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September 15, 2008

Wee-Fi: Indian Terror over Wi-Fi; Fastest Wireless; Health Fears; Wi-Fi Tub; and More

By Glenn Fleishman

Another terror message sent via open Wi-Fi in India: Credit for terrorist blasts in Delhi was sent by email minutes before the attack took place using a Wi-Fi network owned by a retired engineer’s wife. Though articles keep saying the network was “hacked,” the Telegraph also notes that the network was “unsecured.”

Italian free space optics test hits 1.2 terabits per second (in Italian, Google translation): Researchers in Pisa, Italy, along with colleagues from two Japanese institutions, crossed 1.2 Tbps in a test. Free space optics typically uses infrared lasers, and can work over a distance of kilometers.

More Canadian Wi-Fi health fears: This time in an island in Montréal. One of the concerned citizens: “This is something that is really under the radar. People do not know that long-term health hazards are associated with wireless technology.” They don’t know that because all verifiable, repeatable, well-conducted, academic tests so far indicate that there’s no such health hazard associated with EMF. The concerned folks are raising an alarm about Wi-Fi being broadcast island wide, but are not paying attention, obviously, to the AM/FM radio, satellite radio, cellular, cordless, and thousand other wireless uses that are bombarding them right now, often at far higher signal levels.

Wi-Fi in a tub: I’m not going to say anything more.

QuickerTek adds antenna to 300 mW ExpressCard for MacBook Pro: Users of Apple’s higher-end laptops can drop $200 to get a 300 mW Draft N (802.11n) ExpressCard and 5 dBi external antenna with a mounting clip. That’s a lot of power, and it’s important to recall that have a louder signal doesn’t mean that distant base stations can necessarily hear you better. Draft N devices typically pair better listening (receive sensitivity) with higher transmission power, however.

Mac product ties location settings to Wi-Fi position: Centrix has updated its $29 Mac OS X location preferences program NetworkLocation to take advantage of Skyhook Wireless’s Wi-Fi positioning data. You can now tie the package of settings that control what email account you use, iChat status, programs launched, disks mounted, and other factors, to where you’re currently at.

Posted by Glennf at September 15, 2008 10:03 AM

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