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Citizens of Corpus Christi, Texas, can thank a snapping dog for the free wireless Internet they enjoy around town. After the pooch took a piece out of a utility meter reader, officials decided they needed a Fido-free system. The city built a small wireless-fidelity (wi-fi) network that transmits meter data from homes via the Web. The pilot worked so well that Corpus Christi dreamed big, using tax dollars to fund a $7.1 million, 147-sq.-mi. network that went live last month. Now park sunbathers can Web surf and this town of 300,000 is home...
...bring high-speed access to rural areas stuck with dial-up. Big telcos such as Verizon and AT&T, having first tried to fend off wi-fi in state legislatures, have also joined the battle to own and operate these systems. More than 300 communities nationwide plan to have wireless ventures in the next year, according to MuniWireless.com a portal on city projects. Several dozen small cities--including Corpus Christi; Tempe, Ariz.; and Chaska, Minn.-- already have full-blown systems in use. If 2006 was the year of making deals, 2007 promises to be the year of going live...
...heists" on the West Coast. At one credit-union branch, Stickley flirted with female staff members in the break room while Alsbury, who played the straight man to Stickley's goofy charmer, had four minutes alone in a credit union's communications hub--plenty of time to install a wireless "sniffer" that could later broadcast information going in and out of the bank. He could also have shut down the security cameras, alarm and telephone systems. The pair got access to the back side of the ATM and a room with boxes of backup customer data. Alsbury was able...
Texas ranchers have embraced helicopters for herding, wireless Internet access for keeping an eye on the futures markets and microchips for tracking their cattle, but there is one piece of modern technology that is sparking a range war in the vast open spaces of the state - the windmill turbine, which opponents say is noisy, ugly, dangerous to wildlife and a tax boondoggle to boot...
Streaming video without having frames freeze or an occasionally garbled picture requires a network that sends packets of data consistently, without interruption. Ruckus' range is three times that of other wireless networks, and for streaming the latest Lonely Girl, it's both swift and stable. While appliances like microwaves or phones can interfere with traditional wireless networks, Ruckus' technology overcomes those problems by rerouting signals along an unobstructed path. "We're making wi-fi a utility, rather than a very specialized kind of network for computers," Lo says. Because wireless remains a novelty for many American consumers, though, the company...