The city of Philadelphia plans to invest in a new wireless mesh network based on the Wi-Fi 802.11b standard, and officials hope to turn the 135-square-mile city into the world’s largest wireless Internet hot spot. The project is not without its challenges, however. “Even though a similar mesh network is operating in Chaska, Minn., that […]
Month: September 2004
Apple has announced that it will webcast its Q4 fiscal results conference call. The broadcast, which will be available exclusively in QuickTime, is set for Wednesday, 13 October 2004 at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET).
The Journal News reports that 120 middle and high school teachers in Putnam Valley, NY were given iBook G4s and that about 160 students in the seventh grade will get laptops during the second half of the year as part of their curriculum. Heavy backpacks stuffed with books may soon become artifacts in the Putnam […]
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.Mac Combined Storage Increases to 250MB
.Mac has finally announced an increased its storage space to 250MB. But looking closer it is a combined storage increase of the .Mac mail plus idisk storage. So pulling up my iDisk discovered that the increase was at 125MB. Also I learned on Apples site is that there is an increase in the size of […]
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ZaptoPhone Opens the Web to Cell Phones
Unwired Appeal has announced the launch of ZaptoPhone, a mobile entertainment service designed to easily enable Web sites to offer their photos, graphics, sounds, and music files to cell phone users. Read on…