WiFi In Europe
Matt Gould at Megabeam dropped ma a note to remind me that WiFi is not an American thing. Megabeam is building a pan-European wireless hotspot network targeting business travelers at airports, hotels, train stations, and convention centers. Hotspots are up and running in both Milan and Rome airports and in key European business centers including […]
Internet2 Virtual Briefing
There will be an Internet2 “Virtual Briefing”, entitled “New Networks, Old Economy,” on Friday, September 13, 2002, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST. Presenters will discuss approaches for building advanced networks in a telecommunications environment that some believe is reverting to the models of the “Old Economy”. The speakers will bring their various perspectives to an exploration of the […]
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.
