WiFi Extending Its Reach

After enjoying the use of high speed Internet connectivity at the Admiral’s Club, Starbucks, or maybe the local Subway sandwich shop, it is very easy to get spoiled. The more often we find connectivity, the more we expect it at other places. Fortunately, innovation is alive and well in the WiFi space. Two recent developments […]

Making Progress Converting Photo Galleries

The Photo Gallery was part of ibm.com from 1995 until 2002 when I merged it with patrickWeb. It has been a great way to share pictures from around the world with my friends and colleagues. The original gallery was fairly crude but then Dipen Mehta, of the IBM webAhead team, made a native Domino gallery. The good news was […]

WiFi On Steroids

You will find quite a few postings here on patrickWeb about WiFi. My enthusiasm continues to grow as WiFi continues to gain momentum. The technical name for WiFI is 802.11b. That is the standard from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, of which I am proud to be a senior member). 802.11b will […]

WiFi in Europe – part 2

It wasn’t my plan for the blog to be a WiFi blog — there are so many other things to write about in the world of Internet Technology. However, my enthusiasm for WiFi grows each day as I hear from readers. Anders Jacobsen, a Norwegian subscriber to my weblog’s RSS newsfeed, sent me some additional […]

WiFi Evolution — It’s In The Chips

C|NET ran a story called, “Wi-Fi to climb aboard modems“, that describes how Wi-Fi chips for wireless home networks will seeon become integrated with broadband modems. Communications chipmaker Conexant Systems announced Tuesday that it is adding Intersil Wi-Fi chips to the semiconductors it builds for high-speed cable or DSL modems. This is clearly the next step […]