Biodiversity Hotspots

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Biodiversity Informatics

Biodiversity Informatics 06/22/2005 02:48 AM
Biodiversity Informatics - Peer Reviewed Open Access Journal
http://jbi.nhm.ku.edu/index.php

Biodiversity Informatics is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that covers the emerging field of biodiversity informatics. BI welcomes papers regarding aspects of the creation, management, analysis, interpretation, and understanding of information regarding biodiversity. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Co-extinction Analysis Darkens
Biodiversity Picture

Co-extinction Analysis Darkens
Biodiversity Picture 09/09/2004 11:50 PM

Acronyms Related to Biological
Informatics and Biodiversity

Acronyms Related to Biological
Informatics and Biodiversity 02/11/2004 07:52 AM
Acronyms Related to Biological Informatics and Biodiversity
http://www.iabin-us.org/glossary_acronyms/gloss_acronym_index.html

A site that features sources for acronyms related to biological informatics and biodiversity. Great resource and I have added it to my Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Biological Informatics.

Integrating Biodiversity and Tourism:
The Role of the Internet - Ron Mader

Integrating Biodiversity and Tourism:
The Role of the Internet - Ron Mader 02/15/2004 01:07 PM
Planeta Feb 15 2004 4:12PM GMT

Impressions of Costa Rica after a
month's visit: Biodiversity

Impressions of Costa Rica after a
month's visit: Biodiversity 10/29/2003 01:16 AM
In Costa Rica biodiversity isn't a just a slogan or a buzzword, it is an observable fact. The country is teeming with life. We saw amazing numbers of birds, reptiles, insects and plants. Even when we weren't looking for them, the number and kinds of birds and insects that we saw just walking around rural towns was astonishing, and the variety we saw when we were hiking in the national parks was awe-inspiring. For example, on one short afternoon hike on Rincón de la Vieja I saw 2 species of toucans, 2 species of parrots, a laughing falcon, a cuckoo, a woodpecker, several kinds of finches, flycatchers, magpies and jays. That was just some of the birds. I also saw 2 bats, an agouti, a snake, several kinds of frogs and toads, several kinds of lizards, several kinds of ants including leaf cutter ants and army ants, and thousands of butterflies. I'm not much on plants, so I can't name many of the different trees I saw, but in the course of one afternoon I passed through at least 5 kinds of habitat: cloud forest, tropical rainforest, dry tropical forest, open savannah and what looked like California live oak highlands. I have done a lot of hiking in the United States, and I have never seen anything like it. As the guidebooks point out, there are more species of birds in Costa Rica (650) than in all of the United States and Canada combined. All of this in a country the size of West Virginia. If you like hiking and wildlife viewing, especially bird-watching, it is hard to imagine a better place. And if you are a fan of the writings of Charles Darwin, David Quammen and Edwin O. Wilson, as I am, it is a great place to see, in the flesh as it were, exactly what they were writing about....

Land clearing fails to stunt Wheatbelt's
biodiversity

Land clearing fails to stunt Wheatbelt's
biodiversity 04/12/2005 11:50 PM
OptusNet Apr 13 2005 3:55AM GMT

Hotspots

Hotspots 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
After a bit of researching I have come across a few sites that may be of help to all of us looking for some hotspots.

Ben Laurie has created a site that records the location of free-access hotspots across the UK. They are sorted in a searchable database of maps. Type in your postcode to allocate places where you can connect. Link it up at Consume.

Another organization that maps Wi-Fi hotspots is Arwain. They have "uncovered" most of Cardiff and have plans to bring free, fast wireless access to some parts in Wales. Check them out at Arwain.

And lastly for all the Torontonians out there I have a site that you might find useful. This site has a map of downtown Toronto and lists and the WEP enabled and disabled areas. For a view of the map check out Naked Wireless.

I hope these sites were of some help to you. Drop me a line to let me know.

WiFi hotspots not all that hot

WiFi hotspots not all that hot 05/28/2004 06:14 AM
San Jose Mercury News May 28 2004 10:32AM GMT

Portable Hotspots

Portable Hotspots 02/05/2005 09:27 PM
Journal tests NetGear, D-Link portable gateways: This category is starting to expand as manufacturers realize that once someone tastes Wi-Fi, they don't want to back to no-Fi. Jesse Drucker, subbing for Walt Mossberg, writes in The Wall Street Journal about testing two different gateways on the road and at home. As is typical, the basic functions are fine and security settings are a bear....

18,000 wifi hotspots in NYC

18,000 wifi hotspots in NYC 07/29/2004 08:45 PM
sure, as soon as i leave, the whole island becomes network nirvana

New Twist on Municipal Hotspots

New Twist on Municipal Hotspots 06/28/2004 02:42 PM
Manchester, New Hampshire, plans to announce in mid-July that a hotspot will be available downtown for anyone to use free for one hour: It appears that the city decided it wanted a network and put out a request for proposal. Signull Technologies offered to fund and build the network and then offer one free hour per day per user. An hour a day might be useful for folks who may want to check email during their lunch break or for visitors to town. The agreement sounds like a good way for Signull to pull in potential customers and for the city to offer a useful service for visitors and residents....

Wi-Fi hotspots simply too expensive

Wi-Fi hotspots simply too expensive 06/02/2004 07:18 AM
No return on investment, German study shows

WiFi Spy alerts you to Wi-Fi hotspots

WiFi Spy alerts you to Wi-Fi hotspots 07/16/2004 06:44 AM
Marware has released its WiFi Spy, a small device that you can hook onto a keychain and carry around for those times when you need to find an 802.11b/g wireless network, such as in an airport or a coffee shop. When you press its button, the device scans for a signal and shows its strength on a four-bar display if it picks one up. Holding the button and walking around will help you find the strongest possible signal from the nearby hotspot; it picks up both open and closed networks. WiFi Spy sells for US$29.95.

Student Unions in UK Become Wi-Fi
Hotspots

Student Unions in UK Become Wi-Fi
Hotspots 07/06/2004 12:07 PM
55 students unions will be unwired: SUBzone, which is building out the network, says 1.2 million students will be covered through their efforts starting in Leeds. Pricing isn't noted....

Hogging Public Hotspots

Hogging Public Hotspots 04/22/2004 06:42 PM
Somewhere between satire and anarchy lies parody: WiFi Hog kicks other users off public hotspots, even owner: This is clearly practical performance art, but it's an interesting Gedanken (und Praktisches) experiment as well. If a third party can gain access over a public hotspots, how does that transform the relationship of the owner and other users to that service? [link via comment on The Feature where David Pescovitz further explains the project.]...

A World Without Wireless Hotspots?

A World Without Wireless Hotspots? 05/26/2004 12:17 PM
Following the demise of Cometa last week, suddenly some people are "concerned" that all these wonderful WiFi hotspots are going to all go away. This seems like a bit of an overreaction to one company whose repeated missteps were well known throughout the industry. As the article points out, more and more people are now making travel arrangements based on their ability to have wireless access where they stay (and even at the airports they fly in and out of). If you have a situation where so many people want something, clearly there's an opportunity. Just because one company couldn't figure out that their business model would never work, doesn't mean that hotspots are going away. Companies are increasingly realizing that wireless access is important for business - whether they charge for them or even when they give away access for free. There are plenty of reports about places that say the return on free WiFi is significant. Also, many hotels and restaurants that set up free WiFi for their customers realize that the benefits for employees pays for itself as well. It seems a bit premature to assume that because one company couldn't make a bad business model work that the entire industry is doomed.

Open Source Hotspots

Open Source Hotspots 05/25/2004 01:29 PM

Tales of New Hotspots, Services

Tales of New Hotspots, Services 03/08/2004 11:15 PM
Wayport is just one of a handful of companies announcing new places to find hotspots over the last week: Visitors to San Francisco's Moscone Center will be able to get access from Wayport in common areas and meeting rooms by the spring. Most of the conference center will be covered by then with the rest coming later. A slightly different clientele will likely be using a new hotspot in Philadelphia. The mayor announced that the city will set up a hotspot in Love Park. Apparently the park used to be filled with skateboarders who were recently banned from using the park. But a compromise is being worked on that will allow skateboarders during certain hours. They'll now be able to tote their laptops to the park as well. In other city hotspot news, San Jose is planning a big bash Thursday, March 11 at 11:00 at the Circle of Palms to celebrate San Jose's downtown Wi-Fi service. The mayor and members of the Silicon Valley Wireless Communications Alliance will be there. Demonstrations of the service will be available and the new Downtown Wi-Fi portal will be launched. Finally, for those iPass customers who have been waiting for the iPass/T-Mobile agreement to come to fruition, the wait is over. Starting today, iPass users will see 4,200 T-Mobile hotspots in the iPass directory of available access sites. IPass customers can also find more information about those and all iPass broadband access sites now that iPass has licensed a directory tool from JiWire. IPass customers will be able to view maps of where the hotspots are and read detailed information about the venues that offer the hotspots. The tool includes information about all iPass broadband locations, wired or wireless, around the globe. JiWire is a Wi-Fi Networking News partner. The announcement about the T-Mobile sites isn't available online and JiWire doesn't seem to have posted its news release on its site yet....

WeRoam Adds New Hotspots

WeRoam Adds New Hotspots 06/24/2004 12:51 PM
WeRoam, which offers authentication, billing, and settlement services to operators, added Ireland's Bitbuzz to its network: Bitbuzz now has about 30 hotspots but plans to grow. The agreement means that customers of WeRoam's operator customers, such as Orange of Switzerland, can now roam onto Bitbuzz hotspots. WeRoam mainly touts its ability to do SIM-based authentication but it will support other types of authentication based on the capabilities of the hotspot operator. We covered WeRoam's business model and how it compares to other roaming solutions in May....

New Take on Free Hotspots:
NewburyOpen.net

New Take on Free Hotspots:
NewburyOpen.net 11/17/2003 03:01 PM
Michael Oh may have one of the most unique versions of a free Wi-Fi network anywhere. Oh wanted to extend Wi-Fi around his office, located on a tony stretch of Newbury Street in Boston, and to the shops on the street. He quickly concluded that he would have to charge users too much if he wanted to build a robust and reliable network that customers would pay to use. Instead, he decided to build a free network in hopes that it might serve as good PR for his Mac consulting, sales, and support business, Tech Superpowers. But building a free network that included more than one access point (AP) would be expensive to maintain because it would require paying for high speed data lines for backhaul. So Oh developed his own network architecture. "From an economic standpoint, it's an interesting architecture because it's simple," Oh said. "We can put up nine locations with a single T1." At each remote location he uses Apple APs plus wireless bridges from Linksys that were originally designed to wirelessly enable printers. At his central location is an AP with two outdoor antennas, each pointing in a different direction. The remote repeaters look like any type of client to the central AP. "So the AP at our location sees each repeater as nine client cards out there," he said....

Boingo Adds 200 Hotspots

Boingo Adds 200 Hotspots 12/22/2003 04:13 PM
Boingo has added 200 hotels with Wi-Fi networks built by Arescom to its network: Also, Boingo partnered with Motive to offer service provisioning software to carriers. The software makes it easier for end users to configure their computers for wired or wireless broadband connections....

Keep clear of spoofing at hotspots

Keep clear of spoofing at hotspots 03/23/2005 08:02 AM
TechWorld Mar 23 2005 10:09AM GMT

Mobiles track down wi-fi hotspots

Mobiles track down wi-fi hotspots 09/17/2004 06:13 AM
Fans of wireless internet access can now find their nearest wi-fi hotspot using their mobile phone.

Ithaca ISP Adds Hotspots

Ithaca ISP Adds Hotspots 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
Ithaca, NY, LightLink adds hotspots to its wireless mix: LightLink provides a multi-mile wireless link to my friend, colleague, and co-author Adam Engst, with whom I wrote The Wireless Networking Starter Kit. LightLink is providing free Wi-Fi equipment to qualifying locations, and will offer both free and paid access. Guests who are not LightLink subscribers (either to home, business, or the hotspot service itself) will have email and Web (port 80 only) access. Subscribers receive full access to all ports, so they can run VPNs and other software. It's a nice model that's being pursued by Telerama in Pittsburgh in which the hotspot market is of nominal value to the ISP as a pure revenue stream, but rather reinforces their ability to sign up more lucrative and steady fixed wired (DSL, etc.) or wireless customers....

Intel promotes Net hotspots

Intel promotes Net hotspots 01/06/2005 02:33 AM
AME Info Jan 6 2005 6:02AM GMT

DoCoMo Wi-Fi Phone Won't Work at
Hotspots

DoCoMo Wi-Fi Phone Won't Work at
Hotspots 07/13/2004 05:03 PM
TheFeature.com discusses how DoCoMo's 3G/WLAN phone protects cell voice business model: Carlo Longino writes that DoCoMo's N900iL handset works on 3G cell networks and office Wi-Fi networks, but that the company has somehow disabled it from working in hotspots. Is it disabled, or can it just not handle the authentication? Gateway pages aren't good for handheld devices, especially cell phones, but this is a great opportunity for 802.1X to enter the scene and handle the authentication. Longino expects that DoCoMo, T-Mobile, and other carriers won't make it easy to use voice over just any old Wi-Fi network because it could erode voice revenue....

Cell Phones Find Hotspots

Cell Phones Find Hotspots 09/17/2004 12:24 PM
A new service in the UK lets Wi-Fi users find nearby hotspots with their cell phones: By sending a text message to a certain mailbox, users will receive a list of the nearest Wi-Fi hotspots. The service offers up hotspots that are near the cell site that the user's phone is communicating with. This is a fantastic offering for finding hotspots in an area users may not be familiar with. There are plenty of hotspot locators online, but they require users to investigate hotspots in the area in advance. For all the procrastinators out there or for folks who may find themselves unexpectedly in need of a hotspot, the cell phone locator service is great. Now this company just needs to start offering the service in the United States…...

WiFi hotspots should have semantics and
geotags

WiFi hotspots should have semantics and
geotags 03/22/2005 05:00 PM
Cory Doctorow: Brad Templeton's got a neat idea -- add geotagging and semantics to WiFi hotspots:

It would contain a mixed XML/HTML packet with a variety of useful fields and general text. These could range from simple descriptions ("This access point belongs to Joe Smith, I'm a programmer") to information ("On this site, Paul Revere stopped on his ride to consult with local minutemen") to street directions ("Turn right to get to highway 101, left for downtown") to, of course, advertising ("We sell fresh fruit and have a special on plums today.")

In other words, a replacement for signs and billboards and markers. And perhaps much more. Access points would also talk about themselves, declaring, for example, if the owner is offering open internet access for free or for fee, or has a local database of information, and what class of information is in the main text. The local lattitude and longitude for those without a GPS could be useful, along with local maps data in a compact form.

Link (Thanks, Brad!)

Update: Felix sez, "plazes is collaborative geo-tagging of networks, not just WiFi but any LAN. Unique identifier is the router´s MAC ID. In addition to structured data like address and type of network, people can upload pics and comments for that plaze/network. Every network gets a linkable URL and right now, we are working on a RDF representation of the geodata."

HarperCollins Creates Bookstore Hotspots

HarperCollins Creates Bookstore Hotspots 06/05/2005 10:56 PM
Publisher will build hotspots at bookstores in innovative approach: Sure, Barnes & Noble and Borders Books have had hotspots for some time now, with Borders claiming the older network. (Barnes & Noble signed its Cometa deal weeks before it shut down; now SBC operates B&N hotspots.) But HarperCollins's plan will bring Wi-Fi with a HarperCollins splash page to what sounds at least like a wider variety of booksellers and at no cost. It's an interesting move because many bookstores aren't set up to handle people with laptops, and there's always been some concern that access to perfect information in the form of book price comparisons at Amazon.com (or even my own service, isbn.nu) would erode on-the-spot impulse buying. The company said in a press release that they will launch a four-month pilot program, to be announced at this weekend Book Expo America. The publisher is providing free Wi-Fi access at the show....

Securing wireless hotspots with RADIUS

Securing wireless hotspots with RADIUS 04/07/2005 09:33 PM
TechWorld Apr 8 2005 1:31AM GMT

iPass Hits 11,179 Hotspots Worldwide

iPass Hits 11,179 Hotspots Worldwide 07/06/2004 12:07 PM
iPass say they crossed the 10,000 hotspots mark in their aggregated network and then some: iPass now offers 11,179 Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide through aggregated partner networks. The release also says that they have 12,000 more under contract for the future, which is a quite extraordinary number. The 2,900 hotels included in this total all have Wi-Fi in at least public spaces, a company spokesperson confirmed. Many of them may have wired in-room broadband, however. An increasing number of hotels are starting with Wi-Fi from the get-go; others are converting from wired broadband to Wi-Fi for greater flexibility as costs drop, range increases, and wireless backhaul becomes simpler. The largest hotspot operators in the U.S. have boiled down to three companies for the near future: T-Mobile (about 4,500), Wayport (several hundred hotels with a mix of Wi-Fi and wired broadband, plus thousands of McDonald's coming online this year), and SBC FreedomLink (several thousand The UPS Store outlets, managed by Wayport)....

In Brief: MCI adds thousands of wireless
hotspots

In Brief: MCI adds thousands of wireless
hotspots 03/22/2005 04:43 PM
MCI on Tuesday launched 1,300 new Wi-Fi hotspots in Europe and the Asia/Pacific region, and will launch 3,400 hotspots in the U.S. in May. In addition to typical Wi-Fi locations such as airports and hotels, the MCI expansion will bring hotspots to new places that MCI customers requested, including cafes, bookstores, and business service centers. The Wi-Fi service is part of an MCI service for medium-size and large businesses called Remote Access Services, which includes dial-up, virtual private network connections. The MCI service includes a software package that connects users to the Internet using the connection of their choice. While other carriers offer Wi-Fi access, MCI's service ties Wi-Fi, dial-up, and broadband wired access together in one package. MCI customers don't need a separate subscription to multiple wireless providers for Wi-Fi access. The MCI service includes an unlimited Wi-Fi plan for $40 a month as an add-on to dial-up service. A time-based plan charges $8 an hour for the first hour, with a maximum of $15 a day.

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Property hotspots 'outside South'

Property hotspots 'outside South' 07/09/2004 08:30 PM
Crewe sees the UK's sharpest house price rise as southern England fails to register on the Halifax's hotspot chart.

Boingo To Add Wi-fi Hotspots In Mexico
With Telmex

Boingo To Add Wi-fi Hotspots In Mexico
With Telmex 09/13/2004 05:28 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Sep 13 2004 9:45AM GMT

iPass aggregates Swisscom hotspots

iPass aggregates Swisscom hotspots 12/03/2003 09:50 AM
Busily testing access points

BT Openzone on track to launch more
Wi-Fi hotspots

BT Openzone on track to launch more
Wi-Fi hotspots 01/22/2004 10:17 AM
Computer Buyer Jan 22 2004 1:36PM GMT

T-Mobile Hotspots Free in Germany

T-Mobile Hotspots Free in Germany 12/22/2003 04:13 PM
Through the end of February, T-Mobile hotspots in Germany are free to all users: AOL subscribers can also reportedly find free hotspots in Germany at Stadtnetz, but I can't vouch for the content of the site as it's all in German. [via Klaus.]...

Find Wi-Fi Hotspots without a Net
Connection (01-Mar-2004; 2.1K)

Find Wi-Fi Hotspots without a Net
Connection (01-Mar-2004; 2.1K) 03/06/2004 01:50 AM

Encinitas and Rancho Santa Fe Wi-Fi
Hotspots

Encinitas and Rancho Santa Fe Wi-Fi
Hotspots 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
I am thirteen years old and recently became interested in Warchalking/Wardriving after seeing the article in Wired magazine. I've looked through many wi-fi locator websites and found little or no wireless networks near my house, which I can understand. So, I decided to create my own map.
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