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HP gets approval to ship iPaq with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi: I'm assuming this approval was from the FCC and that the wireless access is embedded (rather than in an external card). I'd be curious to know whether HP was deploying a version of 802.15.2 (co-existence of Bluetooth and 802.15.1-2002 with 802.11 2.4 GHz specs) or had developed its own technology to allow the two standards to operate so close to each other.
Electromagnetic leeks: Put an allium in your headband, and praise the foresight of the government of Wales for pushing out a ubiquitous Wi-Fi network along with other services when market forces said there wasn't a profitable case for bringing the region into the 21st century of Internet communications. Wales is apparently one of the most spectacular places on the planet, but is having a rough time in the economic transition. Individuals and the government have implemented several interesting, successful ideas, such as the National Garden of Wales, an extraordinary transformation of old claypits into a world-class botanical center; and Hay-on-Wye, a booktown.
Wi-Fi Alliance to begin 802.11a certification: They were waiting for multiple chipsets.
MIT Stanford Venture Lab: the Wild West of Wi-Fi: Tues., Oct 15., listen to how Vernier Networking (only coincidentally a sponsor currently of this site) plans to chart a successful route to profitability by selling wireless LAN management hardware that can pull together the many threads of operations. A panels discusses the issues after the CEO presents.
Ant colonies and grassroots Wi-Fi: W. David Stephenson talks about the emergent behavior of grassroots Wi-Fi networks as they expand in size and utility. Emergent behavior is a powerful concept because it states that complexity without centralized organization can result in order not chaos, sophistication instead of a breakdown. Sort of the opposite of the rules of capitalism as practiced in the United States and elsewhere. I see emergent behavior all the time at isbn.nu, a book price comparison service I run. The several programs, including CGI scripts, daemons, and cron jobs have an interesting dance that I sometimes seem to have little involvement with. Like watching locusts eat a corn field, or dragonflies mate.
Wireless around the world: In Japanese, Dave Gross writes, wireless is called musen. Sean (melting eskimo) notes that in Chinese hanyu pinyin, wireless is written as wú xiàn.