Wireless Mania

burnsy and others sent in links to stories about 802.11b that are cropping up everywhere. The New York Times has one. (Well, two, actually.) Salon has one. InternetNews has a piece about Boingo, a new wireless start-up, that's also covered in this Forbes article. (The NYT article above also mentions Sputnik.) Both Boingo and Sputnik are trying to leverage the existing community wireless networks to speed their network build-outs. MIT's Tech Review has an interesting piece about a wireless start-up that has already tried and failed. Fixed wireless is also booming, according to an industry study.

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history of va 'linux'

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Our company tried to build a high-speed *nix operating system that could be used in cities throughout the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. We were going to do it using unlicensed portions of code and with pc network equipment that employed a hot new standard called x86. And we were going to charge nothing. Of course, we failed.