Wi-Fi and Real Estate
The question of Wi-Fi and real estate is about to come to a head, at Boston's Logan Airport. (Picture from MIT.) Declan McCullagh reports that the Airport is trying to close Continental Air's free WiFi...
View ArticleIntel Fights the Power
Intel holds the telecommunications balance of power in its hand. Here's how The Register puts it, with its usual hyperbole: Intel is throwing its financial, technical and lobbying weight behind the...
View ArticleHalfway Through the Decade of Wireless
Every decade of computing technology can be summarized fairly simply. (That's an Apple ad to the right.) The 1950s were the decade of the computer. The 1960s were the decade of the mini-computer. The...
View ArticleTrust and the Network Boundary
The movement of network boundaries ties together all the trends of the present time. By the network boundary I mean the point where your client, which you control, ends and a network which is beyond...
View ArticleThe Best Way to Kill Technology
The best way to kill a promising technology is to argue about it in standards bodies. That's why UltraWideBand hasn't come to market yet. The technology works, but there are two ways to implement it....
View ArticleMesh Era Finally Arrives
The mesh networking era is finally here, according to InStat. A mesh, in which all devices on a network are connected to all other devices, finally has a hockey-stick chart. InStat's new report has...
View ArticleAre These WiFi Concessions Necessary?
Deals like the Philadelphia tie-in with Earthlink, and San Francisco's pending WiFi concession, leave me asking a tough question. Are these deals really necessary? My friend Glenn Fleishman points out...
View ArticleGive Me Hotzones or Give Me Death
There's a lot of hyperbole there. (Patrick Henry, right, was nothing if not hyperbolic.) But the fact is that the tools and technologies needed to create a "hot zone" -- an area that can get 802.11...
View ArticleGetting to Cellular Always-On
The folks at ABI Research have an interesting report examining how application developers might create Always-On applications using cellular. It's not good. The "problem" is that an Always-On data...
View ArticleUniversal Mobile Phones Coming Soon
There are cell phones, there are WiFi phones, there are cordless phones, and there are VOIP phones. But never the twain shall meet. Now a universal wireless phone has come a big step closer, with news...
View ArticleWhat The World of Always On Needs Now
The International Telecommunications Union has released a full report on what I've been calling The World of Always On, which they call The Internet of Things. The report correctly identifies the...
View ArticleThe Platform Challenge
America's biggest tech companies are focused today on the problem of creating, not technologies, but platforms. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Intel and Microsoft and Cisco all rose to...
View ArticleBig Boost to Medical Always On
The Always On medical market won a big endorsement today from a San Francisco research house, FocalPoint Group, which advised hospitals that the technology is ready to lower costs and improve care. The...
View ArticleIs Otellini Changing Intel Quickly Enough?
When Paul Otellini was named the CEO of Intel last year, he promised major changes. As the first non-engineer to rise to the top at the chipmaker, he said he would push platforms, and communications,...
View ArticleThe Video Fiction
Video is NOT the future of the Web. (This picture, by the way, comes from a fine student project at the University of North Carolina on Webcasting rights. Go Tar Heels.) It’s part of the future, no...
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