802 Networks Offers a Different Approach to the Canadian Hotspot Frenzy

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Canadian Cell Carriers Still Late to
Hotspot Game

Canadian Cell Carriers Still Late to
Hotspot Game 03/06/2004 01:49 AM
It's more vaporware: cell phone billing for hotspot usage for hotspots that don't exist: Over the last year, four Canadian cellular telephone carriers have made deals for inter-network roaming, issued press releases, and most recently said that Wi-Fi usage could be billed directly to a cell phone account. Of course, the carriers haven't built a single hotspot, and the leading Canadian firm FatPort already offers a variety of billing and roaming options. FatPort has partnerships for bilateral roaming with other networks worldwide, including Surf and Sip. Their locations are resold via iPass, GRIC, and Boingo. They work with Excilan to allow certain cell customers to pay via cell phone for their service already. All this to say that the cell companies in Canada are offering a lot of noise for no results. Their promise to build 500 locations by the end of 2004 might be impeded by the locations and chains already under contract to FatPort and to companies to which FatPort has licensed their technology or for which FatPort is operating networks. The article also incorrectly states that hotspot users have to enter a credit card each time, disregarding the many subscription plans and pre-paid card options offered by FatPort in Canada and other hotspot networks worldwide. I know the Globe and Mail is a major daily newspaper, but this article was written by proxy by the cell carriers who told the reporter exactly what to think--note the paucity of quotes and none from companies outside the partnership. [link via TechDirt]...

Which Hotspot Networks Still Stand?

Which Hotspot Networks Still Stand? 05/19/2004 01:26 PM
With the slow rundown of Cometa's clock starting today, which companies remain standing?: I do have a little ego, and my article in Feb. 2001 in The New York Times was the first comprehensive piece written in a major publication about the nascent Wi-Fi hotspot industry. Several companies were striving to raise funds into the mouth of the dotcom collapse, which claimed bloated business plans or too early attempts to capitalize on a technology that only a small number of laptop users had access to. While researching the story in Dec. 2000, I spoke to the chief marketing officer of the Aerzone division of Softnet. Three days after I spoke to him, Softnet pulled the plug because they couldn't raise the funds to perform the build out that they'd contracted with airlines and airports to handle. The firms I interviewed for the article were Wayport, Surf and Sip, Global Digital Media, AirWave, SkyLink (not quoted), and MobileStar. Let's start in reverse order. What's clear from examining each of these firms is that execution and timing mattered as much in 2001 as they do today: controlling costs and building out a robust network in the right place can only go so far: users who pay are still required. MobileStar: While initially well funded, MobileStar had extremely high run rates. I's technical standards were top notch, but expensive, and expenses ran far ahead of any potential revenue. They went bankrupt late in 2001 and had their assets purchased by T-Mobile HotSpot. The company reportedly went through as much as $90 million in investment income while producing no more than a couple million in revenue. T-Mobile has continued to use its brand name and high-level partnerships to run what is generally considered to be an excellent network that's overprice for day use, but not far out of scale on their unlimited monthly plans with one-year commitment. Sky.Link Internet Plus: A promising Canadian firm with hotel and airports service, the company disappeared abruptly a few months after my article came out. It resurfaced briefly with fewer locations before taking a final plunge. Its history and disappearance are a mystery. AirWave: AirWave was a small San Francisco Bay Area set of hotspots in restaurants and coffeeshops that decided that the software they'd written to manage access points was a better product than the hotspot business. In 2002, they exited hotspots, spinning off their locations to...

SMC Networks Ships All-in-One Hotspot
Gateway Solution

SMC Networks Ships All-in-One Hotspot
Gateway Solution 12/19/2004 03:33 PM
SMC® Networks announced the availability of its new comprehensive solution for Internet Hotspot set-up, the EliteConnect™ 2.4GHz 802.11g wireless Hotspot Gateway Kit. Combining a wireless access point/bridge with AAA services (Authorization, Authentication and Accounting) in a secure NAT router with a solid SPI firewall, the new EliteConnect Hotspot Gateway rounds-out the solution with a Mini POS ticket printer to make it easy for businesses to turn WiFi access into revenue. [PRWEB Dec 9, 2004]

SMC Teams with IP3 Networks to Provide
Total Solution for HotSpot Internet
Access

SMC Teams with IP3 Networks to Provide
Total Solution for HotSpot Internet
Access 06/24/2004 03:14 AM
SMC® Networks (www.smc.com), leading provider of networking solutions for the SMB/e, the ISP and all the way home, today announced that its is teaming with IP3 Networks™ to provide complete solutions for building wireless hotspots. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2004]

Netopia Offers Hotspot Solution

Netopia Offers Hotspot Solution 06/28/2004 12:59 PM
Netopia joins a handful of other companies offering a hotspot-in-a-box solution: Netopia's hotspot solution costs $300 for customers that already have a DSL modem and an additional $40 a month for support. Users, which could be a cafe or retail location, are given cards with log on numbers that they can sell or give to end users. Netopia will also sell customers Web site design and maintenance service. Sure and Sip and AirPath are just two of a handful of other companies that offer hotspot services to venues. These services are aimed at venues that don't want to deal with supporting a network themselves. It's unclear yet if the pricing structures set up by these providers will fly in the market....

Law firm offers hotspot Internet to
clients

Law firm offers hotspot Internet to
clients 12/16/2003 02:54 PM
CanadaIT.com Dec 16 2003 1:36PM ET

News: .Mac offers users free T-Mobile
Hotspot access

News: .Mac offers users free T-Mobile
Hotspot access 04/07/2005 10:10 AM
Apple's .Mac service's latest promotion for subscribers is a free 30-day trial account with T-Mobile's HotSpot Wi-Fi service. Available in the U.S. through June 29, 2005, the promotion provides .Mac users with full Internet access through T-Mobile's network of HotSpot Wi-Fi access locations. T-Mobile HotSpot areas include many Starbucks location, FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Centers, Borders Books & Music, airports, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and other locations. What's more, if you sign up for the service's annual subscription plan, you'll get 20 free songs from the iTunes Music Store.

Far Beyond What the TV Networks
Broadcast, the Internet Offers Anything
You Want to Know About the O

Far Beyond What the TV Networks
Broadcast, the Internet Offers Anything
You Want to Know About the O 07/09/2004 05:11 AM
Biz.yahoo.com - Fri Jul 9, 09:29 am GMT

Ubiquiti Networks Offers High-Power
mini-PCI

Ubiquiti Networks Offers High-Power
mini-PCI 06/05/2005 10:56 PM
The company has introduced a b/g and a/b/g pair of 400 mW mini-PCI cards: These are the form factor used inside laptops; to get this kind of signal performance previously, you'd have to go to a PC Card with a protruding antenna. The devices have a retail price of $109. I'll be curious to see if they become a stock item. They use Atheros chips for range....

Indra Networks Offers Hardware-Based
Data Compression

Indra Networks Offers Hardware-Based
Data Compression 03/17/2005 03:23 AM
StorCompress 200, aimed at the enterprise market, is a disk-to-disk storage product that uses the industry-standard "deflate" algorithm for compression in hardware; StorCompress 100 is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses.

Maine Lobster Direct Merges With
Canadian Counterpart Lobster Direct and
Offers Its Larger International Customer
Base New "Cooking Guide"

Maine Lobster Direct Merges With
Canadian Counterpart Lobster Direct and
Offers Its Larger International Customer
Base New "Cooking Guide" 04/13/2005 02:03 AM
Now, with the merger with Lobster Direct, a Canadian company, Maine Lobster Direct will be able to serve all of North America. Maine Lobster Direct has experienced extensive growth each year, as its sales show. With an extended customer base to serve, owners Lee and Joi Kressbach are offering an updated, full-color version of their “Cooking Guide.” [PRWEB Apr 13, 2005]

Wonderfulbuys Launches New Canadian
Website with Free Shipping on Canadian
Orders During the Month of June, Only at
Wonderfulbuys.Ca

Wonderfulbuys Launches New Canadian
Website with Free Shipping on Canadian
Orders During the Month of June, Only at
Wonderfulbuys.Ca 06/17/2005 07:16 PM
Wonderfulbuys, the world’s largest, single-source distributor and e-tailer of unique and As-Seen-On-TV products, today announced the launch of its new Canadian website at www.wonderfulbuys.ca. To celebrate the launch of their new Canadian website, Wonderfulbuys is offering customers free shipping on all orders over $100, during the month of June. [PRWEB Jun 14, 2005]

The Fee Frenzy

The Fee Frenzy 08/12/2004 09:29 AM
You name it, and your lender has found a way to charge you for it.

Media Frenzy

Media Frenzy 07/28/2004 06:30 PM

Man, there's a lot of media here right now. I've just spoken with folks from The Nation, and I've got a team from PBS looking over my shoulder - "Hey, can I get you blogging right now?" Just had a few of the journalists present yell into the blogger group, asking, "Hey, does anyone know Kerry's Secret Service codename?" Through the looking glass.

Coding Frenzy

Coding Frenzy 05/14/2004 09:02 AM
Warning: techtalk follows, you may freely skip this if your eyes glaze over at the word "XML".

I've been in a coding frenzy for the past couple of days. JSPWiki has had some considerable additions, here being the relevant part of the ChangeLog:

2004-05-14  Janne Jalkanen 
<Janne.Jalkanen@nospam.ecyrd.com>

        * v2.1.97.

        * Added preliminary support for the Atom blog API.  It still
does
        not yet completely work, however.

I'll be a non-productive member of the society for the next three-four days (another wedding? Don't people get tired of these things already?), so nothing much may happen. But yeah, I nearly got ecto working with JSPWiki.

There is still however a question on how the blog and wiki apis should interact. You see, the page Main on this site is both a weblog and a wiki page. I'm having trouble, you see:

• GET to /atom/ lists all wiki pages (which means that even on this site, there are a lot of them) - not just the weblogs (since every page can be a weblog, even the weblog entry pages)
• GET to /atom/Main... Should it list all of the blog entries, or should it GET the Wiki page content? Both are valid interpretations...

I'm confused... Which is the correct way to handle this? Should a WikiWebl og combination have separate URIs for Wiki and Weblog functionality? Isn't that kinda redundant?

Update Frenzy

Update Frenzy 03/06/2004 01:56 AM
After a relatively quiet week or two, save the opening of the SF Apple Store (complete with shiny glass stairs), Apple have sneaked out a few updates today. Airport has been updated to 3.3.1, fixing some wake-from-sleep issues and glitches when switching networks, iDVD has been updated to 4.0.1, adding improved reliability when burning DVD's and GarageBand Jam Pack has been updated to 1.0.1. There is also an update available for people using NVidia cards and Cinema Displays.

Frenzy LiveCD 0.3 (Default branch)

Frenzy LiveCD 0.3 (Default branch) 03/17/2005 03:36 AM
Frenzy is a portable system administrator toolkit LiveCD based on FreeBSD. It generally contains software for hardware tests, file system check, security check, and network setup and analysis.

Google autolink debate frenzy

Google autolink debate frenzy 03/14/2005 05:45 PM
I'm too mired in book work to offer much besides pointers, but here are pointers galore on the important controversy over the Google toolbar Autolink feature -- in which Google offers to overlay its own links to certain types of information that it finds on everyone else's Web pages. In 2001 Microsoft proposed putting something similar right into its Internet Explorer browser, and Walt Mossberg and many others blew the whistle on it. Links should be considered part of the vocabulary of Web content; inserting links is tantamount to tampering with the content.

This time it's been Dave Winer who's been blowing the whistle insistently. Here's Dave's case against Autolink. The opposite point of view -- it's a tool, I should be able to use any tools I want once content lands on my screen! -- is smartly summarized by Cory Doctorow here and here. Paul Boutin in Slate, and Tim Bray, also offer good, careful perspectives.

Me, I think the issue is fundamentally political more than technical; Google is now powerful enough that it needs to learn to tread more lightly in areas like this. My hunch is the Google-ites, encapsulated in their "let's bring all the world's information to light!" mission, simply had no idea what an ethical morass they have plopped themselves into. If the past is any indication, they're nimble enough to step out.

Retailers Set for Post-Christmas Frenzy

Retailers Set for Post-Christmas Frenzy 12/26/2004 07:07 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 26 2004 9:33PM GMT

Google stirs a new tech frenzy

Google stirs a new tech frenzy 10/31/2003 05:14 PM
IHT Oct 31 2003 2:28PM ET

Experts see pitfalls in Google IPO
frenzy

Experts see pitfalls in Google IPO
frenzy 09/26/2004 07:01 AM
Chron.com - Sun Sep 26, 06:52 am GMT

Microsoft Not Immune to iPod Frenzy

Microsoft Not Immune to iPod Frenzy 02/05/2005 09:15 PM
Microsoft employees aren't being true to their school. At least that's what a high-level Redmond executive told Wired on Wednesday. According to the source, people walking around Microsoft's campus can be seen with the trademark white headphones of Apple's iPod - and it's getting under the skin of management.

Political Frenzy on Ice (Los Angeles
Times)

Political Frenzy on Ice (Los Angeles
Times) 01/18/2004 05:58 AM
Los Angeles Times - With polls showing four Democratic candidates in a statistical tie, the presidential campaign ricochets across Iowa.

eWeek: Firebird Frenzy Erupts

eWeek: Firebird Frenzy Erupts 02/10/2004 02:42 AM
"After comparing what are commonly thought of as the two most common and most popular open-source databases--MySQL and PostgreSQL--I was floored by the amount of mail I received regarding my ill-advised omission of the hotly popular Firebird open-source database..."

DevArtciles: Starting a Downloading
Frenzy

DevArtciles: Starting a Downloading
Frenzy 12/09/2002 09:13 AM

WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research

WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research 12/22/2004 01:46 AM
Pervasive networks—a ubiquitous “fabric” of computing, information, entertainment, and telemetry capability tied together by high-speed wired and wireless networks—are emerging from a flurry of new communication technologies now being used in home and office networks. Though communications carriers do not offer this type of continuous communication as a service today, the piece parts are already in place. [PRWEB Dec 20, 2004]

David Beckham sparks eBay frenzy

David Beckham sparks eBay frenzy 01/06/2005 02:33 AM
iafrica.com Jan 6 2005 6:33AM GMT

Town at the centre of eBay frenzy sold

Town at the centre of eBay frenzy sold 05/21/2004 02:17 AM
iafrica.com May 21 2004 6:44AM GMT

Fan frenzy greets debut of latest
PlayStation

Fan frenzy greets debut of latest
PlayStation 03/26/2005 06:57 AM
Post-trib.com - Fri Mar 25, 02:03 pm GMT

Doom 3 Demo Prompts Filesharing Frenzy

Doom 3 Demo Prompts Filesharing Frenzy 09/19/2004 03:18 PM
Just hours after a demo of Doom 3 for Windows made its debut onto the Web, copies began to spread throughout the game's vast network of enthusiast sites and peer-to-peer torrents. id Software has produced a playable demo of Doom 3's three level Mars City mission that is sure to push players' hardware to its limits.

$100,000 Fantasy Football Frenzy and
Binion's Poker

$100,000 Fantasy Football Frenzy and
Binion's Poker 08/10/2004 03:51 AM
408 teams competing at the Fantasy Football Frenzy live drafts at the Las Vegas Hilton. Includes live fantasy football draft and special Texas Hold'em No Limit Poker tournament. [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Limited Gmail accounts spur frenzy

Limited Gmail accounts spur frenzy 05/24/2004 06:40 PM
CNN-36 minutes agoWeb users fight to test Google's new e-mail service, create flurry of online bidding for addresses. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In ...

Timid Tokyoites Delay IPod Frenzy

Timid Tokyoites Delay IPod Frenzy 07/27/2004 06:16 AM
The first batch of Apple's iPod minis hits Japan over the weekend, and more than 1,500 shoppers line up to buy them. But the consumer chaos is held up by a pair of camera-shy shoppers at the head of the line. Nobuyuki Hayashi reports from Tokyo.

Google buying frenzy could leave
investors out of pocket

Google buying frenzy could leave
investors out of pocket 05/01/2004 10:42 PM
The New Zealand Herald May 2 2004 1:43AM GMT

Croc Hunter Irwin Flees Media Frenzy
(AP)

Croc Hunter Irwin Flees Media Frenzy
(AP) 01/04/2004 09:30 PM
AP - The "Crocodile Hunter" has become the hunted. Following a weekend of bad publicity, Steve Irwin and his family retreated from the media spotlight and the public outrage he provoked by hand-feeding a crocodile Friday while holding his infant son, a spokesman for his production company said Monday.

Event Update - $100,000 Fantasy Football
Frenzy and Binion's Poker

Event Update - $100,000 Fantasy Football
Frenzy and Binion's Poker 08/15/2004 02:11 AM
We have made the Fantasy Football Frenzy drafts available to people that can't make Las Vegas. 408 teams competing at the Fantasy Football Frenzy live drafts at the Las Vegas Hilton or NOW via the Internet on two special draft dates. August 31st and September 1st. [PRWEB Aug 15, 2004]

Dutch flower market blooms in Valentine
frenzy (Reuters)

Dutch flower market blooms in Valentine
frenzy (Reuters) 02/10/2004 12:03 PM
Reuters - Prices are soaring on the world's biggest flower market as Dutch traders bid for millions of blossoms ahead of Valentine's Day, the rosiest date in the floral calendar.

Demand for limited Google email accounts
spurs frenzy

Demand for limited Google email accounts
spurs frenzy 05/25/2004 05:40 PM
The New Zealand Herald May 25 2004 9:02PM GMT

"CHASE ON FOR SEALED KERRY DIVORCE
DOCUMENTS; PAPER FRENZY AFTER ILLINOIS
SENATE RACE RELEASE "

"CHASE ON FOR SEALED KERRY DIVORCE
DOCUMENTS; PAPER FRENZY AFTER ILLINOIS
SENATE RACE RELEASE " 06/28/2004 08:15 PM

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