Source: ZDNET
Some 128 bidders, including television broadcasters and money manager Mario Gabelli, have qualified to participate in the June 19 auction of 758 wireless licenses covering rural areas, the Federal Communications Commission said on Monday.
Source: Hankooki
Korea Network Information Center (KRNIC) has announced plans for a new type of Internet access platform for mobile phone users.
Called the wireless number connection method to content (WINC), the new platform will promote wireless Internet services and be closely tied to user-friendly operating systems, allowing mobile users to log on to Web sites using simple numbers.
Source: GCN
The Navy this month will begin the final tests of a wireless shipboard network that service brass expect will lead to the use of such LANs across the fleet.
The service outfitted a new destroyer, the USS Howard, with a wireless LAN for this last evaluation leg of its SmartShip program. Forty wireless gateways from 3e Technologies International Inc. of Rockville, Md., extend Ethernet connectivity from the Howard’s asynchronous transfer mode backbone.
Source: WIRE|ESS
LAS VEGAS—Wireless networking seemed to be everywhere at the NetWorld+Interop technology show at the Las Vegas Convention Center last week. Wireless local area networks were available free to every attendee, several wireless workshops and education tracks dotted the agenda and a special area was set aside for Wi-Fi vendors to show off their latest and greatest.
Source: MSNBC
Pete Shipley’s dimly lit Berkeley home has all the earmarks of a geek lair: scattered viscera of discarded computer systems, exotic pieces of electronic-surveillance equipment and videos of the BBC sci-fi “Red Dwarf” show. But among the hacker community, Shipley, a 36-year-old freelance security consultant, is best known for his excursions outside the home—as a pioneer of “war driving.”
Source: Network Computing
When reports began circulating in mid-2001 that researchers had found the IEEE 802.11 WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) security system was vulnerable to attack, the news cooled an extremely hot wireless LAN market. Wireless technology's performance, interoperability and manageability continued to improve, while security loomed as an insurmountable hurdle.
Source: CNN
Gary Oglesby thought it was odd that his wireless network at WorldCom Inc. got unusually congested early each morning and again just after quitting time.
Turns out a security gate at a parking lot just outside his group's offices shared the network's frequency. To reduce interference, Oglesby had to move an antenna away from the window.
As more people go wireless to access the Internet, it is only a matter of time before these kinds of conflicts abound.
Source: Independent Co.
Fumbling in the top pocket of his jacket, Peter Erskine pulls out a sleek, silver electronic gadget.
The chief executive of mobile operator mmO2 slides open the cover and the device emits a strange set of sounds; not the usual electro bleep-bleep, more like chords played on a glockenspiel.
"I know it's a bit childish," he says with a grin. The screen of this new age mobile phone then lights up in full colour and he proceeds to scroll through a plethora of menus.
Source: Wireless Week
Source: PC MAGAZINE
