LocustWorld: Swarming over the traditional telcos

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LocustWorld MeshAPs are Now SIP Gateways

LocustWorld MeshAPs are Now SIP Gateways 04/14/2004 06:30 PM
Upping the ante against commercial access point manufacturers, LocustWorld's MeshAP software now offers voice gateways baked in: The MeshAP software is free to download, or you can buy preconfigured mesh boxes from LocustWorld. The update allows each link in a mesh to route calls correctly to a roaming user with a SIP phone. [link via Slashdot]...

Swarming Wi-Fi

Swarming Wi-Fi 08/06/2004 11:27 AM

Direct and Related Links for 'Swarming Wi-Fi'

“In buildings with dozens of Wi-Fi transmitters, signals can overlap and interfere with each other, slowing data transmission. Propagate Networks is introducing so-called swarm logic software that could solve this problem. ” The actual product is called AutoCell™. Check out the link above to their website for more info….

Swarming for Peace

Swarming for Peace 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Jack Bury, a 20-year old poet, is co-creator of a Microsoft IE add-in called Eyebees. If you join a "swarm" - people interested in the same topic - the add-in shows you the movement of all other swarm members as they go from site to site. Click on one of the dots representing a swarm member and you are taken to whatever site they're visiting. It's a visceral visual experience. To join the peace swarm, download the Eyebees software from www.eyebees.com and join the "Eyebees March on Washington" swarm (under the category of "The Rally") at Eyebees.com. Jack is suggesting...

Swarming and Grids

Swarming and Grids 12/19/2004 03:07 PM

I ran across SwarmStream and thought it was a wonderful piece of technology.  Basically, they took BitTorrent and slipped it under Java so that any Java application can trade bits as fast as BitTorrent can.

Unfortunately, not enough people needs it badly enough to make it a successful venture IMHO.  Same opinion applies to the grid technology.  If you can plug your feed tube into some government agency with a fat budget, excellent.  If not, your meals will be far and wide in-between.  If you took Google's wonderfully expansive service technology and turned it into a product, will it survive?  My opinion is that it won't.

Who Needs It?

Really.  Who needs server farms?  Google does.  Who else and how many of them are there?  More importantly, are they the kind of customers with the right sense of value?  Would Yahoo or Microsoft buy it?  I don't think so.  People who need it are few and most of them are too gung-ho to be interested in buying instead of building it themselves.  Banks?  Are banks prepared to own or even rent server farms?

Who Wants It?

Swaming requires third party participants.  That cuts entire financial services sector out.  And entertainment industry is, in some ways, more conservative than the banking industry.  Will they let their latest hot movie swarm?  What a joke.

Revolution is a lonely business if you jump the gun.  Swarming and grid technologies, active or not, are ahead of its time.  If you got enough money and marketing know-how, you can hurry time.  Otherwise, you are walking into a world of hurt.  Maybe you can prevail.  Most likely not.

Swarming robots

Swarming robots 11/14/2003 01:46 PM
iRobot, the company behind the Roomba, doesn't just make robotic vacuum cleaners. They're also building robots that could group together in swarms and be used to clear landmines or rescue earthquake victims:The point of the Swarm project is to be able to program lots of robots to communicate with each other using proprietary Behavior Language software. And we're not talking about 10 or even 100 bots, but 10,000 or more. The name "Swarm" comes from the robots' ability to work like insects... The robots communicate using an infrared light signal that begins with a chosen leader (which has an antenna on its head) and then spreads to the rest. So essentially, they "talk" to each other. When this happens, the lights begin flashing. Each light has an accompanying sound. The sounds tell the robots how far away they are from each other.Read...

Self-propelled swarming robot traffic
cones: nuff sed.

Self-propelled swarming robot traffic
cones: nuff sed. 04/28/2004 05:27 PM
Self-propelled swarming robot traffic cones: nuff sed.

The new road markers have been developed by Shane Farritor, a roboticist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in a bid to help reduce the $100 billion per year that the Department of Transportation estimates is lost to the US economy through accidents and delays caused by highway lane closures.

The self-propelled markers take the form of robotic three-wheeled bases for the brightly coloured barrels that are set out to demarcate road repair zones. Farritor says they can open and close traffic lanes faster and more safely than humans.

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"Mod_torrent is a drop in solution for
Apache servers when deploying the
BitTorrent file swarming technology"

"Mod_torrent is a drop in solution for
Apache servers when deploying the
BitTorrent file swarming technology" 06/11/2004 03:17 AM

Atair Aerospace Becomes the First
Company in the World to Demonstrate
Flocking and Swarming Capabilities on
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Atair Aerospace Becomes the First
Company in the World to Demonstrate
Flocking and Swarming Capabilities on
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 03/31/2005 03:03 AM
For the first time in history, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have flown using flocking and swarming algorithms. “Flocking and Swarming” are two words used interchangeably to refer to modeled flight that is biologically inspired by the flight of flocking birds and swarming insects. [PRWEB Mar 31, 2005]

Traditional ex/vi 1/3/04

Traditional ex/vi 1/3/04 01/03/2004 04:33 PM
The classic vi with POSIX.2 enhancements.

Traditional ex/vi 6/5/04

Traditional ex/vi 6/5/04 06/05/2004 08:47 AM
The classic vi with POSIX.2 enhancements.

Thought for the day:Blame telcos for SME
woe

Thought for the day:Blame telcos for SME
woe 01/27/2004 09:52 PM
Computer Weekly Jan 28 2004 2:11AM GMT

Telcos work on super 3G

Telcos work on super 3G 01/04/2005 01:00 PM
Computer Weekly Jan 4 2005 5:16PM GMT

Automated self-service comes to telcos

Automated self-service comes to telcos 03/14/2005 05:54 PM
McKinsey Quarterly Feb 17 2005 12:19AM GMT

Of Databases, Telcos and Linux

Of Databases, Telcos and Linux 08/05/2004 03:54 PM
LinuxWorld: MySQL and MontaVista extend their partnership to Carrier Grade status.

WebSphere Takes On Telcos

WebSphere Takes On Telcos 06/29/2004 10:36 AM
IBM bundles existing Web services technology and hands it off to telcos looking to beef up their offerings.

Big telcos out to corner VoIP

Big telcos out to corner VoIP 12/15/2003 09:19 AM
ZDNet Dec 15 2003 8:48AM ET

Big telcos try to corner VoIP

Big telcos try to corner VoIP 12/15/2003 08:15 AM
ZDNet Dec 15 2003 7:52AM ET

Should The Telcos Be Scared Of VoIP?

Should The Telcos Be Scared Of VoIP? 11/11/2003 06:47 PM
Over at Business Week, they're realizing that VoIP looks damn scary to the traditional phone companies. The turning point, according to the article, was the recent announcement that IBM is going to shift most of its workforce to a VoIP solution instead of a traditional phone system. From there, they look at the media's latest VoIP darling, Skype, to point out that the telcos might be in trouble. More importantly, though, it discusses the recent moves by Stealth Communications to create a public exchange for VoIP networks. While most people think about how the various FWD, SIPPhone type applications might inter-operate, the Stealth announcement could mean that large companies using VoIP wouldn't even need to enter the old telephone network for calls outside the office. If, as is described in the article, both GE and IBM have their own VoIP systems, which connect via this exchange, the call remains entirely over IP and never has to enter the traditional phone system. The question, then, is what should a phone company do? They can't deny that this is coming, but that doesn't mean they just need to roll over and play dead. Just an hour or so ago, at the Pulver Wireless Summit, former FCC chair Reed Hundt was talking about the idea of offering free VoIP calls, and letting consumers free up the money they spend on voice to invest in true broadband access to the home. Opening up the possibilities and allowing more things to happen present new opportunities to make revenue. Holding on to legacy systems and complaining all the way down the drain does little to help anyone. That's not to say that telcos aren't going to face a drastic change in how they do things - or that they'll successfully navigate the change. However, it doesn't necessarily mean that telcos are dead.

Broke telcos doing everything they can -
Qwest exec

Broke telcos doing everything they can -
Qwest exec 04/24/2004 11:34 AM
Wringing bits

EMC sells remote backup to telcos

EMC sells remote backup to telcos 06/15/2004 04:23 PM
EMC said the automated PC data protection technologies, sold under the company's "Proven Solution" brand, extends its information life-cycle management strategy to PCs.

Singapore - Flexible 3g Deadline For
Telcos

Singapore - Flexible 3g Deadline For
Telcos 07/26/2004 08:45 AM
ewirelessnews Jul 26 2004 12:58PM GMT

Sun to bring Opteron, Linux to telcos

Sun to bring Opteron, Linux to telcos 09/08/2004 03:43 AM
New Netra aimed at HP

Telcos, bank share customers

Telcos, bank share customers 05/26/2004 10:34 PM
Sunday Times South Africa May 27 2004 2:26AM GMT

Make BT more transparent, say rival
telcos

Make BT more transparent, say rival
telcos 06/23/2004 07:35 AM
The Register Jun 23 2004 11:37AM GMT

Telcos forge covergence alliance

Telcos forge covergence alliance 06/08/2004 06:04 AM
BT shakes hands with international partners

Ciscos new routers a boon for telcos

Ciscos new routers a boon for telcos 12/10/2003 12:44 PM
Cyber India Online Dec 10 2003 11:52AM ET

RP telcos not ready for 3G technology,
says report

RP telcos not ready for 3G technology,
says report 06/11/2004 09:51 AM
Manila Times Jun 11 2004 2:10PM GMT

Rural telcos dread porting

Rural telcos dread porting 05/21/2004 03:52 AM
USA Today May 21 2004 7:05AM GMT

FCC Rules Telcos Need Not Provide Naked
DSL

FCC Rules Telcos Need Not Provide Naked
DSL 04/03/2005 07:59 PM

Hutchison confirms 3G discussions with
telcos

Hutchison confirms 3G discussions with
telcos 07/13/2004 08:53 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Jul 14 2004 0:31AM GMT

Traditional knowledge 'in peril'

Traditional knowledge 'in peril' 02/19/2004 01:35 AM
A legal loophole means indigenous people's ancient cultural knowledge has to be published for all to see, United Nations researchers say.

Traditional Korean Music

Traditional Korean Music 04/07/2005 03:24 AM

I enjoy all kinds of music but I particularly enjoy traditional korean music.  If you are interested in listening to some, the best album to get started with is the OST album for the Korean movie Sopyonje.  It starts with a bamboo flute instrumental titled Thousand Year-Old Crane.  The instrument is called daekoom, my favorite instrument, which sounds similar to shakuhachi although I think it's deeper and coarser in a satisfying way that sooths the aching inside walls of your heart.  Then it moves on to several pansori songs which to me sounds like a fusion of rap and opera.  I just love pansori!  The only problem is that the CD might be difficult to find outside Korea.

Lingua-ZH-MacChinese-Traditional-0.03

Lingua-ZH-MacChinese-Traditional-0.03 04/16/2005 10:14 AM

Traditional Crafts of Japan

Traditional Crafts of Japan 04/15/2005 01:06 AM
Traditional Crafts of Japan is an incredibly detailed web site maintained by the Association for the Promotion of Traditional Craft Industries of Japan. It covers textiles, pottery, wood, metals, stationary and even tea whisks! It also includes detailed explanations of the background of each individual craft, in depth descriptions of production processes for each item, photo galleries for each product, contact information for manufacturers, interviews with craftsmen, tourist spots to visit in Japan to see each of the crafts being practiced and even quick time videos of these master craftsman at work. Truly a must see for anyone into anything old world Japanese.

Traditional media on a downturn?

Traditional media on a downturn? 04/12/2005 09:04 PM
A cursory look at the markets of media and entertainment shows some clear winners and losers, and we don't expect things to change as interactivity and valued add-ons stake their growing importance.

Traditional take on data clutter

Traditional take on data clutter 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
An analogue display that receives data wirelessly could provide an answer to information overload.

Cisco to Offer New, Upgradeable Routers
for Telcos

Cisco to Offer New, Upgradeable Routers
for Telcos 12/10/2003 03:28 AM
Boston Globe Dec 10 2003 2:36AM ET

Telcos and ISPs prepare for charity bar
battle

Telcos and ISPs prepare for charity bar
battle 03/21/2003 08:10 AM
Pub quiz to determine who's the brainiest of the bunch

Indian Telcos Call For Reserved 3g
Spectrum

Indian Telcos Call For Reserved 3g
Spectrum 06/21/2004 12:09 PM
ewirelessnews Jun 21 2004 2:52PM GMT
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