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Armenia
It looks like there's a good chance that'll i'll be spending part of october in Yerevan, Armenia, courtesy of za href="http://www.geekcorps.org/">GeekCorps, and the wonderful crew that sent me to Ghana way back when. Anyway, on the
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large community network in rural denmark
The rural area of djursland apparently got so tired of being too far from any urban area to get a decent broadband offer, that they have established a WLAN based community network to cover the entire area. At DKK 200,- (ca. EURO 30), for WLAN access it's
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WLAN / GSM roaming
Transat Technologies, backed by chipmaker Intel, is the newest entry into the business of securing smooth integration between Mobile Networks and WLAN Data networks. Working on software that allows authentication and billing of WLAN services via sim-cards (and other smartcards) they are just one more company in the rising business
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More positive 3G news
Here's another positive look at 3G in Europe. After recent aerticles, reports and news items have repeatedly killed of 3G in Europe before it even get's started, Business Week has this commentary. A sober look at what is actually happening on the 3G scene. The article
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European Union opens door to 3G operators
The European commission has decided to allow MM02 and Deutsche Telecom to share their 3G infrastructure investments in Germany. Similar decisions are expected for other key markets in Europe within a few months. This is a significant development, as it will drastically lower the cash-demands on already cash-strapped operators, and
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busy season….
well, i've been busy. apart from the fact that basketball season has started again, with twice weekly pick-up games, and soon real tournament games on weekends, it's challenging for my free-time, my physical condition as well as my more-or-less messed up knes. Some days the knees
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Added search
I've added a small search function to this blog. Found a MovableType specific search here. Thanks to Sifry for pointing it out.
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Bruce Sterling on Open-Source
Viridian Note 00325: Open Source Speech Read it! Now!
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we’re in the news again….
Not only are we in the news again, it's a full-featured article about wire.less.dk, GeekCorps, Telecom Sans Frontieres and the role of wireless in the digital divide. Even better, it's extremely well-written. So well-written and clear in it's reasoning that it manages
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blatant self-promotion
TheFeature :: It's All About The Mobile Internet My friend, Howard Rheingold, wrote this article for the feature, in which he explains the allure of projects such as ours here at wire.less.dk. Thanks Howard, it's a great piece.
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off-line web
Off-line internet. BBC this story on BBC is about a technican with a laptop who drives around to villages in India with downloaded, off-line content from the web. users can read the available pages and order other pages which then arrive after a day or two. it reminds me of
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EFF track ISP’s
The EFF has started an initiative to track ISP's whoose acceptable use policies and terms and conditions allow the sharing of wireless networks. Similar lists have been started for some time in free wireless projects such as consume.net and and it is great that the EFF has