Boeing and Lufthansa Technik Receive Pioneering Approval for Wireless Internet and Data Access in Commercial Airliners

SEATTLE, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) and Lufthansa Technik have received industry-leading aircraft certifications from the German aviation authorities (LBA) and the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) that will enable the use of airborne wireless applications on select commercial flights using the Connexion by Boeing mobile information service. The groundbreaking rulings pave the way for passengers to use their own IEEE 802.11b Wi-Fi devices within the airline cabin environment.




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Intel: Centrino software that causes VPN crashes turned off!
The company said 'most' Centrino systems are now fixed

By BOB BREWIN

Source: computerworld
By BOB BREWIN

Intel Corp. said today that it has turned off software in its family of mobile processors that could cause some Centrino-powered notebooks to crash when used with a virtual private network (VPN) under the Windows or Windows XP operating system.
Yesterday, Nortel Networks Ltd. In Brampton, Ontario, said it had determined that Centrino-powered notebooks crash when running Nortel's Contivity VPN client (see story). Nortel has shipped more than 50 million copies of Contivity, according to a company spokesman.

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Wi-Fi Technology Forum news 29-05-2003

WintopUSA introduces the affordable Tablet PC. The iMe has an amazing list of features including the optional Wi-Fi Wireless LAN Card and a GPRS Wireless Modem, making it the perfect PC for offices, schools, hospitals, libraries, or anyone who needs big power in a small package.

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By Walter Mossberg

From bayarea.com

Laptop acts like PDA, but suffers design flaw

As lightweight laptops shrink more and more, and personal digital assistants gain greater functionality, the two are slowly merging in some respects. For instance, some PDAs now sport keyboards and can be used to edit documents. And the thinnest laptops are as slim as the larger PDAs.

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By JULIO OJEDA-ZAPATA
Knight Ridder Newspapers

from kansascity.com


Think of Alex Huff's car as Windows on wheels. The Minneapolis man has outfitted his economy sedan with a full-featured personal computer that serves as his highway co-pilot.

It reads him his e-mail and the latest stories from The Wall Street Journal. It plays him Sarah McLachlan and "The Matrix." It finds him wireless Internet networks in the vicinity so he can surf the Web and get his latest messages. It even pinpoints his precise location using global positioning satellites so it can feed him driving directions.

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From ebnonline

The wireless LAN (WLAN) industry will generate $1.67 billion in total revenue through the end of 2003, according to Allied Business Intelligence, Oyster Bay, NY.

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from ZDNET Australia

Kire Terzievski, Technology & Business magazine

If you’re going to have to lug it around, you might as well get a laptop that will make business colleagues green with envy.


In this feature we look at some of the fastest notebooks on the market, as well as many that are very well featured in other words, notebooks that will drive your friends into paroxysms of envy. Today, there are just about as many different types of mobile users as there are people, and thankfully there is a notebook to suit almost everyone. With the notebooks we looked at in this comparison, no expense was spared. And while that would have meant ridiculous price tags even only a few years ago, you can now get real mobile performers at prices that are (almost) down to earth. Let’s take a look at some of the features buyers should familiarise themselves with before making that purchase.

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CLARINET SYSTEMS DEVELOPS AN INNOVATIVE WAY TO CONNECT PDAS TO A 802.11 NETWORK
from a Clarinet's press release.


Fremont, CA. - February 10, 2003 - Clarinet Systems(R), Inc. a global provider of wireless infrared connectivity for handheld devices, announced today the release of their new product the ESB3011b, that can uplink data from a Palm Handheld or Pocket PC to an 802.11 network via the devices Infrared (IR) port. Unlike the other Clarinet Systems Infrared switches, the ESB3011b utilize an 802.11b uplink instead of a cable-based Ethernet uplink. The combination of an 802.11b network and Infrared connectivity enabled by the IR ports on virtually all PDAs and laptops makes the ESB3011b the most powerful single port switch to date.

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By Matthew Broersma, Special to CNETAsia
Thursday, February 13 2003 3:43 PM


Intel is expected to formally introduce its chip for smart phones this week, ahead of next week's 3GSM Congress wireless trade show.

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By Dan Briody
from redherring

Until now, wireless local area networks have been just another grass roots, hobbyist technology--the purview of home-networking enthusiasts and risk-taking IT managers. But all of that will change in 2003, as the major international wireless carriers roll out high-speed local networks. Paradoxically, this both threatens and assures the future of 3G--the heretofore heir to the wireless throne.

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