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Minneapolis-St. Paul Wi-Fi: This comprehensive feature covers many aspects of hot spots, from business to community to individual, focused on the Twin Cities region. It's quite a nice article, moving from local to national to international and back without missing a beat, and the reporter (Julio Ojeda-Zapata) knows his stuff, explaining the technology well and offering context for free and commercial hot spot service. I love that he was able to get actual connections numbers for the Concourse service at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport! This is one of the first times I've seen any company reveal how many connections they're paid for in a specific location. There's also a sidebar on the equipment and configuration you need to use Wi-Fi. (Both articles quite nicely cite me or point to resources I've developed.)
33 million Wi-Fi nodes per year: Kevin Werbach cites market analysis firm InState as saying, Worldwide annual Wi-Fi node shipments will be 33 million in 2006, up from the approximately 6 million nodes expected to ship out in 2002.
New Book: Build Your Own Wi-Fi Network: I received a copy of colleague Shelly Brisbin's new book on building Wi-Fi networks today. It's a mainstream book, aimed at people who have interest in wireless networking and a bit of a technical bent who want to understand the underpinnings as well as learn the practical details for installing and configuring a Wi-Fi network. The book includes coverage of Mac, Windows, and Linux configuration. Disclosure: I'm actually finishing up a book that will directly compete with this fine tome, but isn't due out until January 2003. I'm both jealous and pleased that Shelly got her book out first. Ours will be slightly longer, and has a different internal organization, pushing some of the technical detail further back, and focusing slightly further in depth on a few areas. We'll be posting excerpts from the book, my co-author Adam Engst and I, when the release gets closer. Also, the cover you see at Amazon.com is not the real cover for our book, nor is the title now correct. More later.