From Consumerist:
To build the booster, you need a USB extension cable, any USB WiFi adapter, and a tight-mesh parabolic cooking strainer. To reach WiFi signal heaven, stick the USB WiFi adaptor through the center of the parabolic strainer and connect it to the USB extension cable.
Tags: WiFi, Wireless, Signal Booster
Not that this news was any great surprise but, a researcher that exposed wireless driver issues at Black Hat didn’t use Apple drivers.
“Despite SecureWorks being quoted saying the Mac is threatened by the exploit demonstrated at Black Hat, they have provided no evidence that in fact it is,” Apple Director of Mac PR, Lynn Fox, told Macworld. “To the contrary, the SecureWorks demonstration used a third party USB 802.11 device–not the 802.11 hardware in the Mac–a device which uses a different chip and different software drivers than those on the Mac. Further, SecureWorks has not shared or demonstrated any code in relation to the Black Hat-demonstrated exploit that is relevant to the hardware and software that we ship.”
Tags: Wireless, Mac, Black Hat, WiFi Exploit, 802.11
The city of Paris wants to roll out wireless access. The plan includes setting up 400 free wireless access points next year.
“We will act fast and firmly… to create the most favourable conditions for Paris,” Delanoe told reporters at city hall. “It is a decisive tool for international competition and thus important for the city.”The plan also calls for slashing taxes on companies that lay down fibre optic cables in a drive to have 80 percent of all buildings within the city connected to so-called ‘ultra-high speed’ fibre optic networks by 2010.
I can picture it now. Kicking back at a cafe surfing the web…wait, no, I’m pretty sure even I would be unplugged if I was chillin in Paris.
Tags: Wireless, Internet Access, Free WiFi
Not sure how this one will fair against Blackberry and the Palm Treo. CNN has a review of the Motorola Q.
Motorola’s latest phone, out this week, shares its name with the iconic gadget guru of the James Bond movies: Q.
If Q, the person, had supplied 007 with a Moto Q phone, the conversation may have gone something like this:
“So what does this thing do, Q?”
“E-mail, Bond. It’s the new way to do business.”