3 July 2002 - Public Hotspot in NYC Sponsered by Intel
- From a list-serv I am on:
Wireless Park sponsored by Intel Wireless computing available anytime the park is open - Bryant Park now is a WiFi "Hot Spot", bringing the internet FREE to users of laptops and handheld devices with 802.11b Ethernet cards. NYC Wireless, a volunteer community group of computer wizards, provided the expertise to make Bryant Park the first park in the world to offer 802.11b wireless computing to its patrons for free. Go wireless and do work while enjoying the park.
How-to guides to get started are available at the park entrances.
[http://www.nycwireless.net/ NYC Wireless]
Intel is here in Portland's backyard - why not have them sponser a hotspot along the waterfront(s)?
1 July 2002 - Time Warner Sending Out Cease and Desist Letters in NYC
Time Warner sent out a nasty letter to an NycWireless [http://rickt.org/stuff/soho_wireless/twcnyc/ member]. He [http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/28/2011241.shtml posted to] SlashDot later with his personal comments. I doubt this will be an isolated case. [Update: The [http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/technology/01WIFI.html?pagewanted=print New York Times] has a take on the letter.]
25 June 2002 - Article on Warchalking
It may be slashdotted, but [http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/ Let's Warchalk!] suggests marking wireless access spots with chalk symbols. Your call as to whether this is useful or just more graffiti.
17 June 2002 - Article on SF Area Wireless Players
Link to an [http://www.sfbg.com/36/37/cover_wireless.html article] in the SF Bay Guardian. Horrible in technical details BUT there is some insight in the cities relationship with ATT/Comcast and some agreements that may or may not work against the wireless community down there.
17 June 2002 - Personal Telco monthly meeting Wednesday June 26th @ Its A Beautiful Pizza
Its almost that time of month again. Check out the MonthlyMeetings Page for details and directions to the meeting.
14 June 2002 - Personal Telco goes mobile with its expansion strategy
Aliza Earnshaw has written a [http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2002/06/17/story4.html great article] about PersonalTelco in this weeks Portland Business Journal article. Check it out.
10 June 2002 - Etherlinx story in NYTimes (free registration required)
Here is the link [http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/technology/10WIRE.html] to a story about small company trying to use 802.11b to overcome the 'last mile' problem. Just some food for thought.
5 June 2002 - Geographic Based Service
Personal Telco has been experimenting with Jim Binkley and Sumit Chawla from PSU on ways to offer location based services. We've ended up with something called UrlDaemon and it's now running on the Pioneer Square Node. If you're curious and willing to test, please [ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/mobile/urld/ download] it and let us know what you think (there are Windows, Linux and BSD versions).
1 June 2002 - Web Site Outage
Unfortunately the PersonalTelco web site has been down for a day and a bit. It is however back up full strength once again with the hardware on order for an upgrade to hopefully avert future issues.
22 May 2002 - Monthly meeting Wednesday May 29th at 6:00PM
This month we will be meeting at It's A Beautiful Pizza on SE Belmont. Please check out the MonthlyMeeting and MeetingAgenda pages for more details. As always come one come all and bring a friend, its very relaxed and fun.
NewsArchives of past events and important dates are available.