http://en.blogwimax.com Otro blog más de WordPress Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:27:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/08/01/killbills-is-born-in-france-as-a-free-alternative-to-fon/ http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/08/01/killbills-is-born-in-france-as-a-free-alternative-to-fon/#comments Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:47:26 +0000 admin http://en.blogwimax.com/blog/2006/08/01/killbills-is-born-in-france-as-a-free-alternative-to-fon/ Fon is such a success that every week new options are born based on it. The last one has been created in France and is called KillBills. It offers a system that anyone can use in order to allow access to his wi-fi network without the risks of just opening it. If you want to use it, you need a Linksys WRT54G router and download the KillBills firmware.

]]> http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/08/01/killbills-is-born-in-france-as-a-free-alternative-to-fon/feed/ 1 http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/10/a-french-fon-will-charge-users-to-use-wi-fi/ http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/10/a-french-fon-will-charge-users-to-use-wi-fi/#comments Wed, 10 May 2006 08:40:40 +0000 admin http://en.blogwimax.com/blog/2006/05/10/a-french-fon-will-charge-users-to-use-wi-fi/ Fon’s clones, more or less similar, start to show up. The latest one to appear is TLibre and it will operate in Marseilles with a wi-fi network based on the users’ hotspots. It’s different from Fon in the fact that users will have to pay 5 euros per month to be part of the system, in exchange of unlimited phone calls.In fact, voice services, especially via mobiles (wififon), are the ‘killer application’ of wi-fi networks. In TLibre’s case, clients have to habilitate their access, even though this doesn’t mean that they have to pay for the ADSL (something that Fon users must do), since the company is in charge of the installation and maintenance of the aerials.

]]> http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/10/a-french-fon-will-charge-users-to-use-wi-fi/feed/ 0 http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/10/softgal-will-install-wimax-and-mesh-in-a-estrada/ http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/10/softgal-will-install-wimax-and-mesh-in-a-estrada/#comments Wed, 10 May 2006 08:39:38 +0000 admin http://en.blogwimax.com/blog/2006/05/10/softgal-will-install-wimax-and-mesh-in-a-estrada/ The Galician firm Softgal (Software Services of Galicia) has been the successful bidder to win A Estrada Dixital’s telecommunications network for 567.000 euros. According to La Voz de Galicia (The Voice of Galicia, a local newspaper), the offer includes both wimax and mesh in order to cover the whole town of A Estrada. Wimax will be implemented in the distribution network, to which 12 wi-fi links will be hooked, apart from the other 20 links that will cover the town centre.

]]> http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/10/softgal-will-install-wimax-and-mesh-in-a-estrada/feed/ 0 http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/03/company-offers-software-to-create-wi-fi-zones-for-free/ http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/03/company-offers-software-to-create-wi-fi-zones-for-free/#comments Wed, 03 May 2006 12:24:31 +0000 admin http://en.blogwimax.com/blog/2006/05/03/company-offers-software-to-create-wi-fi-zones-for-free/ The North American company 2hotspot.com is offering a free software to create both free access and pay-per-use wi-fi zones. This programme allows us to create different types of hotspots: free access ones, shared ones (they allow us to share the costs of the connection depending on how much do users connect) and pay-per-use ones.

]]> http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/03/company-offers-software-to-create-wi-fi-zones-for-free/feed/ 0 http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/03/wi-fi-hospitals/ http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/03/wi-fi-hospitals/#comments Wed, 03 May 2006 12:23:10 +0000 admin http://en.blogwimax.com/blog/2006/05/03/wi-fi-hospitals/ This is an exhaustive article published in El Mundo about hospitals that are installing wi-fi aerials in order to improve their services to their patients. Thanks to wireless Internet connections, they can access to medical records quicker and from any point of the hospital, and they can also send prescriptions directly to the pharmacy.These hospitals use a central server where doctors connect via wi-fi from the rooms, or even from the operating theatres. To make that possible, they use computing terminals or PDA and TabletPC; San Llàtzer Hospital in Palma de Mallorca or Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital in Murcia are two examples. Moraleja and Zarzuela (Sanitas) Hospitals and the Clínica Universitaria in Navarre have installed wi-fi too.

]]> http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/03/wi-fi-hospitals/feed/ 0 http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/03/fon-comes-to-an-agreement-with-one-of-france%e2%80%99s-main-isps/ http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/05/03/fon-comes-to-an-agreement-with-one-of-france%e2%80%99s-main-isps/#comments Wed, 03 May 2006 12:22:22 +0000 admin http://en.blogwimax.com/blog/2006/05/03/fon-comes-to-an-agreement-with-one-of-france%e2%80%99s-main-isps/ Fon has come to an agreement with Neuf Cegetel, one of the main Internet providers in France, with 1.2 million ADSL clients. Soon, users will have Fon’s software in their routers, so that they’ll become Fon hotspots.The agreement will come into effect next June 1st and it will allow Neuf Cegetel clients to use their wi-fi computers or mobiles anywhere in the world where they are covered by Fon. This measure could provoke a war in the market of VoIP over wi-fi in France, where Free has already been offering a similar service for a few days now.

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]]> http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/04/19/how-to-ad-wi-fi-to-a-xbox/feed/ 0 http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/04/19/does-it-make-sense-that-a-city-council-creates-a-wi-fi-network/ http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/04/19/does-it-make-sense-that-a-city-council-creates-a-wi-fi-network/#comments Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:47:49 +0000 admin http://en.blogwimax.com/blog/2006/04/19/does-it-make-sense-that-a-city-council-creates-a-wi-fi-network/ 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.So city councils are trying to become the new would-be competitor to cable operators, who currently act like quasi-monopolies. The trouble is that many councils, under the guise of a praiseworthy project, create the networks on their own -as they create new sewer systems- and try to make them unique.And when asked by the media why they do it, they make up all kinds of excuses. The most eye-catching excuse is that given by the Philadelphia City Council: “The wi-fi network will make the city more attractive for companies and job-hunters”. Well, that could be true if they cut broadband prices down. But it is quite unlikely that public wi-fi convinces a company to settle in Philadelphia.

]]> http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/04/19/does-it-make-sense-that-a-city-council-creates-a-wi-fi-network/feed/ 0 http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/04/19/increase-in-the-number-of-thefts-of-laptops-with-wi-fi-in-the-silicon-valley/ http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/04/19/increase-in-the-number-of-thefts-of-laptops-with-wi-fi-in-the-silicon-valley/#comments Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:45:08 +0000 admin http://en.blogwimax.com/blog/2006/04/19/increase-in-the-number-of-thefts-of-laptops-with-wi-fi-in-the-silicon-valley/ 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.Nonetheless, the amount of thefts is not very big yet. The 18 reports of 2004 became 48 in 2005, and they are expected to rise to 70 this year. Most of these thefts happen in cafés with wi-fi hotspots where people use their laptops forgetting that they are expensive machines that can attract thieves.

]]> http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/04/19/increase-in-the-number-of-thefts-of-laptops-with-wi-fi-in-the-silicon-valley/feed/ 0 http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/04/10/google-patents-wi-fi-with-advertising/ http://en.blogwimax.com/2006/04/10/google-patents-wi-fi-with-advertising/#comments Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:56:09 +0000 admin http://en.blogwimax.com/blog/2006/04/10/google-patents-wi-fi-with-advertising/ 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 means that, depending on where the user is, he/she will see different ads. In principle, this will permit to offer free connection. Actually, Gogle is already trying to make this very same thing in San Francisco and a nuber of blogs have reported repeatedly the interest of Fon’s shareholder in creating a global wi-fi network.

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