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The Seattle Times's take on sharing network connections wirelessly: a neat slice-of-life article in the Seattle Times, my hometown paper, about first-name-only users in a dense single-family residential neighborhood in Seattle starting to tenatively share. This is an interesting kind of sharing, because "David" wants to charge his neighbors a fraction of his cost, where much of the larger community networking efforts involve people who want to offer their bandwidth up for free as part of a larger matrix. Notably, the reporter talked to all sides of the sharing debate: cable, DSL, and local providers, all of which had different takes on the topic. (Speakeasy, the DSL provider quoted late in the article, is my home and business ISP.)
Qualcomm will add Wi-Fi to CDMA chipset: another piece of the overall picture.
WildPackets's office burns down, company soldiers on: a remarkable story about off-site backups and good business planning. No lives lost, and the company was back up and operating within about a day, according to this Internetnews.com report. WildPackets makes software widely used in the wireless LAN industry.