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WHAT'S NOT Anyone accustomed to iPod-like simplicity will find the MyFi an exercise in accessory hell. Riddled with buttons, it also has 20 add-ons, including a clip-on antenna to boost the signal...
...wireless fidelity) is the cable-free technology that lets people surf websites and check e-mail while sitting in a Starbucks, an airport lounge, a hotel lobby, a city park or anywhere close to an antenna. The technology has grown dramatically in recent years: French research firm IDATE counts 130,000 hot spots in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, and U.K. research group Analysys predicts that by 2009 there will be over 38 million wi-fi subscribers in the U.S. and Western Europe alone. Most observers believe that its next big step will be the introduction of WiMAX...
...while the world waits for WiMAX, wireless operators in Sydney, Johannesburg, Paris and the Bay Area are already deploying ArrayComm's new antenna design, to the dismay of mobile carriers. Conventional mobile antennae, Cooper says, "are really just a bunch of sticks - we make them smart.'' Where conventional masts send out signals in circular arcs - a process that wastes transmission power because only the signals that hit a phone are used - an ArrayComm antenna transmits signals in a straight line, targeting a particular phone that it recognizes using specialized software. Cooper says ArrayComm's software, which resides in computers...
...That’s not a cross, it’s an antenna,” he said, making a valiant, if ultimately unsuccessful, effort to suppress his contempt. “The bars measure your reception.” I called my brother at breakfast to ask about the proper usage of “to mack on.” (“What? I’m awake because you called me.… Oh—I think it’s ‘macking with.’ Like...
Well, almost everyone. It was the city's computer gnomes who first noticed that people were still using that Vivato antenna. Because the city never turned it off, it was still up there, pumping out free wireless Internet, and people were logging on. "All the time we're watching, there were always 10 to 15 people on the network," says Garvin Brakel, director of management information services for the city of Spokane. "It was unadvertised, unknown, but people were finding it regardless...