Naomi Graychase

Thanks to Microsoft’s new Windows XP Media Center Software Edition 2005 and a small battalion of new compatible products announced today from industry leaders Linksys , D-Link , and Netgear , there’s never been a better time to just stay home. To boost the capabilities of Media Center PC users, the consumer Wi-Fi rivals have […]

Starting in mid-October AT&T, in partnership with industry-leader Linksys (a division of Cisco Systems , will begin offering Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to home users across the country. The service, available to AT&T’s CallVantage customers, will utilize custom-designed hardware to provide broadband Internet access, along with affordable domestic and international long-distance calling. To take […]

Thanks to Arizona-based Corridor Communications Marcia Mills, a student and mother of two in the small town of Stayton, Oregon can now do her homework online while watching her kids at the park. Stayton, which is home to roughly 7,000 people, recently celebrated it’s 103rd birthday—and is now also celebrating its inclusion in a newly […]

This week, somewhere deep in the deserts of Las Vegas, a gang of wireless hackers will test their mettle in geekdom’s version of extreme sports — the second Annual DefCon Wi-Fi Shootout. The contest will take place as part of DefCon, a conference in its twelfth year that bills itself as “the largest underground hacking […]

As wireless hotspots continue to crop up everywhere from fast-food joints to museum lobbies, the quest to penetrate new markets and find ways to actually turn a profit has brought some entrepreneurs to the conclusion that there’s only one way to make money from today’s Wi-Fi users — the old-fashioned way — advertising. Starting this […]

Every entrepreneur or technophile prides herself or himself on thinking outside the box. Very few however, actually succeed in escaping all the confines which shape our ideas about what technology is and how we can apply it. Julian Bleecker — inventor, grad student and software developer — has not only found a way to truly […]

If Wi-Fi upstart Cometa Networks has its way, in the very near future you’ll never be more than five minutes from a hotspot. For suburban dwellers, that would be a five-minute car-ride; for the urban pedestrian, a five-minute walk. Cometa, founded last year by industry players Intel, IBM, and AT&T, has crafted an ambitious plan […]

It was only a matter of time before doing research in your dorm room or library became as passé as using a card catalog to find a book. It seems that time is nearly upon us. Thanks to technologies created by public-access gateway and software designer Nomadix of Westlake Village, Calif., and deployed by communications […]