MyGlobalCity - Thur Feb 22, 2007 February 22, 2007
Get Out and Vote!Or at least in Estonia, stay in and vote over the Internet using your chip-embedded national ID card. Officials in that country are expecting 20-40,000 people to do so, out of the nearly one million eligible voters.
WiMax for ChileIntel’s WiMax wireless networking protocol is being deployed in Chile by Alcatel-Lucent, who will build networks for corporate and residential customers in 24 major cities. [Cellular News]
VoIP: Back… in the UAE?VoIP users in the UAE (United Arab Emirates) have been unhappy about the ban imposed on specific VoIP providers. However, recent news suggests that two native …
Travel Agency VoIP Applications June 14, 2006
Consider: You’re planning a trip to Europe and you’re going to be joined there by a friend who will be travelling through Asia ahead of you. How do you sync up with each other without paying exorbitant cell phone or satellite phone costs?
Why, through VoIP and/or Skype, of course. Imagine being able to connect up directly with your friend through your VoIP-enabled phone, right from the travel agency. If you can touch base with your travelling friend, it makes it so much easier to make last-minute travel plans - something that’s still possible with regular mobile phones, but …
Municipal Wi-Fi Setbacks - MobilePro Quits Sacramento Project June 10, 2006
Apparently the city of Sacramento wants to set up a public free Wi-Fi network whose cost is completely supported by advertising. The project was only at the RFP (Request For Proposal) stage and MobilePro, who won the bid to work on it, did not think the city’s demand was feasible. MobilePro is still involved in other municipal Wi-Fi projects around the US.
Other municipalities have been questioning whether municipal Wi-Fi (that is, free) is financially feasible, or whether they should just stick to regular (paid) city-wide Wi-Fi networks. MobilePro’s view suggests that since such networks cannot be fully advertising-supported, …
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Unwired - News About GPS, Wi-Fi, RFID, Bluetooth - Jun-01-2006 June 1, 2006
Here are some summaries related to wireless technologies (GPS, Wi-Fi, RFID, Bluetooth) for Jun 1, 2006:
- Qualcomm recently announced a single chip - the first of its kind - that handles three different mobile TV broadcast standards, including FLO, DVB-H, and ISDB-T [via Wireless IQ] With a growing number of cellular providers offering streaming TV on mobile phones, Qualcomm will have a definite edge over other manufacturers. Qualcomm’s share price has been increasing steadily over the past year, with a few minor dips.
- As small as the circuitry in RFID tags has become, printed circuits open …
Ooh Baby It’s A Wired World May 11, 2006
(With apologies to Cat Stevens). Maybe it’s force of habit, but the title of this post is proof that even when I’m discussing wireless networks, I refer to a “wired” world. In a sense, the wiring is still there, it’s just organized differently. Then again, “unwired” world just doesn’t have the same ring to it. But regardless of what it’s called, no doubt the inhabitants of Iqaluit, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, are more than happy to have their own free city-wide Wi-Fi network.
Nunavut simultaneously joins the growing list of cities and towns offering (or planning to offer) …
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Dealing With Your Cellular Provider’s Downtimes March 21, 2006
I just got off a tech assistance call to my cellular provider, which I initiated when I couldn’t access my email or the web from my new, beloved PalmOne Treo 650. After over a half hour of very pleasant assistance, we got nowhwere. Except that the tech rep admitted to the network being down out in the western provinces in Canada. I said that this must be the problem for me, somehow, as well. She was unwilling to agree and instead pleasantly sent me through configuring, trying, and reconfiguring my Treo’s network settings for a half hour or so.
Now despite …
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The Internet Superhighway Goes On The Rails
Planes, trains, and automobiles. The Internet has been available on airplanes for some time now. It’s only fitting that trains are next. VIA Rail Canada now offers WiFi access on their trains along the Quebec City - Windsor corridor.
For those of us that have been waiting 20 years for the promised high-speed trains along this rail corridor, being able to access the Internet on trains is no substitute. But it also means that we can work while travelling. Which sort of makes up for not being able to get to our destinations quickly.
The first thing that struck me, upon reading …
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