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- snippets from Glenn Flieshman's ( 80211b News) notes on the 802.11 Planet conference Shipments of Wireless LAN adapters are growing enormously, but we're already at 10 million total (about 2.5 million of which ship with PCs), and Champness thinks that 10M understates by excluding handhelds and a number of other embedded devices. |
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Cometa (Dec 06 2002 15:11 GMT) - Project Rainbow Unveiled.... As was rumored yesterday, the major participants behind the secretive "something to do with Wi-Fi" Project Rainbow have finally announced their plans. What is Project Rainbow? It's a me-too Wi-Fi hotspot company named Cometa. It sounds just like all the previous attempts at building Wi-Fi hotspot networks. |
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- Ad Hoc Communities. People joke about the device in Japan that apparently will beep if a member of the opposite sex and similar interests (and the same device) is nearby in a crowd. Now, it seems that a professor is trying to take that idea to it's logical conclusion, when everyone has some sort of wearable wirelessly connected computer that is always making connections with all the people near you to see if there are any interesting connections. Want to sell your car? In addition to listing it on eBay and putting a sign in the window, you could put it in your wearable device as well - and if someone walking by you, happens to be looking for a used car - the system will alert both of you to the possibility. |
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