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2 Tinkerers Say They've Found a Cheap Way to Broadband
Etherlinx, founded by Layne Holt and John Furrier, hopes to solve the "last-mile" problem with inexpensive wireless networks providing high speed connectivity at distances of 20 miles. (6/10/2002 at The New York Times)
Apache in a Wireless World
Setting up your Apache server to serve content to wireless devices. (9/18/2000 at Web Server Compare)
As Bluetooth Nibbles, Competition Lurks
The wireless industry expects big things from Bluetooth, but 802.11B, a technology already used for wireless networking in Apple's and other manufacturers' computer, has greater range and is already in widespread use. (9/15/2000 at News.com)
Black Hat: Users Warned About Wireless LAN Holes
Experts at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas recommended that corporations using wireless networks use extra authentication systems to keep hackers from compromising a basic security hole in the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). (7/12/2001 at Computer World)
Easy 802.11b Wireless for Small Businesses
How to set up a wireless network, quickly and easily, using Apple's AirPort technology. (2/14/2002 at O'Reilly Network)
Easy Eavesdropping on Wireless Networks
A paper published by researchers at UC Berkeley and Zero-Knowledge Systems points out the inherent flaws of the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance's (WECA) encryption system, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). (2/27/2001 at Business Week)
Getting Into i-Mode
Information on iMode, Japan's popular wireless technology, and how to create pages in cHTML, iMode's markup language. (9/20/2000 at XML.com)
GSM Association: Over 16bn Text Messages Sent Monthly
According to the GSM Association, the number of SMS text messages sent to GSM wireless phones was 1 billion in April 1999; 16 billion per month in early 2001; and should pass 25 billion by December 2001. (5/31/2001 at NUA Internet Surveys)
An Introduction to Lucent's Wavelan Wireless LAN Card
A quick and almost-easy guide to getting your laptops hooked up via a wireless LAN. (11/3/2000 at O'Reilly Network)
Mobile Devices Will Soon Be Useful
Jakob Nielsen reports from the DEMOmobile conference, and is optimistic about the usability of new mobile devices. 802.11 is the preferred networking system, the Danger Device (HipTop) looks promising, and complex car connectivity could be dangerous. (9/16/2001 at UseIt)
Personal Area Network: A Bluetooth Primer
Basic information on how Bluetooth, the in-development short-range radio link technology, is supposed to work. (11/3/2000 at O'Reilly Network)
Setting up Wireless Cards on FreeBSD
The nitty gritty on setting up your FreeBSD box with a wireless card. (4/19/2001 at ONLamp.com)
SMS Relay -- An Idea for Fault-Tolerant Communications
By using every cell phone as a relay point, wireless providers could use peer-to-peer paradigms to create communications networks that would not be brought down by the destruction of the providers' own base stations or heavy network use. (9/28/2001 at O'Reilly Network)
Still Waiting for Bluetooth
Two years after Bluetooth became a wireless networking buzzword, it still hasn't been widely deployed, or built into consumer devices. (4/23/2001 at ZDNet)
Unchaining the Net
Small groups of "free-network" advocates are setting up outdoor wireless networks in Seattle, Washington; Cambridge, Massachussetts; and San Francisco, California. (12/1/2000 at Salon.com)
WAP Forum Moves Toward Net Standards
The WAP Forum says it will approve WAP 2.0, based on XHTML and TCP, by mid-2001; NTT DoCoMo's I-Mode, popular in Japan, is moving in the same direction. (9/14/2000 at InfoWorld)
WAP, Europe's Wireless Dud?
Wireless application protocol (WAP) is not taking off as expected in Europe; connection speeds are too slow, and small wirless devices can't display all the information users want to see. (9/15/2000 at The Washington Post)
WAP: Already a Thing of the Past?
WAP, which once enjoyed unwarranted praise, is now enduring unduly harsh criticism; will it survive? Will people understand it should work in parallel to traditional Internet services, rather than replace them? (9/20/2000 at Intranet Design Magazine)
War Driving by the Bay
Security consultant Peter Shipley, armed with a laptop and an external antenna, plans to map out 802.11 networks throughout the San Francisco Bay Area; the wireless networks provide a hole through the firewalls of the corporations that run them. (4/13/2001 at The Register)
What's Up With WEP?
Security problems with Wired Equivalent Protocol (WEP), how serious the problems are, and how they should be dealt with. (4/26/2001 at IBM)
Wireless Patent Wars Heat up
Geoworks Corporation has counter-sued Phone.com, which earlier challenged Geoworks' patent on "flexible user interface technology," which deals with formatting content for handheld devices. (9/11/2000 at Wired News)
Wireless Spam: How Can It Be Stopped?
U.S. Represenative Rush Holt has introduced legislation banning spam sent to wireless phones; but advertisers and anti-spam activists question the neccesity, given that the wireless industry is "'moving to build spam out' of its infrastructure." (1/10/2001 at ZDNet)
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