If you are a train traveler and laptop user in good ol Texas, your ride might have just gotten a little easier. 4G Metro will put 10 Mbps per train on the Trinity Railway Express (TRE). The 4G Metro system will use ground based broadband to achieve the 10Mbps results using equipment from Colubris and Nortel.
The system will be available in early summer 2007.
There was a big rush to get Wifi onto trains a while ago, and now apparently it has slowed down a considerable amount. Florida’s Tri-Rail system is not going to be speaking with potential vendors for internet access on trains, it will be building their own. Florida’s Regional Transportation Authority has touched base with Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade to create a large scale mass Wifi network across the counties. The UK, Sweden, and Netherlands are leaders in the train Wifi market.
Attention hospital workers, do you know where your assets are? In the hustle and bustle, and extreme busyness that hospitals can see, its no wonder that there is a company implementing an asset-tracking system. The London Clinic will be using a system that will allow its staff to quickly locate the valuable equipment that is scattered about the hospitals many floors. The system will use the buildings existing WiFi network paired together with a wireless chip technology. It will triangulate a signal between wireless chips and WiFi access points scattered around the building, and locate an item within 10 feet. How’s that for making your job a bit easier? Now if only they can get this up and running to track lost keys, wallets, and lost documents on my computer!
There are lots of security issues that can arise when accessing the internet from wireless networks or shared computers. Passwords and activity can be tracked, and there is the possibly of security risks to any private accounts that are accessed.
Browzar is a free standalone application with no installation necessary, and is available in Mac, PC and Linux platforms. The download is short and sweet, being that the application is only 264K. You can also choose black or silver for your window frame color. Browzar does not have a cache, web history, or cookies, allowing for secure protected online activity. You can access any website you wish by entering the URL, or searching in your favorite web browser. This tool does not have tabbed views, but you do have the ability to open multiple windows. In all, Browzar is a nice tool to use for securely accessing the internet either by wifi, or on shared computers.
Ebay has unleached a new service - SMS Alerts. The whole purpose of these alerts are to keep bidders ahead of the pack, and win their desired ebay item.
You are connected to ebay, and your desired product at all times through ebays SMS alerts. The ebay system notifies you by alerts to bid on items. The ebay system notifies you with Outbid and Item Ending Soon alerts. This service is considered a premium SMS message, and could be charged 25cents per message.
Besides Ebay’s SMS notifications, they also have a Phone Call alert program, and an Instant message alert system through AOL, MSN, and Yahoo instant messenger systems.
The Singaporean government has established a park with wireless Internet connection, the first in the island state.
The Park will comprise of 16 hectares, which was tasked with developing key industrial facilities in the city-state.
Singapore had invested billions of dollars into developing new growth engines for the economy with a strong focus on higher-value, research-intensive industries such as biomedical science to remain competitive.
A security Relevant Products/Services from expert has uncovered a potentially dangerous flaw in Windows that could enable unauthorized access to a PC via wireless connections. The specialist detailed his findings at the Shmoocon hackers gathering in Washington, D.C.
The vulnerability, affecting millions of Windows 2000 and XP users, is related to the way in which the operating systems on notebook machines with built-in wireless capabilities automatically seek out a wireless network Relevant Products/Services from LightPointe connection when they are booted up, said Mark “Simple Nomad” Loveless of Vernier Threat Labs.
source: wirelessnewsfactor.com
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