London Becomes Leading (Closed) Wireless City

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West Bank city closed off after blasts

West Bank city closed off after blasts 09/01/2004 11:50 AM
Israeli troops closed off a West Bank city and Palestinian militants celebrated after Hamas blew up two buses, seconds apart, in the desert town of Beersheba, killing 16 Israelis and ending a months-long lull in suicide attacks.

London: Next City of the Sky?

London: Next City of the Sky? 06/29/2004 08:41 PM
London architects and developers are pushing to remake the city's profile, much to the chagrin of conservation groups and locals.

"Kelo et al. vs. City of New London et
al"

"Kelo et al. vs. City of New London et
al" 06/24/2005 09:48 PM

Kelo et al. vs. City of New London et al

Kelo et al. vs. City of New London et al 06/24/2005 05:53 PM
give it away .. Kale

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London City Portal

London City Portal 12/29/2004 03:34 AM
Want to check out the nightlife? Want to look for a place to party the night out? Look no further - London1.info brings you the latest information on the entertainment scene of London. [PRWEB Dec 29, 2004]

London council goes wireless

London council goes wireless 09/10/2004 11:19 AM
ZDNet UK Sep 10 2004 2:39PM GMT

State of Wireless London

State of Wireless London 06/13/2004 04:19 AM
Julian Priest has written an excellent report on the state of "Wireless London" -- the wheres and hows of WiFi in the city.

The reason that it has been possible to operate freenetwork access point type nodes without charge is that once the equipment is installed, the incremental cost of allowing others to use it is very low. If you are already paying for network access for yourself, and have installed a wireless network, the additional cost of offering it to the public is negligible. The initial hardware costs are also low, at less than 100 GBP for an access point, and with running costs of 25 GBP per month it makes for a very affordable system.

However, commercial hotspots are faced with significantly more costs over and above the minimal equipment and networking costs, such as a billing infrastructure, help desks, credit checking, location payments, maintenance contracts, share holder dividends and marketing, to name a few. This is inevitably reflected in prices charged for the service.

It remains to be seen how these commercial models burdened with such overheads will compete with the freenetworking ones, and whether the marketing spend, and the strategy of local monopoly will be justified by the returns.

Link (via Oblomovka)

London Wireless Soundscape Project

London Wireless Soundscape Project 11/13/2003 11:19 AM
A new radio show on Resonance104.4FM has started recently. It involves a multi-layered live aural window on London's soundscape using wireless technology. Using internet streaming with laptops audio is sent from different locations around London and broadcast on the radio live. For more information visit LWSP Anyone interested please get in touch.

Openwave to Support Leading i-mode
Wireless Phone

Openwave to Support Leading i-mode
Wireless Phone 08/11/2004 05:03 AM
3G Aug 11 2004 9:37AM GMT

Wireless users chase George Bush across
London

Wireless users chase George Bush across
London 11/18/2003 11:30 AM
Cellphone-toting protesters pissed off about the "security bubble" surrounding George W. Bush during his ultra-high-security UK sojourn are using wireless tech to track his whereabouts -- and make their opinions known. This BBC News article has details, and this moblog captured a snapshot of one of the flyers soliciting participation from UK geeks. (thanks SH)

eXI Wireless introduces self-service
option for its leading management
systems for mobile assets

eXI Wireless introduces self-service
option for its leading management
systems for mobile assets 07/27/2004 06:09 PM
CanadaIT.com Jul 27 2004 9:31PM GMT

Leading European Mobile Communications
Provider O2 Germany Deploys Telcordia
Wireless Software

Leading European Mobile Communications
Provider O2 Germany Deploys Telcordia
Wireless Software 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
PA News via Scotsman Online Feb 9 2004 1:48PM GMT

Industry-leading wireless Bluetooth
headset provider makes products
available in the Middle East

Industry-leading wireless Bluetooth
headset provider makes products
available in the Middle East 04/12/2004 02:18 AM
AME Info Apr 12 2004 5:40AM GMT

Novatel Wireless Announces New Orders
for over $7 Million of Market Leading
Merlin UMTS PC Card

Novatel Wireless Announces New Orders
for over $7 Million of Market Leading
Merlin UMTS PC Card 05/18/2004 07:34 PM
EMAILWIRE.com May 18 2004 11:19PM GMT

Persuading A City To Go Wireless?

Persuading A City To Go Wireless? 09/25/2004 05:57 PM

City to offer wireless Web for all

City to offer wireless Web for all 12/11/2003 01:12 PM
CNN Dec 11 2003 10:54AM ET

California City To Go Wireless

California City To Go Wireless 12/12/2003 07:54 AM

City to become wireless hotspot

City to become wireless hotspot 05/19/2004 06:13 AM
Anyone in the centre of Cardiff will be able to surf the web or pick up e-mails on their laptop under a new broadband scheme.

Wireless To Blanket All Of New York City

Wireless To Blanket All Of New York City 08/22/2004 01:12 PM
New York City is preparing to go fully wireless by January, 2005. The deal is currently being finalized between New York City authorities and six technology companies. To strengthen coverage and signal, 18,000 new lamp post-based antennas will be installed virtually everywhere in the five burroughs that make up New York City.

The plan has already come under fire by local officials concerned what the new antennas will do to people's health, now and in the long run. Local activist John Campos of Queens, NY, says, "Within where I live, over a mile radius, there are over 300 antennas already," said Mr Campos, pointing at a cluster of small masts on a rooftop across the street. "What happens if in 20 years, there's even a minor adverse reaction to human beings?"

Peter Vallone Jr is a Queens council member and chairman of the city's safety committee who also shares Mr. Campos's concerns. "The city was in the papers when I first came out against this, saying there's less radiation than from a microwave (oven) from these antennas, and that may be true," said councilman Vallone. "But nobody runs a microwave 24 hours a day, seven days a week, outside their bedroom door when they are sleeping. That's why it's important we study this," he added.

Commissioner Menchini addresses these concerns by stating, "We've had industry experts come in and advise us on this and everything I've heard, from our health commissioner to the industry experts, says there's no health risk associated with these antennas and these devices."

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Austin Wireless City Announces PC Deal

Austin Wireless City Announces PC Deal 04/09/2004 03:57 PM
The Austin Wireless City Project, which builds hotspots for local venues free of charge, is talking about a deal it has with Image Microsystems: Image Micro takes old computers that would otherwise be headed for landfills and refurbishes them. It has donated 50 of the computers to Austin Wireless City. After those 50 donated computers are used, Image Micro will start loading Less Network's server software onto the computers. Venues can buy the bundled hardware and software, which serves as an AP, for $199. Previously, Austin Wireless City loaded the software but this new development saves time for the project, which already has a waiting list of 90 establishments hoping to get hotspots....

Cisco pushes wireless kit for city
services

Cisco pushes wireless kit for city
services 06/22/2004 03:37 PM
Package of products is designed to help police, other safety officials roam in and out of wireless networks without interruption.

Calif. city making wireless web access

Calif. city making wireless web access 12/11/2003 01:36 AM
Boston Globe Dec 11 2003 1:11AM ET

Calif. City Making Wireless Web Access

Calif. City Making Wireless Web Access 12/11/2003 01:37 AM
AP via The Ledger Dec 11 2003 0:35AM ET

Wireless Network to Turn City into One
Big Hot Spot

Wireless Network to Turn City into One
Big Hot Spot 05/26/2004 09:02 PM
The upscale suburb of Chaska, Minn., will soon become one of the few, but growing, U.S. cities almost entirely within a 'hot spot' of high-speed wireless access to the Internet.

Circuit City disconnects T-Mobile for
Verizon Wireless

Circuit City disconnects T-Mobile for
Verizon Wireless 08/30/2004 07:30 PM
San Jose Mercury News Aug 30 2004 9:52PM GMT

Glentel to Provide Wireless System for
City of Leduc

Glentel to Provide Wireless System for
City of Leduc 04/16/2004 01:05 PM
BC Technology Apr 16 2004 5:40PM GMT

Reach Wireless Offering Free Wi-Fi in
Auckland City

Reach Wireless Offering Free Wi-Fi in
Auckland City 06/02/2004 04:39 PM
Reach Wireless (NZ) is offering free Wi-Fi for the month of June 2004 in the Auckland central city Wi-Fi zone. You just need to buy anything in the city and shops are handing out free Wi-Fi vouchers. Lin k to Locations.

Circuit City drops T-Mobile for Verizon
Wireless

Circuit City drops T-Mobile for Verizon
Wireless 08/30/2004 05:37 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 30 2004 8:19PM GMT

Verizon Wireless In Circuit City With
570 Stores; T-Mobile Out

Verizon Wireless In Circuit City With
570 Stores; T-Mobile Out 08/30/2004 03:26 PM
TechWeb Aug 30 2004 7:53PM GMT

Circuit City drops T-Mobile, expands
Verizon Wireless

Circuit City drops T-Mobile, expands
Verizon Wireless 08/30/2004 05:52 PM
MobileTracker Aug 30 2004 9:21PM GMT

California city establishing wireless
Web access over large area

California city establishing wireless
Web access over large area 12/11/2003 12:32 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Dec 11 2003 0:07AM ET

SoCal city establishing wireless Web
access over large area

SoCal city establishing wireless Web
access over large area 12/10/2003 05:24 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Dec 10 2003 3:34PM ET

Southern California city establishing
wireless Web access over large area

Southern California city establishing
wireless Web access over large area 12/10/2003 05:24 PM
SiliconValley.com Dec 10 2003 4:07PM ET

Taipei to launch city-wide wireless
Internet next year - 11/8/2004

Taipei to launch city-wide wireless
Internet next year - 11/8/2004 02/07/2005 01:59 AM
Metronews Feb 6 2005 4:09PM GMT

Open maps of London event: April 14,
London

Open maps of London event: April 14,
London 04/04/2005 06:24 AM
Cory Doctorow: The Open Knowledge Forums are a series of lectures and panel discussions about the ways that "open knowledge" can benefit the public interest. The next one is a week away, in London, and it's about a plan to produce a set of public domain maps of London (London's maps were produced at tax-payer expense, but can't be freely used; rather, you have to pay the ordinance survey thousands of pounds for the privilege; by contrast, US government maps are free and plentiful, and form the basis for thousands and thousand of competing mapping efforts, from Michelin guides to Google Maps).

There are a number of interesting proposals for this, including deploying an army of GPS-wielding geohackers, and buying up Russian satellite photos of London. Check out this squib from last January's NTK:

London's geowanking fraternity have come up with an intriguing proposition. With a grand's worth of Russian 1-meter resolution satellite pics, they believe they can stitch together an entirely free, redistributable vector database of the capital, freed from the shackles of the Ordnance Survey's restrictive copyrights, and thus open to all manner of GPL-style repurposing.

Here are the details:

* When: Thurs April 14th 2005, 7-9pm

* Where: Stanhope Centre, Marble Arch, London. [WWW]Directions

* Who can attend: public. Registration is optional but useful so please notify us if you can via okforums-info@okfn.org.

* Speakers: Steve Coast of openstreetmap.org; Roger Longhorn (geodata policy expert); Giles Lane of urbantapestries.net; Jo Walsh of mappinghacks.com

Link

Microcell expanding City Fido flat-rate
wireless service to Toronto

Microcell expanding City Fido flat-rate
wireless service to Toronto 05/17/2004 01:17 PM
National Post May 17 2004 4:42PM GMT

CityNet West Introduces High-Speed
Wireless Mesh Technology to the City of
Anaheim

CityNet West Introduces High-Speed
Wireless Mesh Technology to the City of
Anaheim 08/23/2004 02:36 AM
CityNet West, Inc. announced the city's first wireless mesh network, providing their clients with high-speed wireless Internet access. CityNet West uses Wi-Fi technology that allows Internet access from a PC, laptop computer or PDA via HotZones. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004]

GEOCOMtms and Imagina Deliver Next
Generation of Real-Time Fleet Management
- Companies to Provide Wireless Access
to Fleet Routing Applications from
Leading Vendors

GEOCOMtms and Imagina Deliver Next
Generation of Real-Time Fleet Management
- Companies to Provide Wireless Access
to Fleet Routing Applications from
Leading Vendors 03/14/2005 05:57 PM
GEOCOMtms, a global provider of Fleet Optimization and Territory Design solutions, and Imagina, a leading provider of e-business solutions, announced today plans to deliver the next generation of mobile functionality for fleet management applications, including GEOCOMtms’ A.MAZE suite, as well as routing and scheduling systems from other vendors. [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]

NextPhase Wireless Helps City of
Fullerton Provide Downtown Visitors Free
Internet Access

NextPhase Wireless Helps City of
Fullerton Provide Downtown Visitors Free
Internet Access 04/04/2005 11:15 AM
Biz.yahoo.com - Mon Apr 4, 10:44 am GMT
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Ellsworth, Maine, Has Downtown Hotzone

Ellsworth, Maine, Has Downtown Hotzone 06/09/2004 05:07 PM
Downeast Wireless has installed service throughout the Ellsworth downtown: Subscribers to Downeast.Net get 10 free hours per month; those from away spend $10 for 10-hour chunks of time. The coverage extends existing service in and around municipal buildings to the library and nearby businesses. The provider makes space available in its office for its users, too, during its weekday business hours--unique in my experience. The folks who run Downeast.Net have long roots in the area that involve more convention radio broadcasting on the FM dial. Local resident Noel Paul Stookey--he's the Paul in Peter, Paul, and Mary--is one of the firm's owner, along with Don and Jean McKillop....

Hollywood Has Record Summer, Nearly
$4B (AP)

Hollywood Has Record Summer, Nearly
$4B (AP) 09/05/2004 08:32 PM
AP - Summer at movie theaters was a true underdog story for Michael Moore and a gang of dodgeball dimwits, who helped propel Hollywood to another season of record revenue, though the number of moviegoers fell slightly.

German IT agency sets record straight on
IE

German IT agency sets record straight on
IE 09/16/2004 09:20 AM
In response to the growing number of viruses infecting computers, a spokesman for Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has suggested that users consider alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser. But the agency did not recommend that users steer clear of Microsoft products, the spokesman said, refuting a press release issued Tuesday by browser developer Opera Software ASA.

German IT agency sets record straight on
Explorer

German IT agency sets record straight on
Explorer 09/16/2004 04:58 PM
A spokesman for Germany's Federal Office for Information Security has said users should consider alternatives to Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, but it didn't recommend that they steer clear of Microsoft products.

R&J Public Relations Named
Agency-of-Record for Cooke Optics

R&J Public Relations Named
Agency-of-Record for Cooke Optics 04/05/2005 02:31 AM
Cooke Optics, manufacturers of professional camera lenses for the motion picture and professional photography markets, has named R&J Public Relations of Bridgewater, NJ as public relations agency-of-record for its Cooke brand of precision cinemagraphic and photographic lenses. The agency will promote the world-renowned Cooke Optics brand of professional cinemagraphic and photographic lenses [PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]

Epok Selects Nadel Phelan as Public
Relations Agency of Record

Epok Selects Nadel Phelan as Public
Relations Agency of Record 07/13/2004 03:18 AM
Epok, Inc., the leading provider of trusted data and identity exchange solutions, announced today the selection of Nadel Phelan, Inc. as its public relations firm of record. As part of its long-term communication strategy, Epok and Nadel Phelan are responsible for increasing and maintaining a broader market awareness of Epok and the benefits of its identity-based software solutions. [PRWEB Jul 13, 2004]

R&J Public Relations Named International
PR Agency-of-Record for Lino Manfrotto
of Italy

R&J Public Relations Named International
PR Agency-of-Record for Lino Manfrotto
of Italy 04/04/2005 02:38 AM
Lino Manfrotto, parent company of Manfrotto and Gitzo-branded tripods and camera supports, has named R&J Public Relations of Bridgewater, NJ as its international public relations agency-of- record. [PRWEB Apr 4, 2005]

Las Vegas, Nevada-World Series of Poker
Comes to Hollywood - New Hollywood
Motion Picture "Lucky You" Scheduled for
Casting and Filming in Hollywood and Las
Vegas, Soon

Las Vegas, Nevada-World Series of Poker
Comes to Hollywood - New Hollywood
Motion Picture "Lucky You" Scheduled for
Casting and Filming in Hollywood and Las
Vegas, Soon 03/14/2005 05:55 PM
Drew Barrymore and Eric Bana are set to star in "Lucky You" at Warner Bros. Story revolves around struggling singer (Drew Barrymore)who hooks up with professional poker player (Eric Bana)as he collides with his estranged father at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. The casting company for the movie is currently seeking poker players and dealers for the film. Details and application forms are available on the front page of www.PokerConnection.net [PRWEB Feb 15, 2005]

Since When Did Hollywood Get To Control
Our Mobile Phones?

Since When Did Hollywood Get To Control
Our Mobile Phones? 03/28/2005 06:00 AM
Someone over at Verizon Wireless seems very confused about who the company's customers are. Of course, it's unfair to pick on just them, since almost all of the mobile carriers are thinking the same way, but it was the VP at Verizon Wireless who made a series of bizarre, short-sighted and flat-out wrong comments to the Associated Press that should have him looking for a new line of work. The AP piece starts out as a rehash of last week's story saying that the carriers have forced Motorola to shelve the iTunes phone for the time being. Then it shifts the story over to Verizon Wireless' decision to cripple Bluetooth on its phones to stop people from transferring content directly from their phones to PCs (or other phones) and require them to use their cellular connection (which, oh yeah, costs money). Verizon Wireless tries to defend the practice by claiming the entertainment industry made them do it. The quote comes from Jim Straight, vice president for wireless data and Internet services at Verizon Wireless, saying: "When it comes to the cell phone I have to abide by the rules of the content houses." No, actually, he doesn't. The content houses don't own the carriers. There's simply no reason why the makers of a communications platform should be crippling their devices to protect an obsolete broadcast business model. People are not buying mobile phones to get the latest Disney movie or hit song. They're buying them to communicate. If the big content companies don't want to play, it's their loss. People will continue to buy up mobile phones and communicate with them. No one's dying to have access to broadcast content on their phones. The content industry shouldn't be setting the rules here, and there's no reason why the carriers should be deferring to them.

Radionet Brings Carrier Grade Features
to Wireless hotzone Networks

Radionet Brings Carrier Grade Features
to Wireless hotzone Networks 06/05/2005 11:18 PM
Radionet introduces dynamic OSPF routing and fault tolerant network controller to its lineup [PRWEB Jun 1, 2005]

Radionet Delivers Wireless Broadband
Hotzone to University of A Coruña in
Spain

Radionet Delivers Wireless Broadband
Hotzone to University of A Coruña in
Spain 04/06/2005 03:14 AM
The new network allows users anywhere in the campus area to enjoy wireless connections to various network services offered by the University. [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]

Virgin Mobile claims record Q3

Virgin Mobile claims record Q3 11/05/2003 10:56 AM
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Virgin Mobile crows over record quarter

Virgin Mobile crows over record quarter 01/27/2004 12:41 PM
'Glittering' says Branson

The Chinese mobile phone industry's
shipment volume rose 64.2% year on year
to reach approximately 65.2 million
units as the PAS mobile phone shipment
broke a record high

The Chinese mobile phone industry's
shipment volume rose 64.2% year on year
to reach approximately 65.2 million
units as the PAS mobile phone shipment
broke a record high 06/11/2004 03:15 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of The Chinese Mobile Phone Industry, 1Q 2004 and Beyond to their offering [PRWEB Jun 11, 2004]

Singaporean thumbs mobile phone record
(Reuters)

Singaporean thumbs mobile phone record
(Reuters) 06/28/2004 05:02 AM
Reuters - A 23-year-old Singaporean woman appears to have set a world record for sending text messages over a mobile phone.

LG Electronics Reports Record Mobile
Sales in May (Reuters)

LG Electronics Reports Record Mobile
Sales in May (Reuters) 06/21/2004 02:33 AM
Reuters - LG Electronics Inc, a latecomer to the overcrowded global mobile phone market, said on Monday it sold a record number of handsets in May, bolstered by shipments to Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa.

Mobile phone sales hit second-quarter
record: Gartner (AFP)

Mobile phone sales hit second-quarter
record: Gartner (AFP) 09/02/2004 08:08 AM
AFP - Global sales of mobile telephones hit a record 156 million in the second quarter, a study published by the US research group Gartner showed.

Now It's Time To Blame The Record Lables
For Screwing Up Mobile Music

Now It's Time To Blame The Record Lables
For Screwing Up Mobile Music 04/15/2005 12:47 PM
It was just last night that we were saying that the mobile phone operators were going to screw up the mobile music market with their greed... though we also noted that the recording industry was just as bad, and that the two of them together, guaranteed a disaster. As if on cue, News.com comes along to confirm this, with a story about how the record labels are pissed off at Steve Jobs because he won't let them raise prices or force people to buy a bad song to get a good song. Instead, of course, they want to work with the mobile carriers, "The (wireless) carriers' economics are aligned with us much better than Apple is aligned with us." By which the anonymous executive means they're both incredibly greedy and willing to sacrifice long term viability for short term profits. This is like watching a massive train wreck in incredibly slow motion.

Mobile phone sales surge at record pace
in second quarter: Gartner (AFP)

Mobile phone sales surge at record pace
in second quarter: Gartner (AFP) 09/02/2004 02:06 PM
AFP - Global sales of mobile telephones surged a record 35 percent to 156 million units in the second quarter from the same period in 2003, a study published by the US research group Gartner showed.

NTT hits record profits on booming
DoCoMo mobile phone business

NTT hits record profits on booming
DoCoMo mobile phone business 05/14/2004 06:07 AM
Channel NewsAsia May 14 2004 10:06AM GMT

NTT hits record profits on booming
DoCoMo mobile phone business (AFP)

NTT hits record profits on booming
DoCoMo mobile phone business (AFP) 05/14/2004 04:50 AM
AFP - Japanese telecoms giant NTT full year net profit almost tripled to a record 5.6 billion dollars, thanks to growing broadband and mobile phone businesses and continued restructuring.

Regulators probe Japanese record labels
over mobile-phone ringer flap

Regulators probe Japanese record labels
over mobile-phone ringer flap 08/28/2004 01:10 PM
Canadian Press Aug 28 2004 4:19PM GMT

Mobile Phone Industry Rings Up Record
Second Quarter (Investor's Business
Daily)

Mobile Phone Industry Rings Up Record
Second Quarter (Investor's Business
Daily) 09/02/2004 07:35 PM
Investor's Business Daily - A usually quiet period for the cell phone industry was anything but as handset sales hit a second-quarter record. Color-screen and camera phones -- as well as strong sales in developing countries -- drove volume to new highs.

People of Downtown

People of Downtown 03/06/2004 01:55 AM

Sydänstadin kuvia [Photos of downtown] is a nice, small photo exhibit in the Pannuhuone kahvila on Uudenmaankatu [the mincemeat crepes are very good, too]. If you're in the neighbourhood, go have a coffee and a look at the photos. In spite of the photos being digital and showing it in the enlargements, the subjects are people around downtown Helsinki which I found very interesting. The pair of couples in the photo above are especially well done and I think the artist should get photo quality glossy prints and sell these two as a set. If you can't get there, the photographer, Ukko Heikkinen, has a gallerly online of the people of Uudenmankatu which, even with some of the stiffness/awkwardness in a few them, is a terrific collection of the people who live and work here in Helsinki. M-F 9-15 until Friday at Pannuhuone, Uudenmaankatu 19.

Downtown Spokane gets WiFi

Downtown Spokane gets WiFi 06/26/2004 04:29 AM
At a cost of less than US$75,000, the city of Spokane, Washington has installed a WiFi network covering 100 blocks. Will other cities begin creating networks like this?

Eugene, Oregon, Wants Downtown Wi-Fi

Eugene, Oregon, Wants Downtown Wi-Fi 03/27/2005 06:15 PM

The city's daily newspaper urges Wi-Fi rollout: I grew up in Eugene. This is a fairly conservative paper in a pretty liberal town. And there's no sock-puppet talk here. Just a concern about keeping Eugene, a kind of island in the middle of the state with a large liberal-arts university, on track to keep the economy humming. They don't suggest city-wide Wi-Fi, but downtown Wi-Fi for free, which is a good starting place to understand usage.

Eugene's downtown used to be cited by city planners because in the 1960s, they converted from a street-based downtown to a pedestrian-only one. Streets were paved over. Remarkably, shoppers and businesses slowly fled downtown into surrounding areas and the Valley River Center Mall a few miles away on the other side of the Willamette River. A few years ago, the pedestrian mall was ripped out and life has slowly returned to downtown.

Wireless Available Downtown Victoria

Wireless Available Downtown Victoria 11/10/2003 11:11 PM
Being I have benifited numerous times from others wireless I am now settled and have my own wireless available, If your in the blenz coffee shop on the corner of Johnson and Douglas, you will be able to accees my WAP Thanks everyone for lettin me scam off you now my turn to return the favour

Baton Rouge Gets Free Wi-Fi Downtown

Baton Rouge Gets Free Wi-Fi Downtown 02/16/2004 03:56 PM
Verge Wireless built a network covering downtown Baton Rouge: Twelve access points will cover the area and the project should cost around $140,000. The network is free for Internet access but users that want secure connections will pay for the access. It seems that so far city leaders feel that more usage will come if they can raise awareness that the network exists....

Downtown Washington, DC and the new WWII
Memorial

Downtown Washington, DC and the new WWII
Memorial 06/06/2004 11:12 AM

Took the airplane down to my hometown of Washington, DC for a bit of exercise this weekend.  The city was built to awe the citizens with an inhuman scale.  Plazas are vast and the Mall itself is a forbidding barrier if you're trying to walk from place to place on a hot or cold day (the architects who wrote A Pattern Language concluded that no public square would be effective unless it was small enough that people could recognize each other from opposite ends).  The government buildings are huge and discourage casual entry by being set back from the street and not having any retail shops on the ground floor as a commercial office building might.

The D.C. of my childhood is vastly different from the D.C. of today.  Those imposing buildings that symbolize the government's power are now wrapped in concrete highway barriers that broadcast the government's fear of a lone terrorist driving a truck filled with a fertilizer bomb.  Around the Federal Reserve building, for example, the barriers cover part of the sidewalk so as a pedestrian you're separated from the street by a wall of concrete.  The effect is certainly ugly and it will be interesting to see what happens if a beautiful Old World city such as Paris needs to be secured against lone terrorists in trucks.  But in a way the cowering of the government marks the triumph of the individual in American society.  "God created men; Colonel Colt made them equal" wasn't quite right after all.  It was the terrorists who blew up the Marine compound in Beirut and those who blew up the World Trade garage in 1993 who actually made individual men the equals of government.

There is one new building in Washington, D.C. that harks back to an era when governments were all-powerful and individual men and women subordinate:  the World War II Memorial.  This is at the east end of the Reflecting Pool and adjacent to the Washington Monument (now wrapped in an ugly high security fence).  The new monument looks as though it was built by Soviet architects and indeed looks a lot like the WWII memorial in East Berlin.  The thing is huge and it makes one pause and reflect... "We'd better not start any more wars or we're going to run out of space on the Mall."

[My visit to the Memorial coincided with protests in Europe against American power in the form of George W. Bush, visiting to celebrate the American victory over the Germans in Italy.  Picking up on the theme of an earlier entry, I suppose it would not have been very politic of him to respond by saying "We're sincerely sorry for being so bellicose and we're going to show it by giving Italy back to the Germans..."]

Overall I still love Washington, D.C.  Where else can you drive on a riverside parkway, 100-percent paid for with Federal tax dollars, and pass adjacent signs reading "The George Bush Center for Intelligence" and "Turkey Run"?

The Cessna flying over downtown
Washington, DC

The Cessna flying over downtown
Washington, DC 06/05/2005 11:56 PM

A lot of folks up here have asked about the two-seat Cessna that flew over downtown Washington, DC last week, spreading panic among the bureaucrats.  How could this have happened, they wonder, imagining that the average small plane has at least the computing and display power of a Honda Accord with the navi system option.In reality an old plane like the Cessna 150 is worth less than $20,000.  Thanks to the miracle of FAA bureaucracy, a moving-map GPS unit that can be legally installed in the dashboard costs around $10,000 plus another $500/year to keep the database of airports and navigation aids current (this is government info so it would be possible for the FAA to make this available on the Web in a machine-readable form and encourage owner's of cheap planes to keep it current).  Consequently the Cessna 150 that these guys were flying didn't have one.  It is possible to get handheld GPS units for $500-1000 but they rely on AA batteries and never seem to have juice left when you need them.  Without a GPS or some earlier form of electronic navigation it is reasonably easy to get lost.  Look to the left:  sprawl, Walmarts, McMansions, SUVs.  Look to the right:  sprawl, Walmarts, McMansions, SUVs.  Look straight ahead:  sprawl, Walmarts, McMansions, SUVs.  Making matters worse the DC area is fairly flat with no distinctive terrain and the weather tends to be hazy so if you're flying low you usually can't see more than five strip malls ahead.

My favorite part of these flight restriction violation incidents is the actual bust.  When the two-seat 40-year-old airplane is finally forced to land it is surrounded by 20-30 law enforcement officials, each carrying a semi- or fully automatic pistol or rifle.  By this time the airplane and its pilot are 30 or 40 miles from the restricted area and they're at a big airport with miles of grass and fence all around.  There would be no way for the pilot to escape.  Yet despite the fact that in no case has one of these pilots ever been carrying any kind of weapon the 20-30 cops have their guns drawn and pointed at the poor schlub standing next to his 1000-lb. airplane.  The pilot is pushed down onto the pavement and handcuffed (see the photos from the recent incident at Frederick; another good one was a pipeline patrol pilot in Pennsylvania during the last presidential election who didn't find out about a last-minute visit by George W.).  To me it always made the government look weak and paranoid.  If they are this afraid of a confused unarmed guy in a 1962 Cessna 150 (who in all of the cases so far had kept his transponder turned on for the entire flight to facilitate FAA tracking) how can they possibly handle our actual enemies?

[The Cessna 150 seems to be the preferred choice for presidential intimidation.  The 1994 suicide crash of a light plane into the White House was, as one would hope conspiracy theorists would soon note, a Cessna 150 (see http://www-tech .mit.edu/V114/N40/crash.40w.html for more on this incident).]

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