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No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from Philly

No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from PhillyNo surprise there[u]EX[/u] Mayor John Street did very little beyond appointing unqualified friends and family to high paying posts in the city, many times leaving under corruption charges or the like.I guess whoever he put in place to run this...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Brotherly Love, Philly, Wi-Fi network, EarthLink Inc., Wi-Fi, network

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Philly moves forward with Wi-Fi plan

Philly moves forward with Wi-Fi planNow I am confused...How is this different than any WISP doing a rollout? Well, other than the fact they have to pay the city to do it and will have big brother looking over their shoulder...There's a differenceIt's "Right of way" just like Cable...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Philly

Discussion threads 2006-03-02

Consultant: SF wireless broadband effort can learn alot from Philly's

Consultant: SF wireless broadband effort can learn alot from Philly'sSo 2 years from nowI use $10000 worth of WiMAX equipment to cover what would cost MILLIONS to do with WiFi. From another perspective, this is what WiMAX was MADE FOR - if you won't use WiMAX for this, then why...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Broadband Internet, wireless, Philly, WiMAX, wireless broadband effort, wireless broadband

Discussion threads 2006-01-13

Consultant: SF wireless broadband effort can learn alot from Philly's

In San Francisco, bids are due February 21 to build what is officially called the TechConnect Citywide Wireless Broadband Network. The City describes the project as an effort to build a "universal, affordable, wireless broadband network throughout the City and County of San Francisco."Fresh on the heels of his...

Tags: Craig, network, RFP

Blog posts 2006-01-13

Philly narrows Wi-Fi equipment choice

Philly narrows Wi-Fi equipment choiceStupid, greedy communications companies...If the cable and phone companies didn't keep RAPING the public on the cost of broadband, all this free, city-wide WiFi network business wouldn't be such an issue to begin with.Once again, big business is looking at only the SHORT-TERM loss from forward-looking...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Vertical industries, WIRELESS, government, Wi-Fi, Philly

Discussion threads 2005-08-20

Insecurities over Indian outsourcing

Insecurities over Indian outsourcing'is okay, right, MJB?With the new "black box" scheduled for Microsoft's Lamehorn, everybody on the planet will have everybody else's private data anyway, right?They got caught, money was returnedIf anything this proves that safeguards worked and police was effective in nabbing the bad guys.But ZDnet always like...

Tags: Financial services, Indian Outsourcing, Indian Government, Philly

Discussion threads 2005-04-26

Philadelphia reveals Wi-Fi plan

Philadelphia reveals Wi-Fi planThree cheers for Philly about timeI can see why Verizon and Comcast don't like the idea of allowing ISP's and others to sell broadband access. It just puts a huge dent in their plans to use their virtual monopolies to gouge people for internet access. ...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi plan, Philly

Discussion threads 2005-04-07

Philly, Verizon reach accord on city Wi-Fi plan

Philly, Verizon reach accord on city Wi-Fi planWhat should taxpayer's money be used forWhat should taxpayer's money be used for if not to help taxpayers? I don't know much about the Chicago-based Heartland Institute but my guess is that it's major function is to help support big business. So surprise!...

Tags: taxpayer, Philly, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-12-01

AT&T sets Wi-Fi aloft in Philly airport

AT&T sets Wi-Fi aloft in Philly airportWiFi securityI am a collehe student in the IT field and doing a research paper on WiFi security issues. I cannot find very much info in my search, i am asking if there might be someone with more experience than myself. Possible links in...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wireless security, Wi-Fi, Philly, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-01-26

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Clearwire: 'Google believes in us'

Google investmentsI wonder if Google will now start investing in Verizon's LTE buildout. The two companies have become quite chummy lately.Has google made any further investments in Clearwire? New marketsA friend of mine is setting up sales territory in the Raleigh and Philly markets for Clearwire. He's totally...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Google Inc., Clearwire Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Pitch of the day: Analytics PR spiel annoys Phillies fan

This just in: Information Builders has predicted the World Series winner and the Los Angeles Dodgers will defeat the Anaheim Angels. But before pitching someone the PR teams should at least check a locale or two. I'm a tweener between New York and Philly. Do you honestly...

Tags: Information Builders, Team, Analytics, Phillies, Team Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Killing cancer with social media

Drew Olanoff has infected the world with positive disease: awareness. And he's done so by taking advantage of the interwebs. Olanoff has been fighting cancer for a while now, and it looks like he's getting a little better. In the process, he has...

Tags: Social Media, Cancer, Olanoff, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Life In The Vast Plane...

At least you'd get some peace and quiet.At least you'd get some peace and quiet. Personally, I enjoy having some time off work, and don't want to be on the clock 24/7, thanks.RE: Life In The Vast Plane...That is an extremely valid point: 'always on' = burn out. Modern work...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

In South Africa, carrier pigeon faster than broadband

Translation: That's about 180KbpsFor the DSL speed. And given that they were uploading from another DSL connection, that's pretty close to a common upload cap of 256kbps in the US. Would that be called Beaker Net...instead of Sneaker Net?RE: In South Africa, carrier pigeon faster than broadbandHmmm.Maybe Linux...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, carrier, bandwidth, broadband, latency

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Philadelphia Police Claim 'Social Sites Led to Riots'

Russian Hooligans meet up to fight The darker side of flash mobs emerged again this weekend. While most people enjoy the happy confluence of dancers and singers for surprise performances in public places, such as the T Mobile Liverpool Street Station event, the darker side...

Tags: Teen, Philadelphia, Twitter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - finding a contact

Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - finding a contactThanks for the pointerI guess that if they don't respond, I'll continue to comment here on what I learn from others...Dan KYou'll never hear back from themunless you sent them numerous certified letters. I sent Comcast a few certified letters back in October...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Comcast Corp., Outrageous Comcast customer agreement, Outrageous Comcast, customer agreement

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

News to know: Exectweet, Twitter, Intel options, iPhone 3.0, Vista share

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft + Federated Media + Twitter = ExecTweets Exectweets: Nice, but not the revenue plan for...

Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Accounting, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Countdown to Philly ETE 2009

The Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2009 conference starts Thursday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I'll be attending the conference this year, and speaking at a session on Android development. Keynote speakers include: Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat and...

Tags: Author, Ed Burnette, Co-author, Open Source

Blog posts 2009-03-23

AT

ATiPhone 3G transcieveris a piece of junk. It has been problematic since the day they released the unit, and have never been able to resolve issues with it since they've patched it several times already.It has nothing to do with AT&Ts network. I carry a cheap Samsung 3G phone and...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, 3G, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

High speed rail: derision or da future?

It was fascinating to hear Louisiana's Governor last night deride high speed rail. "A train from Disneyland to Las Vegas." Does he think high speed rail to major tourist destinations is a bad idea? Or does he simply want to wait until private capital builds the lines? Fat...

Tags: China, Train, Speed, Governor, Louisiana, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-25