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
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 […]