Always On — almost: part 2
Nothing like being at Washington National Airport on a Friday afternoon waiting for a flight. I have to admit that having the Sprint PCS CDMA card in my ThinkPad makes it more bearable. WiFi will be everywhere but it isn’t yet. Dial-up is hardly an acceptable alternative. Sprint’s “3G” service *is* a good alternative (see […]
Spam Fighting Technologies
SPAMfighter is a small tool that you can easily install on your computer. Whenever new mail arrives, it will automatically be tested by the SPAMfighter server and if it’s spam, it will be moved to your spam folder. Cloudmark is a company that stops spam before it costs you money. Cloudmark’s groundbreaking, peer-to-peer (P2P) solution […]
Will Wi-Fi Fly?
The cover story in Barron’s this week was entitled “Will Wi-Fi Fly?“. The sub-title was “Wireless networks are proliferating, but making money will be tricky”. Eric Savitz did a really good job covering WiFi in a very comprehensive way. I enjoyed discussing my views with him and he quoted me several times in his story. First […]
WiFi – Update No. 8 (The Big Picture, “Wider-Fi”, 802.everything, Manhattan WiFi, etc.)
The Big Picture Where is WiFi headed? I don’t claim to have a crystal ball but I believe the evolution looks very much like what we have seen before with the Internet and the World Wide Web. There was a long list of reasons ten years ago for why the Web would never turn into […]
WiFi – Update No. 8 (coming)
WiFi Update No. 8 will be posted in the morning. I just finished it but it needs a spell-check and some editing. WiFi Update No. 8
