Intel is throwing its financial, technical and lobbying weight behind the rising tide of municipally run broadband wireless networks, seeing these as a way to stimulate uptake of Wi-Fi and WiMAX and so sell more of its chips and increase its influence over the communications world. Via [theregister.co.uk]… Continue Reading
Daily Archives: August 18, 2005
Boulder Gets Solar-Powered Wi-Fi
Things have suddenly gotten very busy at Lumin Innovative Products in Boulder, Colorado. On July 15th, 18 months after the company formed around co-founder Ben Adams’s concept for solar-powered Wi-Fi networks, Lumin deployed its first access points at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. Since that successful launch, the four-person staff has been deluged with… Continue Reading
Vendor Creates ‘Vehicular Hotspots’ For Cars
Zeewaves Systems Inc., a startup here working with Nvidia Corp. on planar-antenna Wi-Fi designs, has developed a mobile Wi-Fi architecture that can combine vehicular hotspots with such functions as global-positioning system, automatic vehicle location and ZigBee sensor gateways. Zeewaves is offering ConnectStar, a commercial version of the system, and has defined an extended architecture for… Continue Reading
Mesh Wi-Fi Company Gets $10 Million New VC Money
PacketHop Inc., a company that helps create wireless networks on the fly, has received $10 million in its third round of venture capital funding from investors. Via [sanjose.bizjournals.com]… Continue Reading