Amazon is having quite a week. A good deal of it has been focused on the alleged sextortion of Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos by The National Enquirer.…
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OPLIN 4cast #534: Indoor location
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Without giving it much thought, most of us have become regular users of location services in the past few years. Everytime we use GPS with…
OPLIN 4cast #496: MU-MIMO
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“MU-MIMO.” That’s so much more fun to say than “Multi-User, Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output.” MU-MIMO is wireless technology that allows a single wireless router to send internet…
OPLIN 4cast #484: Locating Wi-Fi users
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It’s possible that just about every library in Ohio has had people sitting outside the library using their Wi-Fi when the library is closed. That…
OPLIN 4cast #478: Wi-Fi with a HaLow
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Many of our previous posts on this blog about Wi-Fi have concentrated on new ways to make Wi-Fi faster. Now let’s talk about new ways…
The annual Cisco Visual Networking Index was released last week. We have blogged here about the VNI in the past – in fact, this is…
OPLIN 4cast #467: Wi-Fi interference
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At the beginning of December, the British telecommunications regulator Ofcom created a lot of attention in the media when it released a warning that holiday…
OPLIN 4cast #466: Light bulb Internet
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It looks like something big may be emerging from the lab into the real world. Its name is Li-Fi, and it is a technology that…
OPLIN 4cast #445: Free Wi-Fi tools
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There must be something about summertime that triggers interest in software tools to manage Wi-Fi networks, because in the last couple of months we’ve seen…
OPLIN 4cast #436: IoT security
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As more and more specialized electronic devices automatically connect to Wi-Fi wherever they can find a node, comprising the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), the…