Archive for February, 2007

Billboards: Would-be Wi-Fi Competitors?

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Since CBS isn’t in the IT industry, it’s difficult to imagine them implementing a plan of this proportion, but it adds to the conversation. There are many companies trying to determine how to implement a profitable program of wireless Internet.
Again, the problem with using 802.11x for this are many.

limited distance
fragile signals
interference
lack of speed
public [...]

TMC Net Looks at Municipal WiFi Projects in the U.S.

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

TMC Net has published a three-part series on municipal WiFi projects that are a must read for anyone interested in the developments in this arena. They interviewed several experts and looked at every angle affected by the sudden rush to create these projects.
With the recent Houston, Texas project award to Earthlink (still has to have [...]

Pro Baseball Coming to League City, Texas

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Great News! A press conference is called for noon, February 27th, 2007 for a special announcement about the Continental Baseball League and the City of League City.
This project was first announced last summer with League City being a finalist for a team. The original information I remember has 6-8 teams and an 80 game [...]

10 Reasons to Like Zoho Writer (and more)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Are you looking for a FREE, ROBUST, DYNAMIC, and JUICY web-based word processor? You’re in luck with today’s recommendation. Zoho writer is a great product and the highest praise I can say is, "It doesn’t feel like a web-based program. It is much better than everything else I have tried." I like this product and [...]

Multiple Computers, 1 Keyboard/Mouse, No KVM

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Sometimes you just have to get your geek on and try something totally out there. How about running multiple computers, four monitors, one keyboard and one mouse, all at the same time.
Impossible, you say! Tim to the rescue with a how-to on a software program and a little time. This will gain you major [...]

WiFi network could blanket Houston in 2 years

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

This report in the Houston Chronicle today begins to divulge a few details about the Mayor’s proposal for covering the 600 square mile, Houston area with cheap WiFi. Mayor White is scheduled for a news conference today at 4:00 PM to announce the winner in the race to implement this project and begin the journey [...]

More GT500 Video Goodness

Monday, February 12th, 2007

What more can I say.

links for 2007-02-11

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

San Francisco May Take FTTH With Its WiFi
More news from the SF front. Only 1 billion dollars for the city to install fiber. no brainer …
(tags: muni_wifi internet)

Rollin’ on the River
Portland’s test network is passing the test. now it’s to stage two.
(tags: muni_wifi)

X-Hawk flying car could be here by 2010

Friday, February 2nd, 2007