NBC Universal plans to use its coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games to launch a new system for measuring viewership across an array of different media, including video-on-demand, cellphones and the Web, as well as traditional television, reports the Wall Street Journal.
NBC hopes the new system — which will be offered to advertisers at the [...]
Minutes ago I was looking at the list of networks I could pickup in my
home. MetroFi-Free and MetroFi-Premium were listed and then both
suddenly disappeared. They have not reappeared in the last 5 minutes,
which I take as a sign that the power has been pulled.
Can anyone confirm that they see the same thing?
Michael Weinberg
President
Personal Telco Project, [...]
Portland’s Westside Express Service (WES) is the first commuter rail line in Oregon and among only a handful of suburb-to-suburb commuter lines in the country. It will be offering free Wi-Fi when it starts operations this fall.
The $117.3 million commuter rail system will begin running in October or November, connecting the Beaverton [...]
The Orchestra Master: We’re unemployed, then.
The Presenter: Unemployed…until the next movie. I’ve already got an idea.
— Allegro Non Troppo (Not So Fast!)
EarthLink spent $16 million to build a wireless Internet “cloud” over Philadelphia, but couldn’t generate a profit with only 6,000 subscribers.
Network Acquisition Company announced last week their intentions to form a for-profit [...]
American Airlines and technology provider Aircell staged a dress rehearsal of their WiFi service in planes on a round-trip flight between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport today. BoingBoing and WiFiNetNews helped promote it.
Broader customer trials on flights between New York and San Francisco and between New York and [...]
Aruba Networks and Meru Networks have been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research, essentially tied for first place as the leading 802.11n Wi-Fi equipment vendors.
Motorola claimed the second spot in the company’s new evaluation of worldwide vendors.
The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed by ABI to provide [...]
Trend Micro, an Internet content security company, reported today that residents of the Atlanta metropolitan region are not using Wi-Fi hotspots, even though the city is the fourth highest metropolitan area for Wi-Fi availability and the highest rated “wired” city in the nation.
The study, which surveyed over 500 Atlanta residents on their Internet usage habits [...]
Don Park, co-founder of Dailywireless and past president of Personal Telco Project in Portland, says CherryPal is announcing a two watt nano computer.
This is an early announcement but if its affordable, a 2 watt debian box with Wi-Fi could be the PTP deployment platform of choice once we run out of Netgear WGTs.
CherryPal uses Freescale’s [...]
Strix Systems today announced that its Personal Mobile Command (PMC) systems are being deployed for emergency response vehicles and tactical mobile communications at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Silicon-Star Science & Technology Development and Beijing Aerospace partnered in the design and integration of the PMC which delivers instantaneous triangulation between public safety vehicles and security personnel [...]
Bren: What is your job title exactly?
Ultrasound Technician: I’m an ultrasound technician, ma’am.
Bren: Well, I’m a nail technician and I think we both ought to just stick to what we know.
Ultrasound Technician: Excuse me?
Bren: Oh, you think you’re so special because you get to play Picture Pages up there? Well, my five year old daughter [...]
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