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Almost three years ago in 2007, we posted several articles about the Burbank Water & Power utility’s use of Wi-Fi in upgrading its AMR/AMI system. Here are the old articles: Blogging from the 2007 MW conference: Burbank utility’s innovative muni Wi-Fi network Burbank, CA, turns to Wi-Fi for electrical monitoring It appears that BWP has [...]
The Beach Boys are going to hate me for this but I’ve been waiting for years to use that line. I also wanted to title it, “Look Ma, no mesh” but I should have used that one several articles ago. It’s not that I have anything against mesh as there is an application for almost [...]
Just in time for the Monday-after-Thanksgiving shopping spree, Clearwire and Sprint are officially launching their WiMAX wireless broadband services in the Los Angeles area on Monday, Nov. 29, a couple days earlier than previously promised. The companies are also making services available in several other major markets, including Miami and Cleveland, while also confirming that WiMAX services [...]
Juniper Research predicts that revenues from mobile adult content and services will reach $2.8 billion by 2015, driven primarily through video chat and subscription-based services. The increase – from $1.7 billion in 2009 – comes despite the availability of free content, which has so far depressed revenues in Western Europe. Video chat service providers have [...]
In this installment of Tales from the Towers, Rory Conaway dives into the technical details of deploying a large scale municipal Wi-Fi network with explanations on using beam-forming equipment. Based on some of the emails I’m getting, the biggest complaint is not enough details in my articles and without them, it’s difficult to implement the [...]
I don’t know how Steve Jobs gets up every morning to read silly threats like this from lumbering dinosaurs like the European telecom operators who are warning Apple that they will stop subsidizing the iPhone if Apple inserts a SIM card that would allow you to buy an iPhone and sign up for service (choosing [...]
With billions of dollars of public and private smart grid investment in place and billions more in forecasted network hardware and software shipments, will enthusiasm for the smart grid be dampened by security concerns? Current smart meter deployment trends and reported security breaches point towards that possibility. A recent Pike Research report entitled “Smart Grid: 10 Trends to [...]
This week, GE and its partners announced the 12 start-ups, emerging businesses and university ideas selected for investment as well as the five winners of their open innovation challenge. As you recall, GE and several VC firms announced last July the creation of a $200 million fund for smart grid technology. Here are details on [...]
Morgan Stanley analyst, Mary Meeker, made an interesting presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on the latest trends in global Internet use, mobile, media and more. She addressed 9 topics: globality mobile social ecosystems advertising commerce media company leadership evolution Steve Jobs ferocious pace of change in tech Although none of the [...]
The official word from WiMAX partners Clearwire and Sprint is that their 4G services went “live” in the Central Valley nexus of Sacramento today, but the real news is that right here in River City, aka Sidecut’s home town of San Mateo, our loaner 4G modem saw the WiMAX network… but ultimately couldn’t connect. The WiMAX [...]
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