IHacked.com has created a tutorial to hack the Xbox in order to equip it with wi-fi connections. But watch out! One needs advanced knowledge of computing DIY. However, with this type of connection, the Xbox could become a powerful competitor to the other game console companies.
We are tracking with interest the news that arrive from the United States about city councils that decide to create their own wi-fi networks. We have to point out that they do it because broadband Internet access in the USA isn’t as available as in Europe and, therefore, prices are slightly higher.
The French operator Free is preparing a nationwide wimax offer, which will be the first of its kind in the world. The announcement is very important because Free is an ADSL company that offers IP phone services to its clients with Internet access as well.
Paradox of the information society. The number of laptops with wi-fi stolen in the Silicon Valley is increasing at the same rate as the figure of wi-fi hotspots. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, these computers can be connected to the Internet immediately.
The news has caused panic, even though it’s not that bad. Google has registered several patents of a commercial product,theadvertising-funded wi-fi, in the USA. In truth, the search engine aims to protect three technologies that allow offering Internet wireless access while showing ads of the type of GoogleAds.
This is the year of wireless connections to the Internet. Wi-fi and wimax are no longer two incipient technologies; they’ve become real alternatives to cable and ADSL. The generalisation of the use of VoIP also makes them cheaper than mobile phones when it comes to offering phone services.
The North American company Skyhook Wireless has developed a new software that allows to geolocalise a PC bearing in mind the wi-fi hotspots surrounding it. The programme, Loki, works in the functions bar of the navigator and offers a wide range of commercial services depending on the location of the laptop at certain moment.
The Basque company S21Sec has developed a rifle-shaped device to detect unsafe wireless networks. The novelty, which works connected to a laptop, includes a wi-fi aerial and software to analyse the vulnerabilities of each hotspot.
The North American company GigaBeam has patented the ‘WiFibre’, a wireless technology that reaches speeds of 1Gbps. It will allow to transmit videos of 90 minutes in less than 6 seconds; its power is already building dreams about all kind of applications.
The Wimax Forum, the organization in charge of gathering the main companies devoted to wimax, has appointed Cetecom (Telecommunications Technology Centre), the laboratory settled in Malaga, Spain, and Aeroflex to develop new systems that help analyse the accordance of the mobile wimax hardware (the standard 802.16e). The first device they will analyse is a base station emulator.