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Web design hampers mobile Internet, Berners-Lee says Web design hampers mobile Internet, Berners-Lee says Web design hampers mobile Internet, Berners-Lee says

While a mass market exists for the mobile Internet, it will remain untapped until designers make simpler Web pages that can be viewed properly on handsets, the inventor of the World Wide Web said today.

"Web designers have learned to design for the visually impaired and for other people. They will learn in a few years how to make Web sites available for people with mobile devices, too," Tim Berners-Lee said today at a seminar on the future of the Web. The mobile Internet "will be a huge enabler for the industry ... and for big profits."

Posted by rshah on March 19, 2005| Comments (0)

White House Sounds Call For New Internet Standards

White House Sounds Call For New Internet Standards
The expected wireless Web revolution may prompt the federal government to fund a redesign of the protocols that underpin the Internet, the White House's chief cybersecurity adviser said today. Richard Clarke, the administration's cybersecurity czar, said it may be time to consider replacing the "creaky, cranky" 20-year-old protocols that drive the Internet with standards better suited to accommodate a flood of new wireless devices -- and the security holes that may come with them.

Posted by rshah on July 31, 2002| Comments (0)

Wi-Fi in the Steel City

Wi-Fi in the Steel City
A growing number of cities are setting up Wi-Fi access in public outdoor areas like parks for business districts. The latest is Pittsburgh, where an outdoor public Wi-Fi network was launched Monday. It is run by 3 Rivers Connect, a nonprofit whose major source of funding is the state of Pennsylvania. Private wireless company Grok Technology is managing the network.

Posted by rshah on May 21, 2002| Comments (0)

Corner Internet Network vs. the Cellular Giants.

Corner Internet Network vs. the Cellular Giants.
The informal Wi-Fi networks that inexpensively provide wireless Internet access are fine, as far as they go -- which is generally a few hundred feet. But what happens when there are enough of them to weave together in a blanket of Internet coverage?

Posted by rshah on March 05, 2002| Comments (0)

Third (De)Generation

Third (De)Generation
As bubbles go, America's Internet has some serious competition: European wireless.

Posted by rshah on June 03, 2001| Comments (0)

Effort afoot to provide wireless LAN roaming

Effort afoot to provide wireless LAN roaming
Work is underway to iron out the technical and financial details needed to let mobile wireless 802.11b LAN users connect to almost any wireless ISP, similar to the how cell phone users roam and use multiple carriers to complete calls. The Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA), is developing standards that will let vendors share subscriber usage and billing data, so subcribers get only one bill from their "home" ISP.

Posted by rshah on May 30, 2001| Comments (0)

Turf Fight for the Airwaves

Turf Fight for the Airwaves
With limited space on the airwaves and increasing demand by new technologies, the debate in Washington presents stark choices for the Bush administration. The outcome will determine who wins and loses in what has become the 21st century's equivalent of the 19th century's wars between ranchers and farmers — a struggle for a crucial and limited natural resource as vital to the expansion of the information age as water and land were to the development of the West.

Posted by rshah on March 28, 2001| Comments (0)

Europe leads the way in advancing wireless

Posted by rshah on January 18, 2001| Comments (0)

America's Wireless Barriers

America's Wireless Barriers
A strong wireless market won't emerge until the U.S. deals with four key issues

Posted by rshah on January 18, 2001| Comments (0)

Grassroots Wireless Internet

Grassroots Wireless Internet
Small/remote communities in Canada are grabbing the broadband bull by the horns—aggregating demand, grabbing government subsidies, and setting up their own fixed wireless networks. Should ISPs care?

Posted by rshah on September 25, 2000| Comments (0)

IP address to Geographical Location

IP address to Geographical Location
Wants to sell geographically targeted advertising

Posted by rshah on August 16, 2000| Comments (0)

Parasite Network

Parasite Network
Vision of a global citizens band wireless network with inexpensive, low-power cellular antenna boxes

Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)