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wi-fi.org - 10/8/2008

College students say Wi-Fi has become a fixture on campus; 73 percent say Wi-Fi helps them get ...

— wi-fi.org — Wi-Fi Alliance® poll provides insight to always-connected undergrad lifestyle Austin, Texas - Oct. 6, 2008 - Wi-Fi is an integral part of today's college experience, changing the way students study, interact with professors, and socialize. In a survey ... (more) College students say Wi-Fi has become a fixture on ...

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macnn.com - 10/14/2008

Wi-Fi Gets a Boost With Quantenna Chips - GigaOM

— macnn.com — If you’re like me and believe that Wi-Fi is going to rule the home networking environment , then a means to ensure reliable and fast Wi-Fi connectivity to all corners of the home becomes essential. That’s where chipsets from Quantenna Communications ... (more) Wi-Fi Gets a Boost With Quantenna Chips - GigaOM

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blog.oregonlive.com - 10/7/2008

Wi-Fi antennas will winter in Oregon

— blog.oregonlive.com — See you in the spring (and the fall, and the winter...)MetroFi's 600 abandoned Wi-Fi antennas will stay up at least through April 2009, as the city waits for the gear to be legally forfeit. State law gives Portland the option... (more) Wi-Fi antennas will winter in Oregon

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Over 300 iPhone Apps Use Location Look-Ups
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... Skyhook knows this because all of those apps use their service to determine a location. They've been tracking the apps as they've come out. Skyhook cannot publicly reveal the number of look-ups from location apps, but it's a lot. Right now the look-ups are evenly split between using the iPhone's GPS, WiFI (Skyhook's WPS), and Hybrid ( ...

Symbian Adds WiFi Positioning
dailywireless.org — Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) and the XPS Hybrid Location System, is today demonstrating Wi-Fi positioning on the latest version of Symbian OSTM, v9.5. Symbian, the market leader in open operating systems for mobile phones, will support Skyhook’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) through Symbian’s LBS architecture, enabling fast and accurate location acquisition in urban and indoor environments. A demonstration of this technology is being showcased on the Symbian stand at the Symbian Smartphone ...

Laptop Recovery Software Uses Wi-Fi, Flickr
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... ($59.95, one-time fee) uses Skyhook Wireless's Wi-Fi Positioning System, the same technology that's part of how the iPhone and iPod touch determine location. MacTrak also uses Flickr as a way to post photos snapped of someone using a machine identified as lost or stolen. ...

Dell Notebook with Turn-by-Turn Navigation
dailywireless.org — ... $69 add-on is a hybrid WiFi/GPS Mini PCI-E card/software package, and combines location based information using the Skyhook positioning system and A-GPS (when a signal can be acquired). The hardware part is an internal GPS card with built-in Wi-Fi locationing. It can calculate your position using Wi-Fi access points or using GPS satellites. The Dell Wireless 700 is powered by Broadcom's A-GPS and Skyhook Wireless' Wi-Fi position solutions. The Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) can determine the location of Wi-Fi enabled ...

Dell Notebook with Turn-by-Turn Navigation
dailywireless.org — ... add-on is a hybrid WiFi/GPS Mini PCI-E card/software package, and combines location based information using the Skyhook positioning system and A-GPS (when a signal can be acquired). The hardware part is an internal GPS card with built-in Wi-Fi locationing. It can calculate your position using Wi-Fi access points or using GPS satellites. The Dell Wireless 700 is powered by Broadcom's A-GPS and Skyhook Wireless' Wi-Fi position solutions. The Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) can determine the location of Wi-Fi enabled ...

Location-based Parking Apps
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