MuniWireless

Cablevision has launched its Wi-Fi service in various parts of Long Island, but it is available only to customers of Optimum Online. The cable company has set up several Wi-Fi hotzones (they call them community zones) including Long Island Railroad station platforms and parking lots, using equipment from BelAir Networks. It’s unfortunate that non-Optimum Online customers cannot even buy access to use the network, so in my view, it’s not really useful except to people who have Cablevision Optimum Online.…

NebuAd, the company accused of wiretapping, forgery and browser hijacking by a Free Press report, has just lost their CEO, Robert Dykes. Sources report that the company has also laid off a significant number of employees. What happened to NebuAd? I remember them a year or so ago at one of my conferences — they had a booth and the promise of their software was quite innocent: they wanted to help ISPs deliver better targeted advertising, more relevant, less intrusive.…

Wired reports today that iPhone users have been reporting a lot of outages of AT&T’s data service in places such as Boston, Chicago, Washington DC and St. Louis.

Meanwhile, a retired Chicken of the Sea executive has filed a lawsuit against AT&T and Apple alleging the carrier and device maker misrepresented the performance of the 3G iPhone on AT&T’s 3G network (too slow, often gets bumped down to an EDGE network). He claims there are too many people on the network…

Judy Estrin, former Chief Technology Officer of Cisco and an entrepreneur who started several tech companies, gives a video interview on why the US is losing its edge in tech and many other fields. Estrin has just published a book entitled “Closing the Innovation Gap” where she focuses not just on tech companies, but also on climate change and dependence on oil. She says: Our short-sightedness has led to major challenges — dependence on oil, climate change, health care, and…