WiFi NEWS

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Whether fiber, coax, or phone lines are involved, the New York Times reports on how variables service can be at higher data rates. Wireless, of course, has more difficulties because wireline service tends to be consistent, with congestion being a secondary problem after basic line conditions. If the line is good, it’s typically good for as long as the wire or glass is intact. The route out to the Internet at the ISP then becomes the next important
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The company lists a wide array of adapters including Dell Wireless 1350, 1370, 1390, 1450, and 1500, and the TrueMobile 1300 and 1400 series of mini-PCI and PC Cards. That’s one huge download to replace what’s apparently not a ton of code. But it must include all the associated software that runs the system, too, as well as every patch for every device. The flaw in Broadcom’s drivers can allow a proximate user to crash or own a
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My excellent colleague David Haskin writes about EarthLink’s necessary move from dial-up into wireless networks. EarthLink thinks that it will bring competition into markets that will benefit consumers by cutting all costs while increasing access. EarthLink’s point person says that telcos are nervous because of other offerings, such as local-network VoIP, would cut into their cash cows. EarthLink told Haskin that it costs cell operators
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The Age says that CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) prevailed in a suit over patent 5,487,069 filed Nov. 23, 1993, and awarded Jan. 23, 1996, that covers fundamental aspects of WLAN communications. The patent describes multipath transmission of data at frequencies higher than 10 GHz, but the agency says a court in the eastern district of Texas found for CSIRO. They were asking for royalties from Buffalo; the case
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The New York Times reports that Hughes, Starband, and WildBlue have over 390,000 consumers subscribing between them by year’s end (240K, 30K, 150K, respectively); WildBlue is adding 15,000 home users and HughesNet 8,000 each month. Installation costs can run $500 with monthly service $50 to $130 per month. The installation costs can be reduced through long-term commitments. Satellite broadband reaches 463,000 households and businesses in all, but will double by 2010.

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These portable, Wi-Fi-enabled music players outdo Zune by using their built-in wireless adapters to, you know, synchronize with a computer and connect over the Internet. In fact, their peer-to-peer mode doesn’t require proximity; I can exchange music with another MusicGremlin user elsewhere on the Internet as long as I have a network feed where I am. That’s a bit more—social, innit?

The company announced Monday that they’d
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Using resonance, or the tendency of things in nature to vibrate cyclically at certain frequencies—whether metal buzzing from low bass notes or high-frequency EF causing magnetic fields to rotate—the scientists believes its feasible to use a kind of high-powered induction field to allow a power source to charge a battery. Unlike induction, which requires close proximity, the prof thinks that EF loops, producing resonance harmless to other
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LodgeNet has primarily offered in-room entertainment, with broadband being a much smaller component. StayOnline, the other way. The acquisition adds 140,000 rooms with broadband service (mostly wired) to LodgeNet’s portfolio, for a total of 175,000 rooms. LodgeNet works with a variety of chains, including Marriott, Hilton, Starwood, Omni, Intercontinental, and Historic Hotels of America, the release says.

by the Month of Kernel Bugs (MokB) project allows a physically proximate user to hijack a Windows and some Linux and Unix machines using certain Broadcom Wi-Fi drivers. Via email, Broadcom told me that they had not received information from Ellch prior to his Blue Hat demonstration last month. Rather, the company took seriously this August’s demonstration by Ellch and colleague David Maynor of a fuzzing technique for throwing a lot of bad data
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