NewburyOpen.net Puts WiFi On The Road
The latest addition to NewburyOpen.net is that they have made a “mobile” version of their wireless node that sits on top of one of their cars. They plan to park it next to various places every Sunday and provide free wireless Internet service in new locations every week. For their first day out it happens […]
Newbury Surfing
The momentum is building to create community area networks everywhere! My first taste of this was during Subway Surfing and now it seems that each week I learn of something new. NewburyOpen.net — on Newbury Street in Boston — provides free high-speed WiFi Internet connections for Bostoners and travelers away from work or home — […]
A Statistical Approach To Spam
Thanks to David Singer, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Internet Technology at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California for telling me about a very interesting approach to reducing spam. It uses a statistical model and sounds like it could be quite effective. There is a spam conference in Cambridge, MA, in January 2003.
eSuds
Reuters reported that IBM is rolling out new technology that may be powerful enough to stop college students from bringing laundry home to mom and dad for the weekend. The system is called eSuds and it was developed by IBM and USA Technologies. Instead of the usual chasing all over to find quarters, this new […]
Ocean City Surfing
I arrived in Ocean City, New Jersey for a visit with some family on Wednesday night. After dinner it was time to check some email and things on the web so I got out my RJ-11 phone cable and plugged it into the phone jack in the wall. Then it occurred to me to try […]