New Twist on Combined Wi-Fi/Cellular

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Analysts Push for Combined
Wi-Fi/Cellular

Analysts Push for Combined
Wi-Fi/Cellular 04/09/2004 03:57 PM
A Pyramid Research report ambitiously projects that Wi-Fi users will outnumber cellular data users by 2007: Considering the number of Wi-Fi users today and the number of cellular voice users, who have the potential to start using cellular data, I find that projection unlikely. But the point of the report is that wireless operators should bundle the two types of services to take advantage of the interest in Wi-Fi. That combination of services is exactly what will drive Wi-Fi, concludes another analyst, this time from IDC. She expects prices to decline when the services are combined which will attract more users. In Europe in particular, analysts have been critical of high Wi-Fi prices. The lack of extensive and easy roaming combined with high prices are the main barriers to more Wi-Fi growth at the moment. As the market matures, hopefully both of those factors will fall into place. The head of BT Group's Wi-Fi business would disagree, however. He claims that decreasing prices won't help the market because price is only important to consumers not the business user and business travelers make up the biggest customer base for Wi-Fi. He doesn't think that lower prices in the U.S. have attracted more customers....

Combined Wi-Fi/Cellular an Interim Step

Combined Wi-Fi/Cellular an Interim Step 08/19/2004 03:19 PM
The market for combining Wi-Fi and cellular on a single device is one that hasn't quite been worked out yet: For cellular operators without their own Wi-Fi plays, a combined device might not pay off and could cannibalize their own cellular data networks. Technology Review Magazine suggests that cellular operators may view the combined devices as sort of a tease, to get users hooked on the idea of higher-speed wireless data just in time for them to start unrolling more ubiquitous and higher-speed cellular data offerings. The catch will always be cost so there's a chance the tease may backfire. If users get hooked on Wi-Fi networks that are free to access, they may decide to go out of their way to find a free hotspot rather than pay for the cellular access which at least these days is far more expensive. However, it's likely that a certain market segment will pay for the convenience of having the higher speed wireless data from the cellular operators in more locations....

Mac OS X Combined Update 10.3.9

Mac OS X Combined Update 10.3.9 04/18/2005 10:45 AM
Delivers improved compatibility and reliability for Mac OS X v10.3 “Panther” and is recommended for all users.

New combined jab to be announced

New combined jab to be announced 08/09/2004 02:10 AM
The Scottish Executive is due to detail plans to introduce a five-in-one vaccine for children.

Execution will be key to combined
services from BT and HP

Execution will be key to combined
services from BT and HP 05/18/2004 09:07 PM
Computer Weekly May 19 2004 1:19AM GMT

Mac OS X Combined Server Update 10.3.4

Mac OS X Combined Server Update 10.3.4 05/26/2004 06:25 PM
The 10.3.4 Server Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for Mac OS X Server v10.3.

He combined VoIP and EVDO: and here's
what happened

He combined VoIP and EVDO: and here's
what happened 04/07/2005 01:18 PM
ZDNet Apr 7 2005 4:38PM GMT

Combined 3G and Wi-Fi mobiles gather
momentum

Combined 3G and Wi-Fi mobiles gather
momentum 12/18/2003 03:22 AM
IT-Director.com Dec 18 2003 2:25AM ET

Report: UWB Market Could Top Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth Combined

Report: UWB Market Could Top Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth Combined 05/13/2004 11:01 AM
Unstrung Insider predicts that the many ultrawideband startups are creating a market that potentially could grow larger than Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combined.

Mobile Technology and Sports Combined

Mobile Technology and Sports Combined 07/28/2004 02:41 AM
[PRWEB Jul 28, 2004]

Combined GSM 1800 and 3G UMTS Licence in
Croatia

Combined GSM 1800 and 3G UMTS Licence in
Croatia 01/04/2005 02:53 PM
3G Jan 4 2005 5:19PM GMT

Adobe to Acquire Macromedia; Combined
Comp

Adobe to Acquire Macromedia; Combined
Comp 04/19/2005 02:30 AM
HardwareGeeks.com Apr 19 2005 5:55AM GMT

TIM launches combined EDGE-UMTS network

TIM launches combined EDGE-UMTS network 05/25/2004 02:47 PM
DMeurope.com May 25 2004 6:35PM GMT

Reluctant Vegetarianism And Meat-Eating,
Combined!

Reluctant Vegetarianism And Meat-Eating,
Combined! 11/05/2003 01:18 PM
Wannabe Vegetarians Or Hypocritical Carnivores? Do you enjoy eating meat but hate the way it reaches your table? (More inside.)

"Susan Mernit bl0gs about the combos
that have not yet combined"

"Susan Mernit bl0gs about the combos
that have not yet combined" 07/18/2004 03:09 PM

T-Mobile UK launches combined
3G/GPRS/wi-fi service

T-Mobile UK launches combined
3G/GPRS/wi-fi service 07/22/2004 11:37 PM
DMeurope.com Jul 23 2004 3:40AM GMT

Sheffield Combined Court gets prison
video links

Sheffield Combined Court gets prison
video links 01/05/2004 03:38 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jan 5 2004 3:11AM ET

A Plot Twist

A Plot Twist 04/11/2005 11:37 PM
Computerworld Apr 12 2005 4:23AM GMT

- Twist and turn

- Twist and turn 06/08/2004 09:45 PM
Computer Times Asia Jun 9 2004 2:37AM GMT

Combined Microsoft product offers
resellers new revenue streams

Combined Microsoft product offers
resellers new revenue streams 06/23/2004 06:15 AM
CommsTrade Jun 23 2004 10:17AM GMT

Transport Direct goes live: nationwide
travel data combined

Transport Direct goes live: nationwide
travel data combined 01/05/2005 03:11 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jan 5 2005 7:12AM GMT

Twist a Pen, Open a Lock

Twist a Pen, Open a Lock 09/17/2004 06:08 AM
Wired News Sep 17 2004 9:56AM GMT

Spam fights gets a twist

Spam fights gets a twist 06/25/2004 02:04 AM
USA Today Jun 25 2004 6:13AM GMT

Overclock your PC with a twist of your
wrist

Overclock your PC with a twist of your
wrist 03/13/2003 05:01 PM

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....

HP offers new twist on old idea

HP offers new twist on old idea 12/04/2003 12:10 AM
globetechnology.com Dec 3 2003 11:14PM ET

Genesys, Microsoft Deliver Combined
Solution To Fuse Instant Messaging,
Telephony

Genesys, Microsoft Deliver Combined
Solution To Fuse Instant Messaging,
Telephony 04/05/2005 04:12 AM
ActiveWin.com Apr 5 2005 9:02AM GMT

Economy wheezes, plus a Microsoft twist

Economy wheezes, plus a Microsoft twist 12/26/2004 08:51 AM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 26 2004 11:21AM GMT

RIM patent dispute takes twist

RIM patent dispute takes twist 06/14/2004 11:01 PM
globetechnology.com Jun 15 2004 3:06AM GMT

Other News: Tilt. Twist. Redeem.

Other News: Tilt. Twist. Redeem. 04/16/2004 10:28 AM
Here's one student's approach to the Apple Pepsi promo.

AOL breach gives spam fight a twist

AOL breach gives spam fight a twist 06/25/2004 12:40 AM
USA Today Jun 25 2004 4:25AM GMT

Eurobase Adds TWIST XML To Siena

Eurobase Adds TWIST XML To Siena 12/22/2003 08:58 AM
Technology For Finance Dec 22 2003 8:06AM ET

In New Twist on E-Gov, States Sell Goods
on e-Bay

In New Twist on E-Gov, States Sell Goods
on e-Bay 12/09/2003 03:51 PM
BeSpacific Dec 9 2003 2:53PM ET

A new twist on paying for Internet porn

A new twist on paying for Internet porn 12/29/2003 11:11 AM
A new twist on paying for Internet porn Although no mention of porn in the CNN story. Anyone ever been threatened like this?

Navtel's VoIP Performance & Scalability
Test Platform Now Combined with an SIP
Expert Analysis Tool!

Navtel's VoIP Performance & Scalability
Test Platform Now Combined with an SIP
Expert Analysis Tool! 02/05/2005 09:23 PM
Navtel has announced the immediate availability of "SIP Discovery". It sets new standards of excellence for users who require the most complete, automated, easy to use SIP testing solution available on the market today. Providing extensive statistics on the status of a network, or any entity that composes this network, as well as all the necessary troubleshooting information in a very intuitive graphical user interface, SIP Discovery is the only SIP expert analysis tool that significantly reduces fault identification/resolution cycles, ultimately saving costs to both carriers and equipment manufacturers. [PRWEB Feb 3, 2005]

twist of fait accomplis: Maury's Blooper

twist of fait accomplis: Maury's Blooper 05/20/2004 04:16 AM
all the comments on this post, from people who legitimately think that they’re conversing with Maury Povich .. this example of people thinking they are talking to Maury .. going to see some TV guy called Maury .. Get a load of this!

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Spammers Twist Microsoft's Good Into
Evil

Spammers Twist Microsoft's Good Into
Evil 09/10/2004 02:33 PM

Jungle Beat puts new twist on old game

Jungle Beat puts new twist on old game 03/28/2005 10:31 AM
National Post Mar 28 2005 2:15PM GMT

Reverse twist spam with a half-gainer

Reverse twist spam with a half-gainer 09/11/2004 08:54 AM
I've been noticing that, not surprisingly, spammers seem to be getting yet smarter about their subject lines; I'm having to open more of the little buggers that get through the Thunderbird spam filter to see if they are in fact spams. This morning, though, I got one with a twist I don't understand. the subject line was "Don't open this, I'm pushing cia!is." No, I didn't open it....
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Near-Seamless Handoff for 802.11 Roaming

Near-Seamless Handoff for 802.11 Roaming 04/14/2005 10:03 AM

Two University of California San Diego scientists have developed a better way of seamlessly handing off 802.11 roaming, making it possible for people from one hotspot to another without dropping connections. That's important not so much for data, which can handle a dropped packet here and there, but for streaming audio, video, and voice-over-IP.

The SyncScan solution proposed by Savage and Ramani is a method to continuously monitor the proximity of nearby 802.11 access points. Instead of looking for surrounding access points just when the current signal is running low, a Wi-Fi device with SyncScan regularly checks signal strengths nearby -- but only for very short periods of time. These times are picked to precisely coincide with regularly scheduled "beacon" messages sent by all standard Wi-Fi access points. The process eliminates the current need to start from scratch when looking for a stronger signal, and replaces the long scanning delay with many small delays that are imperceptible to the user.

Faster handoff between Wi-Fi networks promises near-seamless 802.11 roaming [EurekAlert]

Signal Handoff Could Mean Roaming VoIP
over WiFi

Signal Handoff Could Mean Roaming VoIP
over WiFi 04/16/2005 02:44 PM

Handset handoff

Handset handoff 09/13/2004 09:45 PM
USA Today Sep 14 2004 1:58AM GMT

Vertical Handoff Has Liftoff

Vertical Handoff Has Liftoff 11/05/2003 01:12 PM
Industry and academia demonstrate connection handoff across wireless LAN, GPRS, wired LAN on commercial networks: A press release (not included on this site) says that TeliaSonera, Ericsson, Radionet, and the Helsinki University of Technology have demonstrated a seamless handoff across commercial networks. The benefits they cite are absolutely the case: users want uninterrupted services and no monkeying around. Interestingly, if you use NetMotion Wireless software, you can achieve most of this effect today. While you're responsible as a user for changing your connectivity, the NetMotion client and server software maintain the persistent state of the Internet connection....

U.S., Tribunal Disagree on Saddam
Handoff (AP)

U.S., Tribunal Disagree on Saddam
Handoff (AP) 05/11/2004 09:03 PM
AP - The head of Iraq's war-crimes tribunal said Tuesday that the United States has pledged to hand over Saddam Hussein and about 100 other suspects to Iraqi authorities before July 1 if Iraq is ready to take them into custody. U.S. officials denied any decision had been reached.

Patented Signal Handoff Hype, Promise

Patented Signal Handoff Hype, Promise 04/16/2005 06:42 PM

UCSD did a great job getting into the media this week with a fast Wi-Fi handoff technology: SyncScan drops a Wi-Fi adapter or appliance, like a VoWLAN phone, out of its associated mode for a few milliseconds at a regular, defined interval to check on signal strength. This avoids adapters swapping to a new AP only when signal strength becomes unusable or nearly so.

SyncScan relies on a feature in Atheros's chipsets that's available from the open-source madwifi drivers; it's the same sort of feature (if not the identical one) that allows Atheros's WLAN switch partners to offer RF monitoring on the same APs that are also handling client data interchange.

Two problems with SyncScan's approach: first, it requires firmware to be installed on the access point, which is fine for experimentation and open-source projects, but otherwise needs signoff from major firmware developers and their manufacturing partners; second, it's got that patent-pending label attached, which always has the caveat of causing resistance until fees are revealed.

SyncScan puts all APs within listening range of each other into a synchronized beaconing mode so that the "I'm alive" signals happen at fixed intervals. This allows adapters to only listen at discrete periods and to get a clear idea of precisely what's happening in the local RF space. But this coordination adds overhead and there has to be a cost to synchronization and the inevitable resynchronization.

One of the IEEE 802.11 groups, 802.11f, was dedicated to fast reassociation through preauthentication--tokens exchanged among APs at Layer 3--but that doesn't help with fast reassociation on an RF level, or Layer 1.

Sloppy Handoff Costs U.S. 400 Relay Team
(AP)

Sloppy Handoff Costs U.S. 400 Relay Team
(AP) 08/28/2004 03:05 PM
AP - Maurice Greene took the baton and accelerated toward the finish. He quickly shook a Nigerian and started reeling in Britain's Mark Lewis-Francis. But even the self-proclaimed greatest sprinter of all time could not make up for a sloppy handoff earlier in the race Saturday, and the Americans were forced to settle for silver by an excruciating hundredth of a second.

Bremer: Iraq Power Handoff Remains Firm
(AP)

Bremer: Iraq Power Handoff Remains Firm
(AP) 02/19/2004 07:39 PM
AP - U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer insisted Thursday that the United States will hand power to Iraqis by June 30 and won support from the United Nations for moving ahead without immediate elections. The favored U.S. option is to expand the existing 25-member Iraqi Governing Council.

VodaFone, BT Pairs Bluetooth to Cell
Phone for Handoff

VodaFone, BT Pairs Bluetooth to Cell
Phone for Handoff 05/20/2004 06:59 PM
British Telecom will deploy a Vodafone handset that switches from cellular to a local broadband connection at homes, offices: Project Bluephone would ostensibly use Bluetooth to handle the cell to broadband swapover when within the range of a local base station, and then transmit voice over that connection out to BT. Details are a little hazy about how well this will work in homes: Bluetooth typically runs at its 1 Mbps speed only within 30 to 100 feet, even with the more powerful flavor of Bluetooth. [via Engadget]...

Marines Plan Handoff To Militia in
Fallujah (washingtonpost.com)

Marines Plan Handoff To Militia in
Fallujah (washingtonpost.com) 04/29/2004 09:58 PM
washingtonpost.com - FALLUJAH, Iraq, April 29 -- U.S. Marines will withdraw from this violence-wracked city and hand over responsibility for pursuing insurgents to a new militia headed by former Iraqi army officers under a deal brokered by the top Marine general in Iraq, military officials here said Thursday. In Washington, senior Pentagon officials insisted a final agreement had not yet been reached, but Marine commanders here said they had received orders to prepare for a pullout that would begin Friday.

Specification Launched for Cell
Phone/WLAN Handoff (NewsFactor)

Specification Launched for Cell
Phone/WLAN Handoff (NewsFactor) 09/08/2004 02:27 PM
NewsFactor - A group of 14 wireless operators, handset manufacturers and infrastructure vendors have published a proposed specification that the companies claim will enable mobile devices to seamlessly transition between cellular and wireless data networks.

Wi-Fi-to-Cellular Roaming Still on Hold

Wi-Fi-to-Cellular Roaming Still on Hold 08/30/2004 06:31 AM
Phones and services that will allow users to roam between Wi-Fi and cellular networks are still on hold, in spite of a joint plan by Motorola, Avaya and Proxim to offer a converged wireless device and the infrastructure to support it by year's end.

Wi-Fi to Cellular Roaming Stalled

Wi-Fi to Cellular Roaming Stalled 08/30/2004 09:56 AM

eWeek has an interesting article talking about the hurdles the new VoIP Wi-Fi and cellular-switching phones may have penetrating the market. Even though companies like Motorola are developing systems that allow cellphones to switch seamlessly to Wi-Fi, the thought is that the savings provided to corporate infrastructure might be moot as cellular rates continue to drop. Of course, the people who really want this service are regular consumers like you and me, even though we are probably going to be the last people to get it (it may be more realistic to cheer on Verizon and other carriers to offer high-speed cellular networks like EV-DO and EDGE).

But interestingly, hospitals may be the earliest adopters of the Wi-Fi/cellular switching phones, specifically because of the dangers cellular radios can cause to sensitive medical equipment. If the phones switch to Wi-Fi, they can control the power levels to be weaker and (presumably) safer.

Read - Wi-Fi-to-Cellular Roaming Still on Hold [eWeek (Yahoo)]

Fast Roaming Standard

Fast Roaming Standard 01/26/2004 01:57 PM
I wrote a short article for Infoworld about the proposal for a fast roaming task group: If the IEEE approves the request, which most involved think it will, a new standard will be hammered out to speed up hand-off. The current mechanism for hand-off in the 802.11 specification isn't fast enough to support voice calls or other multimedia applications. Today vendors have their own proprietary ways to speed up roaming but they hope to come up with a standard way to do it. Contrary to some earlier reports, Cisco told me that they are supportive of the effort. If the standard ends up being very different from the way Cisco currently handles roaming now, the company will support both the standard and its own technology. Hopefully the standards process will create an efficient and fast way to do hand-off. While writing a different story for Infoworld about voice over WLANs, I found that most of the proprietary ways to support fast hand-off weren,t totally ideal. An improved hand-off mechanism may encourage more voice over WLAN implementations....

Samba 3.x swat preauthentication buffer
overflow

Samba 3.x swat preauthentication buffer
overflow 07/22/2004 04:42 PM
Evgeny Demidov (Jul 22 2004)

look out, calypso

look out, calypso 06/03/2004 06:55 PM
Dude! This is too cool!

Tomorrow, I have an audition to do voicework for Twisted Metal: World Tour!

I've played so much Twisted Metal over the years that if I hear Rob Zombie in the car, I have to change the station, or I may get a little . . . aggressive.

This would be like a Trekkie getting to work on TNG, or me getting to work on Family Guy or Futurama.

Calypso Wi-Fi Challenges 3G

Calypso Wi-Fi Challenges 3G 12/03/2003 06:24 AM
3G Dec 3 2003 4:46AM ET

CALYPSO: An Addictive New Game

CALYPSO: An Addictive New Game 10/30/2003 11:48 PM

GNOME BluePhone

GNOME BluePhone 04/11/2004 07:42 PM
BluePhone Development

BT gets the Bluephone blues

BT gets the Bluephone blues 04/08/2005 10:08 AM
Presses ahead with 'dud' project

VoWLAN Study Group?

VoWLAN Study Group? 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
Voice over WLAN vendors have asked the IEEE to start a VoWLAN-specific study group: Currently, aspects of 802.11 related to the needs of VoWLAN are broken out in 802.11e (quality of service or packet prioritization and scheduling), 802.11f (inter-access point communication, which includes fast handoff of authenticated users), and 802.11i (encryption). Voice calls need very fast handoff as users roam, and the current standards are apparently not focused specifically enough for some vendors. As expected, Cisco has its own proprietary plans, yadda yadda yadda....

BT's Bluephone must be convergence
without the con

BT's Bluephone must be convergence
without the con 04/06/2005 06:23 PM
ZDNet Apr 6 2005 9:15PM GMT

VoWLAN: Coming Soon To A Handset Near
You

VoWLAN: Coming Soon To A Handset Near
You 06/09/2004 02:13 PM
“Handsets that combine cellular access with voice-over-WLAN (VoWLAN) will be adopted more quickly than many — including wireless carriers — believe, according to a study released Monday by In-Stat/MDR.”

Calypso Starts Chasing Patent Infringers

Calypso Starts Chasing Patent Infringers 03/06/2004 01:49 AM
Calypso, which recently was awarded a patent on technology than enables roaming between Wi-Fi and cellular networks, named vendors that it says infringe on the patent: The company said that that patent would have major implications on the way Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia do business. The press release also said that companies that don't want to license the technology right now but plan eventually to make devices that roam between networks will have to obtain rights from Calypso but doesn't explain why that's so. I've asked leaders of a few companies such as Radioframe and Bridgeport--both are working on roaming between cellular and Wi-Fi networks--for their take on the Calypso patent and neither was interested in commenting. I had a similar experience when looking for comment on the patent for redirect that Nomadix received recently. However, this story quotes the CTO of Birdstep as saying that its technology, which enables roaming between the networks, doesn't interfere with the Calypso patent. Perhaps that means that companies may be able to get around having to license from Calypso. On a side note, parts of Calypso's Web site are pretty amusing. On the company history page, I found this statement: "Calypso stunned the telecommunication industry when it introduced the world's first and only mobile video phone…" That's interesting as I'm not sure I recall that happening nor have I heard of any operator selling the product. I wouldn't call that "stunning" the industry....

Telesym Podcast: the Future of VoWLAN

Telesym Podcast: the Future of VoWLAN 03/14/2005 05:47 PM
If you're interested in where Voice over IP over WLAN is heading in the enterprise, listen to this interview with Telesym: I met over in Bellevue, Wash., today with Telesym, a firm that extends an enterprise-based phone exchange (PBX) system into laptops, handhelds, and "scanners": bar-code devices used in retail and logistics by store and floor personnel. I spoke with Mike Houston, Telesym's director of Marketing, Ken Myer, senior VP of sales and marketing, and Jennifer Gehrt, a founding partner at Communiqué Public Relations about Telesym's position in the market, but more largely about the future of VoWLAN. (Ken had to leave for a meeting, so I spoke primarily with Mike in this podcast). You'll hear at the outset of the recording after my introduction a conversation we had using Telesym technology: I was on a USB headset connected to a Telesym client running under Mac OS X; Mike was on a cellular phone. I had the recorder up to the headphone on the headset; next time, I'll plug the recorder into the line out on the laptop to better demonstrate the quality. The audio file is available as an 8 MB MP3 download, a 6 MB MP3 compressed with ZIP, or your podcast-capable news reader should already have identified it....

Netopia to Certify VoWLAN Phones

Netopia to Certify VoWLAN Phones 01/23/2004 04:14 PM
Netopia said it has created a voice over Wi-Fi phone certification program: The program will certify that voice over Wi-Fi phones interoperate with Netopia's VoIP gateways. This is fine for Netopia, but doesn't guarantee that such phones will interoperate with gateways from any VoIP gateway. The CNET reporter who wrote this article could afford to think a bit more critically rather than buying hook, line, and sinker everything companies tell her. The story reads like an advertisement for voice over Wi-Fi. She says here: "Some experts predict that cordless Wi-Fi phones could eventually replace cellular phones." I'd love to know who those experts are. Wi-Fi is a local area networking technology and it's ridiculous to imagine that it would ever cover the same amount of area as a cell phone network....

Calling a BT Bluephone could cost you
dear

Calling a BT Bluephone could cost you
dear 06/24/2004 09:56 AM
Telco undecided on tariff charges

New Twist on Combined Wi-Fi/Cellular

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