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...Wimbledon may be one of sport's most old-fashioned events, but that hasn't stopped IBM from using this year's edition of the tennis tournament as a kind of tech lab. Equipment from IBM and Cisco is being used to turn the entire Wimbledon site into a wi-fi zone. Journalists will be able to file stories wirelessly from any location, and game statistics will be logged directly from courtside into the data-crunching network used by TV broadcasters. Perhaps the most useful innovation is the "Hawkeye" system that determines where a ball will land based...
...Chris Taylor's "Will You Buy Wi-Fi?" [TIME GLOBAL BUSINESS, May], an otherwise good article is marred by a throwaway line about 3G's being much better than Wi-Max, a new Wi-Fi standard, when users are traveling at high speeds. Our company, Wi-LAN Inc., has demonstrated since 1999 the performance of Wi-Max-like equipment with users moving at speeds of up to 100 m.p.h. Then, we did tests with users traveling at 70 m.p.h. while receiving data at 20 Mbps (10 times the data rate theoretically achievable by 3G systems). We have also received data...
...Despite the expense, it had to build 20,000 access points across America. These access points have to be as secure as Fort Knox and support Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs (think of a VPN as a solid, encrypted tunnel of data in the middle of any signal). Free Wi-Fi rapidly loses its appeal when you realize those home users could potentially take a peek at the data on your laptop as part of the bargain...
Cometa recently inked a cunningly symbiotic deal to test Wi-Fi in 10 McDonald's outlets in Manhattan. If the test works out, Mickey D's 30,000 U.S. locations will provide the kind of footprint in the heartland that Cometa needs. McDonald's is interested not only in better serving road-warrior diners but also in the savings to be had from a network where everything down to the milkshake machine's maintenance schedule can be accessed at a moment's notice. The company has Wi-Fi in Australian, Japanese, Swedish and Taiwanese restaurants...
...time and technology are on Brilliant's side. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers--those geeks who came up with the name 802.11--tentatively announced the creation of a new Wi-Fi standard earlier this year. It's called 802.16a, or more memorably, Wi-Max. It can comfortably cover a square mile, meaning it would take only 49 transmitters to blanket San Francisco. As Brilliant says with a grin, "Now it gets interesting." If you can cover entire cities with wireless Internet access, you suddenly have a very cheap alternative to cellular networks. But even Wi...