Taproot Systems has launched WalkingHotSpot that transforms a smartphone with built-in WiFi to a mobile hotspot (FAQ). It can support up to five devices.
According to Sean O’Leary, Taproot’s vice president of business development and marketing, the company opted to go direct to consumer after determining it would take too long to get its product included [...]
The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones asks What’s the best way of using new media tools to cover a news event?
I decided to try out various options at Apple’s music event on Tuesday evening - not a major story, so a good venue for a bit of experimentation.
I took a laptop with a 3g dongle for instant [...]
Was EarthLink’s failed citywide Wi-Fi a blessing in disguise, asks C/Net’s Marguerite Reardon.
“The new network owners are supposed to have a much more sustainable business model,” said Karen Perry, director of the Connected Communities team for the Knight Center of Digital Excellence. “The fact that they are also focused on wired and wireless access will [...]
Life360, a Berkeley-based mobile app startup, was just named one of the top ten $275K winners of Google’s Android Developer Challenge.
Life360’s application automatically notifies families about emergency events and can send messages to selected family members, even if most infrastructure has failed (pdf). Life360 alerts are customized to each user; as an example, [...]
Abilene Christian University, in Albilene, Texas, will hand out Apple’s iPhone 3G to two-thirds of this year’s entering class of 950 freshmen.
Students will be expected to use the devices to brainstorm ideas and get virtual handouts and podcasts during class while instructors will use them for such tasks as monitoring attendance.
“This is a [...]
The City of Milpitas, California is developing a contract to let Silicon Valley Unwired, a non-profit organization that includes the city of Milpitas, Google, and I-Net Solutions, to provide free municipal Wi-Fi service.
“There would be no fee for the public to use the network,” Bill Marion, Milpitas’ Information Services director, told the council [...]
Meraki, a spin-off of the MIT RoofNet project, made a name for itself with simple, $50 (indoor) and $100 (outdoor) mesh nodes that self-configure, sharing broadband among neighbors. The inexpensive nodes utilized Meraki’s Hosted Services called the Dashboard, for centralized management. But the inexpensive $50 nodes later required ads and had some features removed.
Now [...]
M2Z Networks announced this week that it submitted evidence to the FCC confirming that there is no need for the FCC to conduct the fifth interference test before licensing the AWS-3 spectrum to be used for a free nationwide broadband service.
M2Z hopes to offer 384kbps free (and content filtered) to 95% of the country [...]
When municipal wireless provider MetroFi announced plans to shut off the Portland WiFi network in June, it promised to take down all the antennas by the end of July. They’re still up, though, and the city is starting to worry that Portland taxpayers may have to pick up the tab to dismantle them, says Mike [...]
Motorola’s technologies performed well in FCC “white space” testing, reports E-Week. Google, Microsoft, Motorola and other IT companies hope to exploit the digital television transition by delivering wireless broadband in the empty spectrum between digital television channels.
Motorola said Aug. 7 its geolocation device operated successfully in the Federal Communications Commission’s ongoing white spaces field [...]
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