Archive for May, 2006
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006If you’re heading to New York this summer, make sure and take the laptop with the wireless adapter. The city parks department is making it possible to surf and check email from their public parks, so get ready …
Technology News: Wireless : WiFi Coming to New York’s Central Park
Get out your Frisbee and your laptop [...]
BT to create wireless cities
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006Muni WiFi is coming to Britian. British Telecom is rolling it out in several cities over the next year beginning with the bigger cities. There is not a lot of details at this point, but more will come as they begin the process.
BT to create wireless cities | CNET News.com
BT has begun rolling out wireless [...]
Google finds that WiFi isn’t as easy as …
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006THIS JUST IN … WIFI ISN’T AS EASY AS FIRST THOUGHT. A short article at newswireless about some problems Google is having with their WiFi plans. It seems that their estimated number of access points was greatly under the number it will take. No word yet on the revised number or the additional cost involved.
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Skype Goes for Broke
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006The predictions have been that telephone service would be free, but I never imagined it would be this soon. Skype (owned by eBay) has opened up the service, Skype Out, to the United States and Canada for free. All you have to do is download the free client and set it up, then begin calling [...]
Houston Mayor’s Telephone Conference for Bloggers
Monday, May 15th, 2006At 6:30 PM on Monday, May 15, 2006, Houston Mayor Bill White held a telephone conference with area bloggers. Also in attendance were Richard Lewis, CIO of Houston, Mustafa Temeez, and moderator Michael Garfield. About a dozen bloggers called into a number provided for the conference, and were allowed to ask questions of the participants. [...]
Houston Mayor Holds Blogger Phone Conference on WiFi
Monday, May 15th, 2006This evening, Houston’s Mayor, Bill White and the city’s CIO, Richard Lewis, held a telephone conference for Houston bloggers to discuss the Muni WiFi project they are proposing. The RFPs are due tomorrow and I am very interested in seeing the response they get.
Lewis said that sixty-five companies attended the pre-bid meeting and they are [...]
High-Def Could Choke Internet, ISPs Fear
Monday, May 15th, 2006This is something we are seeing at work first-hand. As more online services like full-fledged video become available, bandwidth usages will increase proportionally. The other night, the Redhead and I watched an episode of Lost we had missed. We headed over to ABCs online site and easily, and freely (with commercials) caught up with what [...]
Muni Wi-Fi KO’d by wrong kind of hills, trees, rain
Monday, May 15th, 2006I’m not sure how I missed this article in The Register, but it points out several issues that have not been highly publicized before. The first is the problem with signal penetration, and the second is nature.
Our experience is similar. In trying to install a WiFi network in a marina, the signals worked great [...]
Services Like Frappr
Sunday, May 14th, 2006Services like Frappr are what give technology and online companies a black eye. They become spammers, but claim you signed up to allow it. Let me give you my story in Frappr.
I have ignored requests from people to get on their Frappr map before because it required you to register with Frappr to begin with. [...]
Philly City Council OKs WiFi Plan
Saturday, May 13th, 2006Game on!
Light Reading - Broadband - Philly City Council OKs WiFi Plan - Telecom News Analysis
In a 15-0 vote, the Philadelphia City Council on Thursday approved a long-awaited plan for a municipal WiFi network that will span 135 square miles.
Service provider EarthLink Inc. is in charge of the deployment, using wireless mesh and backhaul equipment [...]