Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on February 28, 2007
Ithaca College has announced its second annual student cell phone film competition, the CellFlix Festival, which focuses on 30-second films shot on cell phones. This year's prizes include a...
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Filed in archive RFID
by jeff goldman on February 28, 2007
InfoWorld's Paul Roberts reports that, after canceling a planned presentation at the Black Hat DC Briefings & Training event in Arlington, Virginia, Chris Paget of IOActive took the stage...
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Filed in archive RFID
by jeff goldman on February 27, 2007
CNET News' Joris Evers reports that researchers from security firm IOActive have canceled a planned demo of how easy it is to hack an RFID-enabled credit card. "The talk, slated for...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on February 27, 2007
If this is true, it's impressive: Reuters reports that a Pew Internet Project survey has found that one third of U.S. Internet users have gone online using a wireless network, and 20 percent have...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on February 26, 2007
Wi-Fi Networking News' Glenn Fleishman picks up on news from the Alaska Journal that a police officer in Anchorage "seized the laptop of a 21-year-old who was using free Wi-Fi from a library...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on February 26, 2007
A very cool story by Wi-Fi Planet's Gerry Blackwell looks at the way that CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is using Wi-Fi in its experiments to recreate the effects of the...
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The Register's Bill Ray reports that the European Commission has laid down a basic plan of adoption for ultrawideband. "The agreement lays down some restrictions on device capabilities,...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on February 22, 2007
The Register's Lewis Page today picks up on a report in the Vancouver Sun stating that terrorists are believed to be planning attacks in Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympics -- using the...
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by jeff goldman on February 22, 2007
InformationWeek's W. David Gardner reports today that Apple and Cisco have "reached agreement over the rights to use the name iPhone." Apple's iPhone is a mobile phone with Wi-Fi...
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Engadget's Darren Murph today picks up on a Dailywireless.org report noting that the IEEE "has begun working on a new version of the 802.16 [WiMax] standard, dubbed 802.16m." The aim of...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on February 21, 2007
Broadband Reports' Karl Bode today picks up on a Daily Herald story reporting that the Healthy Home Alliance is fighting against a planned citywide Wi-Fi installation by MetroFi in Naperville,...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on February 20, 2007
BusinessWeek's Olga Kharif today looks at Vonage's plans to start offering wireless services during the second half of 2007. "The company also expects to announce new agreements to...
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Filed in archive RFID
by jeff goldman on February 20, 2007
RFID Update reports today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has decided to pull an RFID trial from its U.S. Visitor and Immigration Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program...
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Filed in archive RFID
by jeff goldman on February 20, 2007
HES Magazine looks at Kodak's recent filing of a patent for an RFID tag "that can be attached to a medicine and ingested." Potential uses could include tracking "internal...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on February 19, 2007
The Malaysia Star reports that Telekom Malaysia is switching some of its customers from wired to wireless access, specifically "in some areas of Sarawak that are badly affected by the theft of...
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by jeff goldman on February 19, 2007
Wi-Fi Networking News' Glenn Fleishman has a full review at Macworld of the new 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station -- and he likes it. "I was able to see consistently high speeds in...
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Filed in archive RFID
by jeff goldman on February 17, 2007
The BBC's Caroline Parkinson reports on an RFID trial at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, where patients wear RFID-tagged wristbands that carry full information regarding the care they're...
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by jeff goldman on February 17, 2007
CNET News' Joris Evers reports that Symantec this week announced the results of security research, conducted with the Indiana University School of Informatics, which found that it's possible...
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