As far back as 1914, AT&T was looking at ways to use power lines for telecommunications. About ninety years later, there was a flurry of…
OPLIN 4cast #530: Power and broadband
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As far back as 1914, AT&T was looking at ways to use power lines for telecommunications. About ninety years later, there was a flurry of…
There’s always a lot of speculation prior to the release of a new iPhone. However, Apple just did something major that gives weight to one…
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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…
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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…
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We are about to hear a lot of hype and hoopla about 5G wireless. If the rollout of 4G is any indication, wireless carriers will…
So you have public Wi-Fi in your library, and your users are thankful. But how about power for recharging their wireless devices? Do they have…
A couple of months ago, we published a 4cast post about “Jamming hotspots” and the big fine the Marriott hotel chain had to pay the…
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A couple of weeks ago, the Federal Communications Commission fined the Marriott hotel chain $600,000, charging that they “…intentionally interfered with and disabled Wi-Fi networks…
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This weekend at the “Hackers on Planet Earth” conference, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) plans to demonstrate new open source firmware for wireless routers. While…
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Companies and organizations that make predictions about the future often seem to focus on a five-year span. So in 2013, those organizations were developing their…