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SBC is Hotspot Hero?SBC is Hotspot Hero?SBC is Hotspot Hero? 07/26/2004 12:37 PM They're late to the game, but they're ready to party: It's a funny thing. When SBC Communications first announced their FreedomLink plans last year with plans build 6,000 hotspots over a couple of years, it seemed like yet another announcement of large numbers with no track record. Cometa was still on its 20,000 hotspots prediction and had only a handful. McDonald's hadn't decided its partner and was in limited trials. Wayport seemed stuck on hotels. And T-Mobile stayed focused--as it still does--on a few ubiquitous chains. In the space of a few months, SBC has moved from last man in, to practically first mover. Let's review: The UPS Store. They will install Wi-Fi in thousands of UPS Store outlets, which are places that business people already congregate. This will probably also necessitate a change of thinking for that mailing and business operation so that they can make it easier for people to work for periods of time in their stores. Wayport managed services. They hired Wayport to build out their FreedomLink locations instead of creating a new division with no experience in house. Wayport's Wi-Fi World and McDonald's. They're the first telco to sign up to resell Wayport's McDonald's network, which will ultimately be several thousand stores over the next couple of years. Wayport/McDonald's supplier. They're also providing DSL and other connectivity to many of the McDonald's that Wayport is disconnected, which is part revenue, part branding for them as part of the Wi-Fi World co-marketing model Wayport is pursuing. Airports, airports, airports. They have roaming agreements now for their FreedomLink users onto Concourse, Wise, Wayport, and (reportedly) Sprint PCS's airport locations. There are only a handful of major airports not represented by those networks: SFO and Boston Logan are the two that come to mind. Pushing Wi-Fi into homes. SBC is selling 3,000 Wi-Fi routers a day to their home DSL users. This will drive adoption by their users of Wi-Fi. People without Wi-Fi will buy adapters or new systems because of the ease of sharing. Pushing hotspots subscriptions to their DSL subscribers. It's a coming, and it's going to be good--SBC keeps saying in its press releases that they will offer FreedomLink at a substantial discount to their DSL subscribers. $10 per month for unlimited use? $8? $15? Who knows. But it's an audience they've already got and they can offer them nationwide service with several thousand locations... This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)SBC is Hotspot Hero?Grok Headline matches for SBC is Hotspot Hero?My HeroMy Hero 04/26/2004 07:05 PM Davi d Bowie invites fans to remix his songs.
The British music star has given fans the right to create a new song by using computer music software to blend or “mash up” two existing tracks. The winning song will be released as an MP3 and its creator will win a car. ”I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself,” Bowie told The Times newspaper.[The Digital Music Weblog] My new heroMy new hero 12/31/2004 12:54 PM DOJ coup d'etat. Ashcroft is gone. Now, six days before the confirmation hearings of Alberto Gonzales, the acting Attorney General, Daniel Levin, issues a new official memo (pdf)on torture, reversing and specifically repudiating the definitions of torture from the August 2002 memo addressed to Gonzales. The new memo states, among other things, 'we disagree with statements in the August 2002 Memorandum limiting "severe" pain under the statute to "excruciating and agonizing" pain [...] or to pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death' Everybody Wants to be a HeroEverybody Wants to be a Hero 01/23/2004 02:21 PM Both Microsoft and open-source backers are claiming to be leading the charge to break down the digital divide in Third-World countries. From zero to heroFrom zero to hero 01/16/2004 11:33 AM This is like a commercial for the atkins diet and golds gym. (quicktime mov) "Hero""Hero" 08/27/2004 01:29 PM It took the slow boat from China, but Zhang Yimou's dazzling martial-arts epic has finally come to American movie theaters. It was well worth the wait. "Hero in Fallujah""Hero in Fallujah" 12/19/2004 03:21 PM The Hero of WWDCThe Hero of WWDC 06/17/2005 04:30 PM (Update 12 June 2005: this post has been edited so that no one person at Apple is singled out—teams are teams, and the entire Intel team deserves a huge round of applause.) At WWDC a member of the Intel team helped me get NetNewsWire and MarsEdit building as universal binaries. It took a little under two hours. It took as long as that only because these two apps are made up of over a dozen projects, and we had to change the settings (the famous checkbox, plus some other things) and rebuild each project individually. Code changes? Nope, just time spent mainly in various inspector windows in Xcode getting things set up correctly. And that’s why I think this transition will be a success—because it was so easy to create universal binaries, thanks to the great work of these folks and the hands-on help they gave developers at WWDC.  I’m aware that for some developers the transition won’t be so smooth. But it will be smooth for a huge number of developers, and that’s an incredible achievement. Hero Helper X 2.0Hero Helper X 2.0 09/11/2004 12:04 AM Aid for the popular Hero Games role playing system. Auntie HeroAuntie Hero 09/16/2004 09:33 AM 20th-century American artist, Alice Neele , "The Auntie Hero": "While Uptowners were making their way downtown to have their portraits painted by Warhol, Downtowners were going up to 107th Street to sit for this bohemian, auntie-like artist." Check out seven decades of raw, sometimes amazing, but always deeply humane portraits of the often larger-than-life figures who peopled the New York art/lit scene and Neel's personal landscape, including such iconic irrepressibles as Joe Gould, Andy Warhol, Annie Sprinkle, and Bella Abzug. (NSFW) Hero Builders.comHero Builders.com 12/17/2003 07:15 AM Amusing and somewhat disturbing all at the same time .. Okay, I find this really hilarous .. Action heroes for modern times .. truly tasteless dot com .. bearded Saddam dolls .. these action figures .. als Puppen erwerben .. make an honest buck .. rest herobuilders.com A True HeroA True Hero 03/19/2005 02:56 AM Private Johnson Beharry awarded the Victoria Cross. The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award for bravery in combat. It's awared is incredibly rare. The last awards were made posthumously after the Falklands War in 1982. The last living recipients were two Australians in the Vietnam War in 1969. It is said that in order to qualify for a VC, conditions must be so dangerous that only 10% of recipients survive. The actions of Private Johnson Beharry are therefore worthy of a mention. An XML Hero Reconsiders?An XML Hero Reconsiders? 03/19/2003 10:44 PM Kendall Grant Clark assesses reaction to an essay by Tim Bray that claimed XML was too difficult to work with. Was Bray right, or is he out of touch? Hero Helper X 1.5Hero Helper X 1.5 12/03/2003 05:00 PM An aid to the popular HeroGames role playing system. It helps GM’s and players during gaming sessions. How to Become a Hotspot GuideHow to Become a Hotspot Guide 04/23/2004 08:23 PM Looking to become a hotspot? Jiwire has published an in-depth guide: There's no question we get more frequently at Wi-Fi Networking News than from individual venues or small chains of locations that want to install Wi-Fi service but don't know quite how to start or how to evaluate offerings. This Jiwire piece offers very specific advice and direction on making primary decisions--free or fee? on your own or in a network? turnkey or solutions provider?--and then who to turn to.... Hotspot HelperHotspot Helper 01/16/2004 11:01 AM MediaTracker is offering a low-cost way for venues to manage their hotspots: The management software, ControlAP, costs $149 and can support several platforms and both external APs plugged into a computer or an internal wireless card. Because the software is Java based, it can be run from a handheld with a wireless card. "It's a do-it-yourself mechanism to control hotspots," said Dario Laverde, MediaTracker's founder. "The initial target is cafes and small store fronts." The software enables a captive portal Web page where end users can sign in or see a welcome page if the hot spot is free. For now, a cafe may decide to offer 30 minutes of free use, then require customers to approach the counter where they pay the barista for additional use. A cafe could also ask customers to buy another coffee in exchange for additional use rather than set a price based on time, Laverde suggested. An employee authorizes additional use from a computer behind the counter where the ControlAP software can be integrated with existing point-of-sale software. The next version of ControlAP will support credit card billing. The software logs traffic and allows a cafe to block URLs or users by MAC address. It can be used to manage wired connections, too, so a cafe that may have some wired computers available for customers can manage those together with users of the Wi-Fi network from the same tool. Laverde says that thousands of people have downloaded the free version of the software, which is meant to serve as a trial version because it limits simultaneous users to five and offers stripped-down features. The full version of the software was just introduced this week. MediaTracker isn't alone in the market chasing independent cafes that don't want to partner with any of the larger hotspot operators, but it does offer some unique differences from its competitors. Surf and Sip, for example, offers a hosted hotspot management solution that either costs $50 per month if the hotspot is free for users, or 25 percent of profits for a paid location. Sputnik offers a robust solution for managing hotspots but is designed for the small to medium-sized hotspot operator that has multiple locations. AirPath Wireless also offers a hotspot management solution but seems to be targeting larger hot spot operators--Sprint uses AirPath's solution. NoCatAuth is also an option but appropriate mostly for technical folks.... A Hotspot on Every CornerA Hotspot on Every Corner 07/29/2004 08:25 PM Details are sketchy, but New York City may allow six telecom firms to pay up to $25 million per year to install wireless transmitters on 18,000 lamp posts: The article is full of sturm und drang about health effects, but the real story is that the city is trying to counter its dead zones without tearing up the streets. It's unclear precisely what kind of transmitters these will be, but you can bet your boppy that the goal will be wireless backhaul for the majority of the points using mesh or simple point-to-point. This endeavor could bring massively improved voice, 2.5G/3G cell data, and Wi-Fi into a city without ripping up all the roads once again or putting giant cell antennas on every last building. The companies include well-known and never-heard-of-'em: the New York Post says they are two cellular providers, Nextel and T-Mobile, three non-cellular companies, ClearLinx Network Corp., Crown Castle Solutions, and Dianet Communications. The sixth, IDT Business Services, will provide telephone service via the Internet. [link via GigaOm]... New UK Wi-Fi Hotspot FinderNew UK Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder 01/09/2004 09:52 PM Firstly, i would like to say "Happy New Year". Anyway, this posting is because i have made a new UK Hotspot finder site that finds the nearest Wi-Fi Hotspots (Commercial and Free) to your postcode. At the moment, Wi-Fish.com (the name of the site) is UK-Only because of the search algorhythm... Hotspot CameraHotspot Camera 01/05/2005 06:47 PM Did Kodak just build 802.1X into a camera? Kodak will release a camera in June that can upload photos via T-Mobile hotspots. The software to enable this uploading isn't due until fall, for some reason. The new Easyshare-One sounds like a combination of Apple iPod Photo, PDA functionality (for wireless and previewing), and digital camera. It comes with a trial for using T-Mobile's service. I'm guessing that this camera's fall software release will leverage the 802.1X authentication that T-Mobile has added to its North American venues. 802.1X is both simple and hard. If Kodak preloads unique accounts, or allows people to set this up through PC or camera back software, there's very little complexity. The 802.1X supplicant in the camera can manage the connection. The camera will retail for $600 plus $100 for the optional Wi-Fi card. Terms of the free trial service and monthly pricing are yet to be determined. It's a direct shot across the bow at cellular operators who are offering poor upload speeds on their high-speed network. Given that T-Mobile has articulated a long delay in their 3G rollout plans and don't want to clog their GPRS networks, this seems like a perfect symbiosis for Kodak and T-Mobile.... Dark Hero of the Information AgeDark Hero of the Information Age 03/14/2005 06:03 PM Norbert Wiener is known as the father of Cybernetics. His 1948 book on cybernetics is standard reading for AI and Robotics engineers even today. He was a child prodigy, wrote science fiction, and did some of the earliest computer research on chess playing algorithms (after being defeated at chess by a chess playing automaton built by 19th century Spanish scientist Leonardo Torres y Quevedo). His ideas on feedback provided part the basis for John Von Neumann's pioneering work. Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman have co-authored a new book, Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Father of Cybernetics. A New York Times book review (registration required or use bugmenot to bypass it) gives a good summary of the biography. Canada's True Hero.Canada's True Hero. 09/17/2004 05:45 PM Canada's True Hero The author Douglas Coupland has a book coming out in 2005 about fellow Canadian Terry Fox. Until then, read this interesting, but heart-warming article. Antarctic hero 'reunited' with catAntarctic hero 'reunited' with cat 06/21/2004 07:51 AM This month, the carpenter on Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance ship and his beloved tabby, Mrs Chippy, will be "reunited", when a statue of the cat is placed on his grave. Amazon tax gaffe: from hero to zeroAmazon tax gaffe: from hero to zero 02/18/2004 10:46 AM Amazon is a super-savvy Internet company, except when they screw up. I, along with other Amazon Associates, am now reeling from the double whammy of a database error compounded by unusuable voice mail. According to Amazon, I no longer exist as a legitimate taxpaying citizen, and I've been told it will take the full might of the IRS to correct Amazon's mistake. Home Game Hero 1.0.2Home Game Hero 1.0.2 04/13/2005 12:06 PM Poker timer. Choose between 15, 10 and 20 minute poker blinds timer intervals. "A Real American Hero ""A Real American Hero " 04/24/2004 03:25 AM SARS Hero Jailed?SARS Hero Jailed? 07/01/2004 10:23 AM
Hero PC 'to get George Cross'Hero PC 'to get George Cross' 04/16/2005 03:01 PM Daily Mail Apr 16 2005 6:50PM GMT DVD Hacker Hero Acquitted AgainDVD Hacker Hero Acquitted Again 12/22/2003 11:22 AM CBS News Dec 22 2003 10:22AM ET the difference between a winner and a
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