Commercial Platforms: Frameworks for the Future at Port 80: Charthouse

By platform, I mean a collection of architectural ideas and the woodwork, plumbing and wiring that would accompany these ideas.

These corporate visions and strategies for the webcentric organization of social and economic life involve some vertical integration and spill into the Webtop applications, products, and services that will enable life online.

Microsoft

As more details of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system trickle out here at WinHEC 2001, Greg Sullivan, a lead product manager for Microsoft, said the new OS will eventually replace all of the company's previous operating systems.

Sun Microsystems

IBM

International Business Machines, the $88 Billion behemoth, is committing itself to one of the most radical shifts in its corporate history: a move away from proprietary systems and toward an open computing environment. Don't expect peace, love, and flowers, however. The future of IBM is at stake. And, perhaps, the future of the entire computer industry.

The mission of alphaWorks is to provide developers with direct access to IBM's emerging "alpha code" technologies. We are dedicated to unveiling the latest software technologies for you to download and evaluate. alphaWorks is redefining the way IBM develops new products by involving you in the earliest stages, before the technology is licensed or integrated into a product. If you are an innovative developer or a technological decision-maker, this is your chance to work directly with IBM's researchers and developers through our discussion forum and to influence the earliest phases of IBM's new product development. Check out the latest innovations from IBM research and development, and then tell us what you think.

To showcase practical applications of the newest technologies from IBM Research in a Ford Explorer 2002 Limited Edition. alphaWorks will demonstrate application solutions using IBM emerging technologies. These technologies are "alpha-version" technologies available for trial or licensing from IBM alphaWorks.

OK. IBM has put this stuff into a car. Where will you put it? Perhaps you could make New Era part of your supply chain.

Open Source

wireless

I'd rather be plugged into the Internet than into the wall. I'd like to know what would happen if everyone had fifty or a hundred times the bandwidth we do now.

This is one area where Europe and Japan are far ahead of the U.S. Why? Because they have a single wireless standard and we have two. They also were a little smarter about how they allotted (sold) the wireless spectrum.

the portal for news and information about citywide wireless broadband projects around the world.

Israeli startup Wavion is promising a cheaper way to flood entire cities with wireless broadband.

Wavion has developed a next-generation technology designed specifically for outdoor metro Wi-Fi networks that overcomes the performance, penetration, and profitability limitations of existing technologies. Wavion's spatially adaptive access points quadruple Wi-Fi coverage and capacity compared to current conventional access points , while reducing capital expenses by more than 50 percent.

FON is a Global Community of people who share WiFi. Join FON, share excess bandwidth at home and roam the world for free. FON, WiFi Everywhere!

Intel's two top executives, Craig R. Barrett and Andrew S. Grove, were here this year to preach the virtues of Wi-Fi, in the belief that it will be a powerfully disruptive force in the telecommunications industry.

Lots of companies are vying to create the Wi-Fi networks of the future. Joltage wants to be the mother of them all. ...

The startup aspires to be a kind of wireless network of networks, linking together a teeming number of public places like coffee shops, airports, and hotels that already offer their drop-by customers wireless access to the Internet.

Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson have decided to work together to allow users of any device send a text message to anyone else's phone in the world. Is it too ambitious a plan?

to engage and inform senior wireless executives about the huge opportunities in wireless. The packed agenda features case studies, demonstrations of the best of breed technologies and panel discussions from industry leaders.

Ricochet is easy to use, reliable, mobile access that keeps you connected to your customers, the office, the Internet and mission-critical information.

Using a high-speed wireless modem, you can replicate your in-office capabilities out of the office. You can send and receive e-mail with attachments, get full Internet access and access your intranet and corporate network. Access to your information just about anywhere, anytime, lets you work efficiently to add balance to your life.

Taking advantage of the tremendous opportunities posed by the ubiquity of wireless requires careful planning. This paper offers ten important considerations that will enable your company to develop a successful wireless strategy. Supporting case studies show how these considerations have been successfully implemented in the real world.

The technologies described in this paper will pave the way for the next major expansion of the Internet and help companies recognize opportunities for improved efficiencies in operations, sales and product offerings.

Wireless data communications is very much a work in progress. The purpose of this primer is to help companies create business plans based on a clear understanding of what is happening in this exciting time in the evolution of digital communications.

Wi-Fi Networks

Many Silicon Valley engineers now believe that it will be possible to take the tens of thousands of inexpensive wireless network connections that are popping up in homes and coffee shops all over the country and lash them together into a single anarchic wireless network. Connections could theoretically be passed from one Wi-Fi node to another, similar to the way wireless phone signals pass from cell to cell, thereby significantly extending the wired Internet.

Modeled closely on the original nature of the Internet, which grew by chaining together separate computer networks, the technology — known as wireless mesh routing — is being rapidly embraced in the United States as well as in the developing world, where it is viewed as a low-cost method for quickly building network infrastructure.

If the engineers are right, the popular and inexpensive Wi-Fi wireless standard, also known as 802.11, could serve as the wedge for the next-generation Internet, enabling a new wave of wireless portable gadgets that ultimately blanket homes, schools and shopping malls with Internet access.

Hawaii has given us many great things. Surfing. The ukulele. Don Ho. But of all of Hawaii's bounty, perhaps no gift is more wonderful than the one it is giving now: A group of dedicated tech junkies that's creating our wireless broadband future.

How to build a high-speed wireless home network of your own.

For years, home networking has meant drilling holes in walls and contorting yourself to string cables under your desks. But new wireless local area networks (WLANs) using the 802.11b standard, otherwise known as Wi-Fi, have put an end to all that fuss. While 802.11b gear started out expensive, prices have dropped to the point where you can outfit a two-PC household to share a broadband connection for about $300. If you're especially ambitious, you can geek out and extend the range of your network to 10 miles. And the best part: So many hotels, cafes, and airports now offer wireless connectivity, you can get online in all sorts of surprising places.

What is a freenetwork?

A freenetwork is an excercise in telecommunications freedom. A network created by those who use it rather than brought to consumers by business. It is not neccessarily 'free' as in cost, but more to the point, autonomous and self governing.

Freenetworks.org is a group of individuals and organizations that are committed to facing the social, political and technical issues that occur in the creation of these networks. We believe that through global communication and collaboration, we can work through these issues in a more efficient manner.

four top broadband wireless Internet services

A world where people routinely use high-speed wireless networks to access email, ecommerce, workplace data systems, the Web, and more — whether they are at work, at home, traveling, or going about daily business in their local neighborhood. ...

Private 802.11 Networks

Owned and operated by businesses, government agencies, and other organizations, these networks will work alongside — and powerfully extend — today's wired LANs. Enterprises will require that their wireless networks be as secure and manageable as their wired networks

Public Access Networks

Spearheaded by 802.11 community groups and underwritten by merchants and governments, these free networks will become pervasive — and indispensable — in urban areas around the globe.

Paid Subscriber Networks

Operated by Wireless ISPs (WISPs) and other service providers, these networks will serve customers that need technical support, guaranteed quality-of-service, and other services that free public networks cannot provide.

A Joltage HotSpot is a location where individuals can receive wireless Internet access at broadband speeds. HotSpots are administered by independent Providers who are connected to the Joltage network through a free software download and brand support.

Just about any location can become a Joltage HotSpot and provide individuals with broadband wireless Internet service. HotSpot locations include:

shopping malls
office buildings
common areas
airports
restaurants
health clubs
hotels
retail stores
parks
cafes
apartment buildings
salons

A Joltage HotSpot transmits a high-speed wireless signal that is recognized by a laptop or PDA outfitted with a wireless network card.

These cards serve as antennas, which transmit the signal to and from the HotSpot. The computer or PDA accesses the service within a range up to 2000 feet depending upon the strength of the signal.

Wi-Fi access in hundreds of hot spot locations, including airports, hotels, coffee shops and other public spaces.

Experience the Internet 100 times faster than dial-up!

Totally mobile.

No more tripping over pesky wires.

T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom subsidiary that operates the Wi-Fi network in 500+ Starbucks)

high-speed wireless Internet access in public locations such as airports, airline clubs and Starbucks coffeehouses. The service allows customers to access the Internet and their corporate Intranet via the Wi-Fi 802.11b wireless network from convenient locations away from their home or office.

Bluetooth

A network of devices connected in an ad hoc fashion using Bluetooth technology. A piconet is formed when at least two devices, such as a portable PC and a cellular phone, connect. A piconet can support up to eight devices. When a piconet is formed, one device acts as the master while the others act as slaves for the duration of the piconet connection. A piconet is sometimes called a PAN.

Turning points in Danish history:

950 A.D. King Harald Bluetooth united Denmark and encouraged the spread of Christianity.

The technology's being named after him should serve notice to you that the Baltic / Nordic countries are a hotbed of tech innovation.

Revolutionizes the personal connectivity market by providing freedom from wired connections - enabling links between mobile computers, mobile phones, portable handheld devices, and connectivity to the Internet. Interface, synchronize, exchange? All of the above, and more. Bluetooth technology redefines the very way we experience connectivity.

Where it works: Everywhere

Companies that manufacture computers, entertainment systems and other electronic devices have realized that the incredible array of cables and connectors involved in their products makes it difficult for even expert technicians to correctly set up a complete system on the first try. Setting up computers and home entertainment systems becomes terrifically complicated when the person buying the equipment has to learn and remember all the details to connect all the parts. In order to make home electronics more user friendly, we need a better way for all the electronic parts of our modern life to talk to each other. That's where Bluetooth comes in.

Setting up a Personal Area Network (PAN) has never been easier with the new Palm Bluetooth SDIO Expansion Card. I have tested this product with my Sony/Ericsson T68i mobile phone and an HP DeskJet 999c printer.


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