Disney World is using wireless technology to provide captioning and translation services so more people can feel a part of what is, after all, a small world. Via [news.com.com]… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: January 2002
Using Xircom Wireless On A College Campus
Have you ever looked out the window on a beautiful, sunny day and thought you’d rather be working under that nice shady tree, instead of sitting there in a stuffy office? As a network specialist with a small, local college and a member of the working group to bring 802.11b Ethernet wireless to our campus,… Continue Reading
Wireless Wrap-up: Carriers Moving To 3G Alternative In 2002
The Wireless Strategies to stimulate the adoption of mobile data among enterprises that were hatched in the boardrooms of major telecommunications carriers in 2001 are likely to take hold in 2002. Via [infoworld.com]… Continue Reading
Boingo Or Splat?
Boingo Wireless has gotten a lot of news lately about their new business venture. They promise one source for access to a number of IEEE 802.11b wireless systems. To fulfill this, they offer a free client from their website which supposedly sports a NetStumbler-like mechanism to find access points, a database of known access points… Continue Reading
Kismet Released
Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic. Via [kismetwireless.net]… Continue Reading
Driveby Hacking On The Go
How did Frank Keeney, a California-based security consultant and war driving convert, spend his recent vacation? With his wife and kids along for the ride, Keeney used a laptop, rigged up in the back of his SUV, to map access points to home and corporate wireless LANs all the way from Pasadena to San Francisco.… Continue Reading
Communal Broadband
Sharing high-speed Internet access via wireless networks is growing in popularity, but some liken it to stealing cable TV. Via [g4techtv.com]… Continue Reading
HP’s 802.11b Products Ship
Hewlett-Packard Company announced several new mobile and wireless products today, including the new HP Pavilion zt1000 notebook PC series with optional embedded 802.11b or Bluetooth wireless capabilities. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]… Continue Reading
802.11b And 3G Synergies For 2002
If 2001 was a year of economic slowdown, retreat from technology and hunkering down, 2002 will be a time of sorting out. Wireless services will seek out new markets, embattled mobile companies will stem a tide of losses and new technologies introduced will begin to flourish — or fail. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]… Continue Reading