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BellSouth expands WiMAX coverage
BellSouth Wireless Broadband Service is expanding its services to several more cities in the Southeast--Melbourne, FL, Chattanooga, TN, Greenville, MS, Charleston, SC and Albany, GA. The company will be using the 2.3 GHz WCS spectrum, which it is already using to offer service in Palatka and DeLand, FL, New Orleans, LA and Gulfport, MS. (note that in Athens, GA, the company is using the 2.5 GHz Broadband Radio Services spectrum).
Mel Levine, BellSouth's director of product …
EarthLink's muni-WiFi challenges in Anaheim
Atlanta, GA-based EarthLink was created in 1994 as a dial-up provider, but has since become a major player in muni-WiFi: It has eight contracts so far to provide cities with WiFi service, with the two largest being Philadelphia and San Francisco. The company currently offers broadband service to slightly more than five million subscribers, but Garry Betty, the company's president and CEO, says that when all contracts are fulfilled, the company will have more than 25 million homes serviced …
Slow takeoff for 802.11n
The arrival of new standards is typically preceded by assertions, at times extravagant assertions, about the promise and potential they hold. 802.11n is no exception. Some companies do not wait for the standard to be finalizes before offering pre-standard gear--and also rushing to make all kinds of proclamations about the capabilities and benefits of the pre-standard gear and its future compatibility with and upgradability to standard-certified gear, once the standard is finalized. …
Trend: Dutch hospital deploys WLAN
The healthcare industry was among the first to adopt WiFi, and as the quality of wireless transmission improves and the security of such transmissions bolstered, hospitals are beginning to increase their reliance on WLANs for an ever greater number of services and missions. Walcheren Hospital in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, has 350 beds and 1,300 employees. The hospital has just deployed an enterprise-grade WLAN from trapeze Networks in its cardiology department and pediatrics …
Starbucks launches Summer Scavenger Hunt
Have nothing to do this summer? Starbucks has the solution: The company yesterday launched its Starbucks Summer Pursuit, also called Scavenger Hunt--a game players play using their cellular phones or PDAs. The game relies on intelligent image recognition which reads, or understands, the player's responses to clues. Players will have to decipher a series of clues and answer trivia questions sent to their phones and PDA--and their responses will have to be given either in images or in text …
SPOTLIGHT: We'll always have Paris
Too bad for the French to have lost to Italy in the World Cup's final. Let's hope they find solace in their capital city's aggressive plan to develop 400 free hot-spots--63 public libraries, 200 public gardens and squares and 40 district offices of the city hall--where the French public will have free access to the Internet. We reported on the city's ambitious plan two weeks ago and IDG's Peter Sayer offers a useful update. Mayor Bertrand Delanoe takes the plan very …
ALSO NOTED: Handheld Europe shows off new PDA; Free WiFi in Pomona?; and much more...
> Handheld Europe is showing its new TDS Recon-X series, an 802.11g-capable rugged PDA. Report
> Pomona, CA, is mulling the idea of a free downtown WiFi, and a few companies involved hold a WiFi demonstration to gauge the reaction. Report
> Microsoft dismisses as "speculation and rumor" news that the company was planning …