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nelson : Skyhook WiFi positioning - Part of how your iPhone knows where you are; a company wardrives and builds a database of WiFi locations
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deusx : Gizmodo - Sprint Selling MiFi 2200 Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot for Its 3G Service - Sprint mobile hotspot - I've got a pocket in my backpack that'd be perfect for this thing. "Remember how well Sprint 3G did in tests? And how much we like portable hotspots? Put them together with the $100 Novatel MiFi 2200, and you have a pretty nice setup, dubbe
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deusx : Novetel’s MiFi Isn’t Just a Skinny Looker. It’s Smart Too. - "The device includes both a 3G and a WiFi radio: you simply turn it on, it connects to a 3G network and then broadcasts that signal over WiFi for up to five devices. Aside from the initial configuration, the most difficult interaction you’ll have w
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deusx : iPhone & iPod Touch Now Uses Wi-Fi to Find Location - Cell Phone Digest - "Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), recently announced that Apple is using its technology for the new Wi-Fi location positioning feature in its Maps application on both iPhone and iPod touch. Using WPS, iPhone and iPod
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deusx : CradlePoint Technology - "The PHS300 creates a fully portable WiFi Hotspot from broadband-enabled cellular phones and modems. Take WiFi to a new level by 'bringing it with you'."
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deusx : Novatel MiFi proves "3G hotspot" and "sexy" can coexist - Engadget - I've had Palm sleds and PCMCIA cards for cellular internet from these guys. This thing looks hot. "Our EV-DO ExpressCards are looking a whole lot frumpier (and less functional) today now that Novatel's shown off this hot little metallic n
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deusx : Meraki Releases World’s First Solar-Powered WiFi Device : CleanTechnica - "Yesterday, wireless networking provider Meraki started shipping the world’s first solar-powered WiFi mesh device. Meraki’s groundbreaking energy-independent device is powered by a single solar panel and solar-charged battery. Since the unit requ
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deusx : Meraki infrastructure is your complete solution for deploying wireless networks of any size. - "It took less than 30 days from sitting downtown having a hot dog, to having a fully functional wireless network"
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deusx : PART 1: Why Do Most Free Wireless Efforts Fail? || Wireless Ypsi || We Are Connecting Ypsilanti - "Meraki has a fundamentally changed the way mesh networks are designed and deployed. For one the nodes are cheap. The indoor radio is $150 and the outdoor is $200. By comparison, just one year ago we were purchasing outdoor radios using similar techn
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18 month ago
deusx : Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Geode - "Introducing Geode, an experimental add-on to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 ahead of the implementation of geolocation in a future product release. Geode provides an early implementation of the W3C Geolocation specification so that developers can
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18 month ago
deusx : Road Warrior: I'm writing this post from 30,000 feet, and you're not - "I like to think I'm resistant to neophilia, the fetishistic embrace of new technology endemic to Silicon Valley. And yet I felt a rush when I logged on to Gogo's inflight Wi-Fi service on the American Airlines flight I'm currently tak
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19 month ago
joshua : Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address (BSSID) « coderrr - reverse engineering skyhook's protocol
nelson : Skyhook protocol - How to query position for a wireless MAC address. Not sure if this still works
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19 month ago
deusx : Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system - Yahoo! News - "Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units."
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19 month ago
deusx : Black Lotus Brewing Company - "So, feel free to wander around, find the scrabble board and make yourself at home. Also, please tell us if there is anything else we can get you if you didn’t find it on the menu. If it’s legal, we will certainly try our best."
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20 month ago
deusx : NetShare briefly offers iPhone tether at App Store | iPhone Approll ... - "The application basically turns your iPhone into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot, giving all of your Wi-Fi-enabled devices internet, wherever you have a cell signal."
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20 month ago
deusx : Sprint AIRAVE - "It's like having your own miniature cell tower with a coverage radius of up to 5,000 square feet."
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deusx : Wireless Ypsi at the Brewers Beer Fest || Wireless Ypsi || We Are Connecting Ypsilanti - Wow. I didn't realize there was wifi at the Beer Fest! "But heck, we didn’t mind. Free beer and Free Internet, could it get any better? We don’t think so."
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deusx : Wireless Ypsilanti brings free Wi-Fi to downtown, looks to expand coverage - "Wireless Ypsi, which began in January, provides wireless Internet at speeds of about 1.5 megabytes or about the speed of DSL or T1 connections. The company, which is run more like a non-profit, uses Meraki technology to connect Internet hot spots at
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22 month ago
joshua : Photojojo Blog » Maximize Your Eye-Fi Range for Event Shooting
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26 month ago
gleuschk : Feature: Turn Your $60 Router into a User-Friendly Super-Router with Tomato - I followed them to DD-WRT. Any reason to do this?
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28 month ago
joshua : CradlePoint Technology CTR-350 Cellular Travel Router - awesome
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29 month ago
WillPate : Eye-Fi: How One Little Chip Will Change the Way You Share Pictures - Put the wifi in the memory card - brilliant
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29 month ago
Rod Begbie : Coova.org : Facebook; Social WiFi Utility - Interesting use of Facebook's APIs: Allow internet access via your wireless router to anyone who is your friend on Facebook. [via] #
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30 month ago
Linkorama : Wi-Fi Detector Shirt - But now thanks to the ingenious ThinkGeek robot monkeys you can display the current wi-fi signal strength to yourself and everyone around you with this stylish Wi-Fi Detector Shirt. The glowing bars on the front of the shirt dynamically change as the surr
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