The Fountain Square Cultural District Wi-Fi Zone is touted as the largest free public wireless hot zone in Indiana, says the Indy Star. City officials cut the cord this morning. Created as an economic development and tourism tool, the zone will be expanded at an undetermined date to include more of the district and the [...]
Here’s great idea from Design On Deadline. The news window measures 14″ by 11″, which is the approximately screen dimensions of a standard 17″ monitor. A mini Mac drives it. Just about any computer can run a slideshow. With AppleScript, Scott Walker, Assistant managing editor, The Birmingham News trained it to get the daily news. [...]
Wavion, a provider of metro Wi-Fi gear using beamforming, and ADC Telecommunications, a leading provider of high-end networking solutions, announced today that the two companies are cooperating to create an open architecture for municipal Wi-Fi networks. Wavion’s WS410 spatially adaptive outdoor access point will be integrated with ADC’s SG-1 Service Gateway (pdf) to create a [...]
T-Mobile today announced nationwide availability of its HotSpot@Home service. It uses special Wi-Fi equipped handsets to transfer voice calls to designated HotSpots when they are in range (at home). The service costs an extra $19.99 per month. When calls are made over a WiFi network instead of a cellular network, they do not count against [...]
Walt Mossberg thinks the iPhone is a breakthrough: It has the largest and highest-resolution screen of any smart phone we’ve seen, and the most internal memory by far. Yet it is one of the thinnest smart phones available and offers impressive battery life, better than its key competitors claim. It feels solid and comfortable in [...]
Forbes.com interviewed Sprint CTO Barry West who leads Sprint’s “fourth-generation” (4G) broadband department, currently building a $2.5 billion to $3 billion mobile WiMax network. Some shareholders aren’t convinced it’s a solid bet. But revenue from plain-vanilla cellphone calls is eroding, and carriers must bet on wireless data to drive growth. Right now, Sprint is leading [...]
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