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RSS wi fiYahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side weird uses for an iPod hard drive disasters In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo! has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the internet company's... [10 Jul 2008]
An Experimental Study of Localization Using Wireless Ethernet
White Paper This paper studies the use of wireless Ethernet (Wi-Fi) as a localization sensor for mobile robots. Wi-Fi-based localization relies on the existence of one or more Wi-Fi devices in the environment to act as beacons, and uses signal strength... [10 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design
Comment Written on the flight back to London and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in the lounge at Heathrow later the same day. We all know it when we see it and we can get irritated when it's absent. Good design is one of those abstract things that are... [09 Jul 2008]
EU law to end file-sharers time online?
News A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side weird uses for an iPod hard drive disasters A set of telecommunications laws has been given the green light by a European parliamentary committee, which includes amendments that some argue could lead... [09 Jul 2008]
Prison tech: Mobiles blocked and bodies scanned
News W is for Wi-fi Mobile phone use will be blocked and Bodily Orifice Security Scanner (Boss) chairs will be fitted throughout non-high security prisons from March 2009. The technological measures were announced by the government on the back of a... [08 Jul 2008]
Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors
Photo After squinting and peering hopelessly through years of screen grime, and finally resorting to moving desks to gain shade from a nearby tree, I'm eventually up and running, and connected to the wi-fi. [08 Jul 2008]
Intel's Atom cracks into PC World
News It has a gigabyte of RAM, a built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam and Bluetooth and wi-fi connectivity. The UK computer-store chain PC World is claiming to be the first retail outlet in the country to offer a netbook using Intel's Atom processor. [08 Jul 2008]
Microsoft warns of ActiveX attack targetting Access
News W is for Wi-fi An attacker would have to lure a victim, via a link in an email for example, to a specially crafted web page that could exploit the security hole to allow remote code execution. This would provide the attacker with as much access to... [08 Jul 2008]
Data centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side weird uses for an iPod hard drive disasters Nine out of 10 organisations that have adopted virtualisation technologies have done so to reduce data centre costs, according to research from IDC. [08 Jul 2008]
Parking Meter Company Creates New Business Model With Wi-Fi
White Paper The company deployed a Cisco Outdoor Wireless Solution which provides wireless data connectivity to municipal parking meters, Wi-Fi technology provides sufficient bandwidth for wireless transmission of license plate photos, multiple channels that... [08 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side weird uses for an iPod hard drive disasters silicon.com is 10 this week. That's a grand old age for a publication launched at the height of the dot-com madness, says Julian Goldsmith. [07 Jul 2008]
Happy 10th birthday, silicon.com
News A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side weird uses for an iPod hard drive disasters Happy birthday, silicon.com - your favourite business and technology publication is 10 years old. Launched back on 6 July 1998 with a party at London's... [07 Jul 2008]
ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers
News W is for Wi-fi The British Air Transport Association (Bata) said aviation workers were being used as guinea pigs for the scheme. ID cards for 'airside' workers - those who work beyond airport security checks - will become compulsory in 2009. [07 Jul 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Security Matters: Security for Wireless Networks (Level 300)
White Paper The presenter discusses the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.x networking standards and the differences between Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP), Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), and Wired Equivalent... [06 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone to storm enterprise world, says O2
News The iPhone 2.0 comes with a software update that not only includes enterprise-friendly licensing of Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol - for push email, calendar and contacts - but also supports Cisco IPSec VPN for secure transmission of data, and... [04 Jul 2008]
