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]...
This is indeed a great resource, one that I'll probably add to the
slides for my RSS class at SLS.
Turning the corner on "turning the corner"
Turning the corner on "turning the corner"08/12/2004 11:28 AM Political slogans come and go, but CNN
reports that President Bush seems to be nailing the coffin shut
rather quickly on his latest stump speech refrain -- the notion that
America is "turning the corner." And who could blame him? With
disappointing job numbers out, escalating violence in Iraq and
widespread dissatisfaction among seniors with the Medicare
prescription-drug benefit, Bush's "turning the corner" rhetoric can be
turned around against him pretty easily.
King’s Corner 1.0.1
King’s Corner 1.0.108/06/2004 06:31 PM Play a rare and unique solitaire breed with style and class.
Anand's Corner04/01/2005 02:15 PM Computer Power User Apr 1 2005 6:40PM GMT
Memories in the Corner of My Eye
Memories in the Corner of My Eye11/11/2003 05:51 AM A new gadget incorporated into regular glasses aims to help you
remember to bring home the steaks and the agenda for your 3 o'clock
meeting -- but lose the glasses and you're on your own. By Louise
Knapp.
BrainShare is around the corner
BrainShare is around the corner02/10/2004 05:04 AM In mid-December, I mentioned BrainShare in passing fully meaning to
get back to a newsletter devoted to Novell's annual users' conference
sometime in early January. But events, other topics (and, I must
admit, my own faulty memory) have put it off until now. Still, you
shouldn't put off your registration for the event because if you wait
until after Feb. 13 it will cost you an additional $200. That $200
could be the difference between "YES" and "NO" from whoever has to
approve your travel and training requests.
The Corner Shot
The Corner Shot10/31/2003 12:46 PM We're not sure we like the idea of guns that make it easier to kill
people, but the Corner Shot is about as gadgety a firearm as we've
ever seen. Designed so that it can be shot at a right angle, the
Corner Shot has a swiveling barrel with a color camera attached to it
and an LCD screen so you can see exactly what it is you're taking out
without actually having to stick. Read [Thanks, John]...
PeopleSoft in a Corner After Decision (AP)
PeopleSoft in a Corner After Decision (AP)09/10/2004 04:44 PM AP - After defiantly warding off rival Oracle Corp.'s $7.7 billion
hostile takeover for 15 months, business software maker PeopleSoft
Inc. finds itself backed into a corner, with its best chances for
escape tied to forces beyond its control.
Mena's Corner: It's About Time
Mena's Corner: It's About Time05/13/2004 09:26 AM there's a commitment to a free version .. moving to a pay model .. new
pricing ..
everything
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Mena's Corner: Where's the Beef?
Mena's Corner: Where's the Beef?04/23/2004 09:32 AM MT 3.0 won't be a feature release .. Mena Trott on what's new in MT3.0
.. Mena's Corner: Where's the
Beef?
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Universal Computing Just Around The Corner
Universal Computing Just Around The Corner09/13/2004 02:49 PM Here's the scenario: Run any application on any OS on any type of
processor with no performance hit. Sounds like a dream, right? Linux
apps on Windows, Mac apps on Linux, Intel codebase on a PowerPC
chipset... Impossible!
Not according to Silicon Valley startup, Transative Corp. They claim
their QuickTransit software will allow applications to run
transparently on multiple hardware platforms including Mac, PC,
mainframes and servers with no user intervention and almost no
performance hit.
The company claims QuickTransit eliminates the need to port software
from one platform to another. Software applications written for one
platform will run on almost any other, without any modifications to
the underlying program.
"This opens up a whole new world of things you can do, because
previously software was tied to (a) particular processor," said
president and CEO Bob Wiederhold. "It gives you access to a much
greater diversity of software. One of the key breakthroughs is
performance. You can't tell the difference between a translated
application and a native application."
"It's pretty darn impressive," said analyst Jim Turley.
"It's remarkable because it's unremarkable (to see it in action):
It just works." Turley said he watched a Windows laptop running
the Gimp image editor for Linux. The software quickly and efficiently
performed a series of processor-intensive graphics transformations and
effects, Turley said. "There was no performance hit," he
said. "I was expecting a lag, some symptom that things were not
as they should be, but that was not the case. There was no hand-eye
delay. It seemed completely normal. It responded really quickly."
Mena's Corner: Barak at Six Apart07/14/2004 08:58 PM post largo y bastante personal .. wrote a very gracious note .. Mena's
story about this .. A new
CEO
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Mena's Corner: The One With the Blog
Mena's Corner: The One With the Blog04/01/2005 03:11 PM I just had to link to TeeveePad since it's been providing the office
with some good April 1st laughs this morning. Nothing much to say here
other than good job and check it out....
The U.S. economy around Bush's corner
The U.S. economy around Bush's corner08/27/2004 05:36 PM The Commerce Department announced today that the U.S. economy grew by
only 2.8 percent
between April and June, a significant slowdown from the rate of
growth during the first three months of the year. On the eve of a
Republican Convention at which President Bush is likely to extol the
virtues of his tax cuts, the report offers yet another sign that
whatever lies around the corner that Bush keeps insisting the nation
is turning probably isn't a surge of prosperity.
Mena's Corner: Vive Six Apart!07/14/2004 08:59 PM Ublog is now the Six Apart subsidiary for Europe, Middle East and
Africa .. Mena has a good story about
this
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E-Voting Turning a Corner06/17/2004 04:33 PM When a posse of computer scientists first raised dire warnings about
untrustworthy new voting machines in late 2002 and early 2003,
California's top voting official thought they were ``a bunch of nut
jobs.''
But Secretary of State Kevin
Shelley came to understand the risks. And he's working to head
them off.
A flurry of news in recent days convinces me that, at least in
California, voters can have some measure of trust in the ballots
they'll be using in November and beyond. We're not in the clear yet,
partly due to astoundingly obtuse actions by some local officials, but
the progress is now visible and heartening.
More...
Mena's Corner: Six Apart Apparel04/13/2005 08:15 PM Just a quick post to say that we've launched the Six Shop, a fun
little place to buy shirts, hats and whatever we can think of making.
My personal favorites are the Ladies Rebuilding T-Shirt and the Ladies
Wrench T-Shirt....
Hotspot Camera
Hotspot Camera01/05/2005 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....
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 Helper
Hotspot Helper01/16/2004 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....
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...
How to Become a Hotspot Guide
How to Become a Hotspot Guide04/23/2004 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....
Is Bush turning the corner in his re-election bid?
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November 2 is right around the corner. Please help democracy in America
November 2 is right around the corner. Please help democracy in America12/17/2004 06:40 PM November 2 is right around the corner --> Help get out the vote.
There are lots of different ways to help: Like clothes? Buy a T-shirt
that encourges others to vote. Like to call people? Use non-partisan
VoterCall.Org's website to call a newly registered voter and encorage
him or her to vote for the first time. Like technology? Volunteer for
Tech Watch to make sure that the votes are counted accurately.
Religious? Use the Vote All Your Values website to find voters to call
and see if they need help getting to the polls. Like to travel? Sign
up with MoveOn PAC to go to a swing state and drive voters to the
polls. Don't see anything you like? Want to do something else? See the
list at Volunteer Match. But pick something and do it. Democracy is
more than voting, it is also acting....
Big Cable Companies See Next Challenge Around the Corner
Mena's Corner: Quality is a Feature04/18/2005 04:41 PM Movable Type was originally built as a hobby, at a time when asking
users to upgrade frequently was a fun part of participating in the
blogging community, not a burden. At the time, there wasn't even an
idea that blogging...
With Cameras on the Corner, Your Ticket Is in the Mail
With Cameras on the Corner, Your Ticket Is in the Mail01/05/2005 10:11 PM Sensors and cameras are used in many cities to catch drivers who run
red lights. But several studies show the presence of cameras may cause
more accidents, not fewer.
Mena's Corner: Six Apart Redesign Coming02/07/2005 01:27 AM Six Apart is soon to launch a redesign of its sites .. Soon:
sixapart.com website redesign .. SixApart getting facelift .. has
announced
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