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Catch my TechTV appearance: My six minutes on TechTV's The Screen Savers show is now available in low but watchable QuickTime fidelity. I wave my hands too much, but I was able to talk for quite a while about 802.11g, WPA, and AirPort Extreme. I had a blast -- a great show and I wish I could get it on my local cable system.
Hitachi unveils Wi-Fi-equipped projectors: These are pretty high-end suckers including digital connectors (DVI): $11,000 and $13,000 plus $1,500 for the wireless module.
Lufthansa, Boeing to offer high-speed in-air trial: Although the article doesn't mention intra-plane Wi-Fi as an option, this was discussed in articles last summer about Lufthansa's goals. The service that Boeing can offer is 20 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up inflight for possibly $35 per flight. The test is being run from Frankfurt to Washington, D.C., a long enough flight that for the right people, $35 is a trivial amount. Voice over IP? Videoconferencing? Another way to annoy your neighbors.
Motorola, Proxim, Avaya to stitch seamless wireless network: The New York Times reports on today's expected announcement -- which was made -- about these three firms' efforts to stitch together different forms of wireless networking into a seamless whole to allow roaming across several kinds of networks, like cell and Wi-Fi hot spots.