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
Knovel
When I entered engineering school almost forty years ago (is that possible?), I used a slide rule and engineering reference manuals. I think of that as the first of three generations of using engineering and scientific data. The second generation was web-based data with PC’s for standalone and separate analysis. Knovel Corporation (pronouced nah-vil) has […]
Yonkers
Today was a day in New York, and with 6-12 inches in the forecast, I thought travel would be difficult. The train to Grand Central Station was right on time. A short walk to Madison Avenue and I was at Space Holdings – parent of space.com. Lou Dobbs launched space.com in 1999 and I was […]
WiFi – Update No. 7
I have been writing quite a bit about WiFi — as you know. It is clearly on my list of “the next big things”. Recently I spent some time talking with Matthew Miller, Special Projects Editor at EDN and CommVerge which is part of the Reed Electronics Group.The title of Matthew’s story is “Wave propagation” […]
Truck Stop WiFi
Three million truckers in America will now have wireless Internet access at 1,000 Truck Stops. In a press release earlier this week, IBM and Rocksteady Networks announced that the companies will provide the infrastructure for Columbia Advanced Wireless (CAW) to enable broadband wireless Internet access at truck stops throughout the country.The Rocksteady software will run […]
