An article in Comm Times on the work being done by chip companies toensure interoperability and seamless handoff between RF and 802.11 chipsets
Steve DeWitt quits Sun, Vivek Mehra becomes VP and GM of Cobalt Group
Part of the wake of Zander's retirement announcement, theRegister zooms in on Sun's Linux strategy. Good news for Vivek, he's a good guy.
Joltage Networks Names Nicholas Negroponte to Board
From VentureWire:
NEW YORK -- Joltage, which provides Wi-Fi software to businesses such as cafes or health clubs that then offer wireless Internet access to their customers, said it appointed new investor Nicholas Negroponte to its board of directors.
Read the full story.
Woodside Networks completes their Series B
>From The Daily Deal:
Wireless networking systems developer Woodside Networks Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif. said Tuesday that it has raised an additional $4 million from Nokia Venture Partners, following a $20 million second round of funding announced in February. The venture firm joins Sevin Rosen Funds and Accel Partners as backers of Woodside Networks, which has raised $32 million to date. A developer of wireless local area networks, Woodside Networks maintains an office in Breukelen, The Netherlands, in addition to its headquarters in Palo Alto.
Test of Blogit
Test of the new email-to-blog script I just wrote, calledblogit.
Alan Reiter notes Glenn's Blog on us
Alan Reiter wrote about us again in hisblog today:
Sputnik info: Yesterday I wrote, very briefly, about Sputnik. If you want to learn more about Sputnik, check out Glenn Fleishman's 802.11b Networking News entry about Sputnik. Glenn says: "Based on what I've seen, they may set a new high-water mark for creating configuration tools that work, and that average human beings can understand."
Mesh Networks to offer software-based 802.11 repeater?
Hmmm, interesting. According to Alan Reiter'sweblog which he's been updating from the Technologic Partners Conference, Mesh Networks is beta testing a low-cost repeater-router for extending the range of 802.11. Basically, the MeshNetworks software creates a, well, mesh network, for your existing WiFi system.
Hmmm, I wonder if this is possible without breaking the 802.11 standard - In other words, I can see you turning a PC into a black-box repeater, but I don't see how they could turn it into a repeater AND still allow you to use the box as a wireless node on the network. Perhaps I'm missing something, or perhaps we will all need to download some client software (that'll be windoze only, of course). Still, it is an intriguing idea - they are looking at an embedded product with MSRP of $60.
Actually, as I read Reiter's post more carefully (pardon me, I still haven't had my morning coffee), it looks like Mesh Networks is trying to do something like what we've done - turn a PC with broadband connectivity and a WiFi card into a Mesh Networks AP. Well, if that's the case, just go and download our code, it's free and available today...
Something to keep an eye on.
Ed Zander announces retirement
Hmm, Sun is losing lots of execs lately.
A test of email-enabled links
So have a look at this link to slashdot.
Cool, email-to-blog interfaced
OK, I'm going to try to update this blog more often by using the newBlogger Pro email-to-blog interface. Shit, I send out so many tidbit emails a day, sending it to a blog should actually make my site more current, and not interfere with my favorite way of e-interaction, email.