04.08.2006 - Editorial So, what do you know
Wireless Internet and the City of San francisco, and the challenges facing installation. More importantly, the City wishes to make wifi available to low income and underpriviliged neighborhoods, and the difficulties the very prople they want to get cces to, e=will have taking advantage of that access....
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August 6, 2006 - Boston - Pamela Reeve to Lead Non-Profit Study
Boston to undertake non-profit operating cith wide wireless network and wifi hotspot network....
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August 18, 2006 - Public Apathetic About Mobile WiFi
At least in the UK. A web hosting firm called Hostway conducted a survey of 1500 of it's consumers... and the results were not good. The firm reported that over 33% of respondents were frustrated by slow loading and unavailable web pages. Another 25% said they did not use mobile and PDA devices because of difficulty navigating web pages. Unfortunately, no statistics were provided regarding the use of laptops/notebooks. But from the sound of it, it's too slow....
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05.20.06 North African regional wireless training workshop
Does this mean Wi MAX® is coming to Africa? That is, after all, one of the major targets for the 802.16™ technology; last mile applications, and third world countries, as discussed in an earlier article. The workshop will take place in Morocco July 12-16. Here are a few reprinted criteria....
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04.29.06 - Wireless Regulations
The City of White Plains, Westchester County in upstate New York, this past week passed legislation requiring businesses to take necessary precautions to protect wireless networks for accidental or deliberate abuse, according to an article from Internet News. In short, the new law mandates business owners processing customer data over a wireless local area network (WLAN) to employ firewalls, to changing SSID's. While less restrictive on publis hotspots, cafe and hotel business owners, and other...
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04.14.2006 - 802.11n(TM)... Ever changing technology?
Well, yes, that's accurate. 802.11n has been kicking around for some time now, and as of this past February 6th, a basic agreement for the 802.11n standard has been accepted "as a baseline." A further draft is expected later this year, with publication planned for next year. ...
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June 30, 2006 New Laptop Security Flaw
Another security flaw has reared its ugly head. As reported in FierceWiFi, "clever security researchers said they have found a way to seize control of a laptop computer by manipulating buggy code in the system's wireless device driver." The researchers, David Maynor and Jon Ellch, discovered that by throwing a lot of wireless packet information, or "fuzzed" the wireless cards, control of a laptop computer could be gained....
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June 27, 2006 Chicago WiFi Race
Chicago plans to be the "first major city to move ahead of the digital divide", according to Mayor Richard Daley in an article from Technology News. We must applaud Mayor Daley's requisite that the winning bidder for the WiFi program will supply affordable computers and computer training programs. ...
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June 27, 2006 WiFi Hotspot Race
Atlanta is on a tear. Atlanta FreeNet currently has 50 wifi hotspot locations providing free wifi access at businesses in the Greater Atlanta area. The goal according to Matt Smith, the founder, "is to add 100 hotspots" in as many days...
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June 28, 2006 WiMAX® Distance Record
A new distance record was set in trails conducted by WiMAX Telecom Group, which is currently offering WiMAX in Austria, Switzerland and Slovakia, with plans to offer service to Croatia at the end of 2006. At 40 kilometers, or 24.85 miles, the test was conducted at the World Sailing Championship in Great Britain, on The Isle of Wight...
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June 28, 2006 Mobile Web
The W3C, the Worldwide Web Consortium, including players like Google, Microsoft and Nokia, released yesterday Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, which will attempt to apply standardization to how content is delivered to the plethora of mobile devices that access the Web....
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June 30, 2006 WiMAX™ for the Middle East
Computer chip giant Intel® announced the signing of two WiMAX™ financial agreements through the company investment division. The "first is for an investment in Orascom Telecom WiMAX Limited, a joint venture with Orascom Telecom of Egypt, and the second is for an investment in Worldmax, a joint venture with Enertel Holding of the Netherlands," stated the release....
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June 30, 2006 Anaheim Goes Wireless
The City of Anaheim, CA became one of the first and largest municipalities in the race for Muni WiFi. A little over 10% of the city now has wireless Internet available, or 6 of the 50 square miles....
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05.17.06 And Spam...?
So, you really want to get those spammers, eh? That resource will help you track and report the spammers. Personally, I'd love to, but who has the time? Best to keep it simple... So, I use MailWasher which not only helps rid you of spam, but is also a huge aid in combating viruses. You configure the program to check your email right on your ISP, and then preview before downloading. There is a paid version with enhanced tools for fighting spam....
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05.10.06 Anti Spy ware Tips
Well,I've been meaning to get back to this for days. As reviewed in the previous article, I, for one, and I'm not alone in that belief, find that no one particular anti virus program or anti spy ware program is the be all and end all of anti anything. I have used Ad Aware for several years and find it to be quite good. There is a free version for personal use with some limitations, but ought to be quite good for the average user. However, I also use Spy Sweeper, both on a twice per week basis....
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05.24.06 Happy Birthday... To Us!!
Yes, it was a year ago today that we registered the domain name wifiglobal.biz. It was a heck of a challenge, because finding something other than antslikewifitoo.com was impossible. Of course, I've never been one to come up with those catchy handles people use on Yahoo and MSN chats... So, I guess that made it tougher....
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