Jeremy Allaire: Content IssuesBlog entries about digital content -- business models, distribution channels, unique approaches.Analysts: Wi-Fi a 'Positive Disruption'- April 9, 2003 Analysts: Wi-Fi a 'Positive Disruption' via 802.11 Planet "Not since the earliest days of the Internet have we seen a technology capable of creating such positive disruption and change and we expect that 802.11 and its derivatives will only increase in importance over the next five years," said Jupiter Research Director Michael Gartenberghttp://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,15925777,3649/ Wi-Fi for Everyone- April 9, 2003 Wi-Fi for Everyone via 802.11 Planet Efforts to deliver broadband to low-income housing via WiFi. Sounds great.http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,16147445,3649/ C and CLI Standards- April 9, 2003 Microsoft to score new C standard ISO will certify C language and CLI - CNET News.com via Loosely Coupled news aggregator CNet reported on the ISO "seal of approval" on Microsoft's C and CLI submissions. I looked into the ECMA and ISO "standards", and it's quite deceiving. Unlike many other consortsia-standards such as ANSI C or even ECMA-262 (ECMAScript), these are merely published references that CANNOT be used for commercial products or implementations. These last...http://news.com.com/2100-1007-995108.html WiMAX vs+ WiFi- April 9, 2003 From Broadband Intelligence: WiMAX companies say the new standard, a metro area network (MAN) technology, is capable of providing up to 31 miles of linear service area range and eliminates the need to be in direct line of sight to the base station, a critical flaw undermining earlier efforts at fixed wireless broadband. The technology can also pool capacity to deliver rates up to 70 Mbps, enough bandwidth for 60 T-1 type connections or capacity to deliver DSL-level speeds to hundreds of..http://radio.weblogs.com/0113297/categories/contentIssues/2003/04/09.html#a180 Commentary on Open Source vsand Open Standards- April 8, 2003 Openness in software. Kevin Werbach offers some good commentary on how open standards influences open source, and its relation to proprietary software.http://werbach.com/blog/2003/04/08.html#a998 Behlendorf on Open Source and Outsourcing- April 8, 2003 Open source and global development The world's full of smart people who have, collectively, a lot of the intellectual bandwidth needed to absorb and master open-source infrastructure. It's the scarcity of expertise with the software that has made open source uneconomical in a lot of cases. As people in India and Russia and elsewhere dig into open source technologies, they can broker that expertise and help bridge the gap between the theory and the practice of reuse. Full story at...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/04/07.html#a657 |