The New York Times is running a story about how hope is fading for the implementation of municipal wireless access in cities across the U.S. Major cities and small towns alike are finding that ISPs are withdrawing from such plans due to the low profitability of ventures that are similar to Philadelphia’s incomplete network.
From the [...]
An unnamed U.S. wireless carrier maintains an unfiltered, unmonitored DS-3 line from its internal network to a facility in Quantico, Virginia, according to Babak Pasdar, a computer security consultant who did work for the company in 2003. Customer voice calls, billing records, location information and data traffic are all allegedly exposed. A similar claim was [...]
In the world of wireless networking, there are big secrets and little secrets. For a great rundown on the obvious and hidden implications of the AT&T/Starbucks WiFi deal, you should check out Glenn Fleishman’s piece at TidBITS. Glenn sussed out the various flavors of AT&T’s offering, mused about the implications of WiFi ubiquity for the [...]
We already have Bluetooth that operates separately from WiFi. Both wireless functions are common on today’s laptops but they run off separate chips and serve separate tasks. Bluetooth is relatively low bandwidth and relatively short distance but it is designed to be easy to use since devices are automatically discovered and then made available [...]
With 802.11n poised to become the mainstream WiFi standard, chips suppliers are racing to lower their costs and offer affordable single-chip solutions at 90nm and below in order to get a head-start in the market, according to industry sources. In 2007, the industry still had doubts about the acceptance of 802.11n, but now chip suppliers [...]
StreamMyGame.com announced today the release of its free Linux Player, an application that enables you to play any PC game via a PlayStation 3 running Linux.
The free StreamMyGame Server enables PC games to be played remotely by converting the game’s video and audio into a Game Stream and sending it over a home network to [...]
Sirius Satellite Radio announced yesterday that it ended 2007 with 8,321,785 subscribers, up from the company’s 2006 ending subscriber base of 6,024,555. During 2007, SIRIUS added approximately 2.3 million net subscriber additions.
“Sirius’ subscriber base increased 38% in 2007, and our gross subscriber additions in 2007 were the highest in the history of satellite radio,” said [...]
Alltel Corp. is unveiling a new feature that uses voice-recognition software to allow wireless phone customers to read their voicemail messages as text messages. Monthly fees for the Voice2TXT service start at $4.99, and users will still have the option to listen to the messages. “It’ll appeal to a broad customer base … people who [...]
“What are ad-hoc wireless networks?”, you may ask. Well, according to Merriam-Webster Online, ad-hoc is defined as “for the particular end or case at hand without consideration of wider application”. Now that may not make much sense other than to say that “I can use this, and nobody is the wiser”, but let’s apply that [...]
Australia’s University of Technology in Queensland has created a groundbreaking new system that can detect invisible intruders on wireless LANs. Wireless networks have been almost impossible to thoroughly secure as they possess no clearly defined boundaries, instead they are defined by the quality and strength of the receiving antenna. QUT Information Security Institute researcher Dr [...]
Apple is asking for 30% of subscriber revenue and can’t provide enough iPhones for a Christmas 2007 launch in Spain, according to Spanish technology company SevenClick which reports that it got the information from a senior manager at Telefonica. It also claims the May 2008 launch will see a 3G version of Apple’s super-slate. The company’s technology [...]
Thanks to CBS, you can access free wireless Internet in midtown Manhattan. To be able to use it, you have to go through a CBS landing page and that is why they are trying this out. If it’s a success, NYC will see a dramatic increase in free WiFi in the near future.
The United Nations telecommunications agency in Geneva gave the upstart technology called WiMax a vote of approval, providing a sizable victory for Intel and something of a defeat for competing technologies from Qualcomm and Ericsson. The International Telecommunication Union’s radio assembly agreed late Thursday to include WiMax, a wireless technology that allows Internet and other [...]
The industry group behind UWB (ultrawideband) high-speed wireless has certified the first UWB chipsets, a move that helps usher in technologies including wireless USB and the next generation of Bluetooth. UWB is the radio technology underlying those systems. It is designed to deliver 480Mbps throughput over a range of a few meters, making data transfers [...]
The Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, employs 800 full time research scientists to develop innovations in technology and research as well as defense and security. FOI has developed an underwater wireless technology that has been tested for accurately predicting weather conditions, sea pollution and earthquakes. The newly developed underwater wireless technology is a vast improvement [...]
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