Glen Fleishman, who runs the 802.11b Weblog, recommends Dan Reiter’s weblog on wireless in general. I got a call from a market research firm working for MobileStar. I told them I wanted wireless access on CalTrain.
A list of things to do to help secure your wireless LAN.
After a trip to Dallas where I kept having to duck into Starbucks (mmmm… soy con leche) to get a wireless access point, a nationwide network of WiFI ISPs with single sign-on would be great. But why is the access client Windows-only when Apple ships nearly every iBook and TiBook with an Airport card?
Unstrung reviewed the CTIA’s guidelines for safe phone use while driving and offerred their amendments. 1. Get to know your wireless phone and its features such as speed dial and redial. This, of course, requires that you read your owners manual. First, flip through the first five sections to find the English version. Then read [...]
Online journaler Ceej Silverio has been at a secretive Palo Alto startup for the past year. Now the NYT has some leaks to work with, and it looks as if Danger Research is working on a wireless email application.
PeterMe.com linked an article on how we might use wireless devices to publish a ‘face’ to passers-by. What came to mind for me was the threat that every evangelical and Jehovah’s Witness will spam every device they pass with the WAP versions of Jack Chick tracts and Watchtowers. Note to self: investigate implementing spam filters [...]
On the XML-Dev mailing list, Arved Sandstrom responds to a post by Tim Bray derriding WAP as a multi-billion dollar failure. Sandstrom says that WAP is a pain and limited because of the devices it’s fed to, and that may be a good thing. Actually, come to think of it, of course they crippled the [...]
Now this is a great link to start off the week. My company’s applications, Nomad and Catalyst, are PC Magazine’s Editors Choice for Wireless Application development.
[ via John D. Berry ] This is more of a Zeldman sort of entry, but here goes. The Type Director’s Club is holding a one day conference about type on screen. The conference hopes to find ways for us to use type on terminal, eBook, and even phone screens effectively. Bruce Sterling gives the [...]
Sun’s Java Car, too nuff said. Sun’s presenting this at the Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium, 4:15PM, Wednesday, October 11, 2000, NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03.
[ via Slashdot ] WML, the stuff that makes life miserable for wireless site developers, will be phased out in favor of XHTML in the WAP 2.0 spec.
[ via Slashdot ] Dallas Semiconductor took an electric bike and outfitted it with a network to provide telemetetry, security, and a web server.
Using a new technology to deliver adult material can be considered a milestone in its adoption. I suppose. Of course now I can’t think of WAP without making a purient snicker.
[ via Salon ] Nokia and Real Networks have a deal to embed Real’s player technology in phones. European users will benefit first, since politics and markets are impeding the arrival of third generation, high bandwidth phones.
It’s a scheme, it’s developed outside standards groups, inconsistently implemented, and too closely tied to its parent. However, millions of people are using it. Java? No, WAP.