on a Motorola MC9090 mobile computer [...]
The President’s Identity Theft Task Force Strategic Plan to combat identity theft was released yesterday (pdf). The strategic plan is the end result of a joint effort by a 17-agency task force, co-chaired by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FTC Chairman Deborah Majoras, to formulate a comprehensive and fully coordinated plan to attack this widespread [...]
Buffalo announced two new AirStation routers today, notes Engadget. One is a draft 802.11n (Wireless-N Nfiniti Router WZR2-G300N), the other g (Wireless-G High Speed Router WHR-G125).
Both units support Buffalo’s easy security setup, a four port 10/100 switch and WPA2. For added convenience, it works seamlessly with Nintendo’s DS Wi-Fi. The product replaces the [...]
Market researcher ABI Research forecasts that in 2007, worldwide Wi-Fi hotspots will grow by nearly 25%, to 179,500. While almost three-quarters of these sites (72%) are still found in North America and Europe, the Asia Pacific region is growing very rapidly.
Growth in China has been much slower than originally thought. Still, the Asia Pacific region [...]
C/Net explains how to secure your home wireless network — in pictures.
This slide show assumes that you have a working wireless router. For our network we’ll be using a Linksys Wireless-G WRT54GS router plugged into a Dell XPS 600 desktop along with a wireless-enabled Acer Travelmate 8200 laptop, both machines running Windows XP SP2.
Over [...]
A coalition of 21 small- and medium-sized carriers and state regulatory agencies are worried the FCC is leaning toward a 700 MH band plan largely favoring large geographic licenses over small ones for auction later this year, reports RCR News.
Proponents of the Balanced Consensus Plan include Alltel, Aloha Partners, Dobson Communications, Leap Wireless, MetroPCS Communications, [...]
Time Warner Cable will let its home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hotspots, reports the Associated Press and confirmed by GigOm.
The deal uses hotspots from FON and use Time Warner Cable for the backbone connection. Ironically, Time/Warner Cable has been among the most aggressive is shutting down public WiFi hotspots that use [...]
Belair Networks announced two innovative mesh networks going live this week; a commercial network in London and a public service network for first responders in Oregon.
London’s financial centre, called The City of London has fired up its mesh network, using Belair gear to bring WiFi anywhere in the Square Mile, reports the [...]
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