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freshmeat.net announcements (Global)
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Zarafa 6.00 (Default branch) (Feb 29 2008 18:19 GMT) - Zarafa allows you to share Outlook email and calendars, even when you are out of the office, via Outlook, with your PocketPC or through WebAccess. Command line tools are provided to integrate with your existing MTA for email delivery and for user creation/editing. License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial Changes: This release adds support for offline Outlook usage. |
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Simbad el marino (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - Hace muchos, muchísimos años, en la ciudad de Bagdad vivía un joven llamado Simbad. Era muy pobre y, para ganarse la vida, se veía obligado a transportar pesados fardos, por lo que se le conocía como Simbad el Cargador. “¡Pobre de mí! -se lamentaba- ¡qué triste suerte la mía! |
Wi-Fi Networking News
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Wee-Fi: Pittsburgh Downtown-Fi Savior; Wi-Fi Geographies; Skyhook, Locr Team Up (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - Pittsburgh gets free-Fi: The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership found a new provider for its network, one that's agreed to donate service for three years. AspStation has stepped in to replace a provider, US Wireless Online (not to be confused with apparently thriving US Internet in Minneapolis), that filed 2008-10-08 for bankruptcy protection. The new provider will offer two hours of free service a day and a lower, not-yet-determined fee for monthly unlimited usage. AspStation was providing the back-haul for the network already, and took over. |
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Muni Round-Up: Longmont (Colo.) Network Sold; Milpitas (Calif.) Evaluates Post-EarthLink uture (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - Longmont, Colo., network transferred from Kite Networks to Ohio firm DHB Networks: The Longmont City Council gave Kite's contracts to DHB, which gives them access to city-owned fiber and utility poles, and connects them to services DHB can sell the city. Although specifics of the Kite deal weren't noted in this story, I know from Tempe that a lot of what's at stake is leasing agreements; DHB may be taking over leases and making payments current, or may have negotiated a discount so that the leasing firm is getting something instead of a default. |
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Wireless Silicon Valley Pilot Planned: Business, Gov. Services Only (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - New life in Wireless Silicon Valley? The San Jose Mercury News reports that Covad has stepped into the mix of firms that won the contract to build out the vast Wireless Silicon Valley project. The firm will work with Cisco to build a three-month, one-square-mile test network in San Carlos. However, if the test results in a network being built, Covad will focus on business and governmental customers--no consumer public access is planned. A few weeks ago, I predicted the project was completely dead because there was no money, no funding sources, no focus, and the major partners (IBM and Cisco) seemed unwilling to put in their own funds to jumpstart the effort. |
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WPA Enterprise Validation Weakness in Windows Highlighted (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - McAfee researchers show that a common setting for the WPA Enterprise supplicant in Windows leads to credential ownership: I was aware of this problem when WPA Enterprise first started to become available, because some early gateways equipped to handle the port-based authentication protocol (802.1X + WPA, essentially) lacked certificate-authority (CA) signed certificates. What this means is that the operating system and supplicant, which have the root certificates installed to validate the CAs, which in turn validate certificates signed by the CAs, can't provide the out-of-band confirmation that a certificate presented by the authenticator to create a tunneled PEAP or EAP-TTLS session is valid. Got that? |
Wi-Fi Networking News
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Wee-Fi: Toledo-Fi, Bus-Fi, Jack-in-the-Box-Fi, Balloon-Fi, Free Airport-Fi, Clueless-Fi (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - Toledo paper picks up on MetroFi woes: The local paper in Toledo writes about MetroFi's problems in Portland, Ore., and Aurora and Naperville, Ill., and recounts Toledo's history with MetroFi. The Wi-Fi firm originally contracted to build an ad-supported network for the city, but was working on a deal with the mayor's tech head to contract for services worth $2. |
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T-Mobile Ups Ante on Flat-Rate Home Plans: $10 per Month Unlimited (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - T-Mobile rolls out its latest HotSpot@Home offering, Talk Forever Home Service, in Seattle and Dallas: The service, launching in those two markets on 21-Feb-2008, uses a new Linksys router that has two integral RJ11 phone jacks, and accepts SIM cell authentication modules for each line. T-Mobile can port your home numbers to the built-in lines, which also have 911 location information encoded based on your address. The fee is just $10 per line per month for unlimited domestic calls--you can choose one or two lines--and includes all the features found on cell phones, such as Caller ID, 3-way conferencing, call forwarding, and others. The router costs $49 with a two-year commitment, and the service requires a broadband connection. |
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Wee-Fi: Minneapolis Approaches Completion; Gangs of Spain Use Wi-Fi; Tempe Update (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - Minneapolis Wi-Fi network nears completion, but with dead zones: Steve Alexander writes for the Star Tribune that US Internet is nearly done with its city-wide buildout, about four months later than planned, which is a remarkable achievement compared with other city plans, mostly unfinished or never begun. Some "challenge areas" are featured in a map provided by the company that are due to a problem with--wait for it--light poles! Yes, the quotidian strikes again. Alexander writes that 124 poles are troublesome, and the city is working is working with the controlling utility on solving the problem. |
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Starbucks Free Access: Broader Free Access, My Prediction It Would Never Happen (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - Starbucks provided one more bit of clarification about free access related to its stored-value card: I understood last week that Starbucks required a single purchase on a Starbucks Card every 30 days to enable two hours of free service each day. This would cover any stored-value card, including gift cards, but unrelated to their Visa-branded Duetto card. In fact, as a Starbucks spokesperson confirmed to me and my colleague Eric Lai at Computerworld that you either need to make a purchase or put more value on the card. As Lai points out, if you're extremely pecuniary, you could make a purchase every 60 days and put value on the card (a minimum of $5 each time) on alternating 60-day periods. |
Wi-Fi Networking News
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Hotspots: Free or $20 per Month (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - One of my stock lines for the last five years has been: "Hotspots will either be free or cost you $20 per month": I've written that line many times, and told it to many reporters. What I meant by it was that the cost of providing service would approach zero for most smaller venue operators relative to its value; that Wi-Fi would be an expected amenity, and thus required, and part of normal operating expenses; |
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So Long, Analog Cell Phone Systems (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - It would be inappropriate to let Monday's sunset pass by: The early analog phone system, the 1G (first generation) that defined what followed, is shutting down. AT&T and Verizon will turn off their networks on Monday, and AT&T will shut down its original digital network that used TDMA. |
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Starbucks Plan, the Indie Coffeehouse Reaction (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - Beautifully detailed story at ComputerWorld on the reaction of non-Starbucks cafes to Starbucks switch to more free Wi-Fi with AT&T as partner: The reporter spoke to a lot of cafe owners and chains, and elicited some marvelous responses. The short story is: Hey, we've been free for a while; |
Loogic.com
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Alertron, monitorización servidores con alertas a móviles (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - Me cuenta Agustín Vivancos que está poniendo en marcha el servicio Alertron que ofrece a los administradores de sitios web una herramienta de monitorización de servidores con el servicio añadido de alertas en el móvil cuando la web monitorizada está caída. El servicio de envío de mensajes a móviles utiliza la API desarrollada por Open Movil [...] |
Gozzipz.com
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Playboy Is Hot For The Olsen Twins (Feb 29 2008 18:18 GMT) - Hugh Hefner might be the world's biggest pimps, but Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are not interested in posing for his magazine.He first tried to convince the twins when they turned 18, and they said thanks, but no thanks. Now, with their 22nd birthday somewhat around the corner (June 13th), Hugh has tried once more. An [...] |
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