Archive | September, 2008

Cablevision launches Long Island Wi-Fi service

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 [...]

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A cold lonely summer for NebuAd

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 [...]

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iPhone woes: Apple and AT&T sued, 3G network inadequate for data use

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 [...]

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Why the US is losing its lead in innovation and excellence, not just in tech

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 [...]

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Obama’s tech team filled with net neutrality advocates

Last week I posted an article about the ubiquitous presence (and sponsor support) of AT&T at the Democratic Convention so I wondered whether an Obama administration would really push for net neutrality. Several people pointed out that Barack Obama has always been a proponent of net neutrality and is well aware of the lack of [...]

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Unbundling of broadband access still growing in France

ARCEP, the French regulator (equivalent to the FCC in the US) released a report which revealed that the number of fixed broadband access lines reached 16.7 million households in the country, up 18% from last year. In the last quarter, only 450,000 new subscribers were registered: “This confirms a slight slowdown in growth since the [...]

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IEEE approves 802.11r standard for roaming between Wi-Fi devices

The IEEE has approved the 802.11r standard that allows Wi-Fi devices to roam between Wi-Fi access points with a delay of less than 50 milliseconds during the handoff. Handoffs are already supported by the 802.11 a, b and g standards but only for data, not for voice or video. So if you are walking down [...]

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