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Fun with wireless networks
January 8, 2008 By Danny Bradbury
Categories: Security Wireless
Most tech-heads will know what an SSID is. It’s the public identity of a wireless network that broadcasts itself to the public. You’ll see them in airports and coffee shops all the time. Spark up your laptop and you’ll find “Starbucks wireless”, or “Chicago Airport Public WiFi”, or “Boingo Hotspot”,...
United Nations Meeting Gives Mobile Service Providers More Bandwidth
November 28, 2007 By Charlie Bess
Categories: Wireless
A UN telecoms meeting decided to give mobile service providers access to bandwidth currently reserved for terrestrial television broadcasts, offering the promise of high-speed Internet access on-the-move anywhere in the world by 2015.
The decision will give manufacturers of wireless equipment...
Saskatchewan! Connected free Wi-Fi network zooms past Toronto
August 7, 2007 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: Canadian Technology Associations Wireless
Cisco and the Government of Saskatchewan announced in July that the citizens of Saskatoon, Regina, Prince Albert and Moose Jaw now have free Wi-Fi access throughout most of the downtown cores.
The rollout puts these cities more than a year behind Toronto’s One Zone implementation, but Saskatchewan...
Drive a car? Read this post
June 28, 2007 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: Wireless
If you drive a car, contact your city’s parking authority and tell them you want to see PhotoViolationMeter meters on your streets. While normally parking meters rank about the same as vinyl flooring, lawn rakes and tea kettles on The Big Scale of Exciting Innovations, these new units from Photo...
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Creative Zen Stone Plus with Speaker
This MP3 player has a lot of features: 500-song capacity, 20-hour battery, an alarm clock, FM radio, voice recorder, stopwatch and—rare in an MP3 player—a built-in speaker. And it packs all that in a tiny space: check out the paperclip in the photo.
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