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Startup offers tiny coolers to target chip hot spots
Nextreme, a North Carolina startup, announced technology that integrates tiny coolers into chip packages and targets regions that need extra cooling. An excerpt from Ars Technica: By designing a processor's on-chip network of pillars and conducting metal layers around the idea that some pairs of copper...
Tags: Hot Spot, Laser, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2008-01-26
QuickBooks users warned to stay off public Wi-Fi hot spots
Intuit, the makers of the popular accounting package QuickBooks, have warned users not to use the software at public Wi-Fi hot spots. A serious bug that was supposedly patched last week apparently manifests under certain conditions in Wi-Fi hot spots. Excerpt from CNET News.com: ...
Tags: Hot Spot, Intuit QuickBooks, Wireless LANs, Internet, Desktops, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Finance, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2008-01-03
A Cross-Layer Approach for Per-Station Fairness in TCP Over WLANs
This paper investigates the issue of per-station fairness in TCP over IEEE 802.11-compliant Wireless Local Area Networks WLANs, especially in Wi-Fi hot spot. It is asserted that the hot spot suffers from the unfairness among stations in exploiting the wireless medium. The source of this unfairness is analyzed from two...
Tags: Seoul National University, Hot Spot, WLAN, TCP, Tcp/Ip, Wireless LANs, LANs, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless
White papers 2007-06-16
Photos: A tech trek in Beijing
From cube farms to traffic backups to PC malls, Beijing has all the markings of a high-tech hot spot. Wait, PC malls?
Tags: Desktops, Beijing, hot spot, PC, backup, photograph
Image galleries 2007-04-23
Should providers of unsecure Wi-Fi hotspots be fined?
I'm sure we have all seen groups of college students, business people, teenagers, even senior citizens all using their laptops to surf the web using the wireless networks available in places like Starbucks, public libraries, shopping malls, and other retail stores. These wireless networks employ no encryption or security...
Tags: laptop computer, security, Why Me Worry?, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi hotspot, wireless, wireless network security
Discussion threads 2006-09-20
Photos: 'Da Vinci Code' hot spots
From Westminster Abbey to the Louvre's "Mona Lisa," have fun exploring the locations of "The Da Vinci Code."
Tags: Code, Da Vinci, Da Vinci Code, hot spot, photograph
Image galleries 2006-05-19
Images: Google maps life on Mars
The search engine maps the Red Planet and lets you tour all the hot spots.
Tags: SEARCH, hot spot, Google Maps, search engine, Google Inc.
Image galleries 2006-03-13
how to get a true wifi speed at hotspot
I have a wirless conection with a conection of 54mbs but when i download or just surf my speeds are below 56kbs most speeds run 12-14 kbs. how can I get better speeds from my hot spot?Switch to a wired network to get better speeds or stand next to the...
Tags: conection, hot spot, HotSpot, jeffreymoore357@..., Wi-Fi, windows
Q&A 2005-07-12
Be aware of this wireless Internet access vulnerability
If a public hot spot advertises itself using a specific SSID, a hacker can set up another 802.11 access point using the same SSID. Here are some things to keep in mind concerning wireless Internet access. Over the past few years, wireless LANs WLANs have moved...
Tags: IEEE 802.11, SSID, WLAN, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Jonathan Yarden, LANs, WLAN Access, Wireless Internet Access, wireless, hot spot, wireless Internet, access point, public hot spot, Internet Security Focus Newsletter, Vulnerability, Internet
Technical articles 2005-05-19
Wi-Fi worries: Unauthorized hot spots and rogue warriors
IT professionals who administer wireless networks often find that, in addition to securing their organizations' own Wi-Fi access points, they must also police rogue wireless hot spots that are brought in by employees or students. Such rogue hot spots can conflict with an organization's own wireless networks, causing headaches for...
Tags: Network, Hot Spot, Wireless Network, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
Webcasts 2004-12-15

Additional Resources

The Hills Swim and Tennis Club Case Study
The client was on the fence about whether to install a "hot spot" at The Hills Swim and Tennis Club in Oakland, California. Would guests want to connect to e-mail and the Internet while relaxing and playing at the club? What if competing clubs offered the service and he didn't?...
Tags: Netopia Inc., Internet, E-mail, Online Communications
Case studies
Metreon Case Study: Netopia's Hot Spot Unwires Sony's Metreon
Sony's Metreon, San Francisco's "mallternative" in the South of Market neighborhood, attracts a crowd as diverse as the city it calls home. Visiting conventioneers from the adjacent Moscone Center, tourists of all ages and nationalities and curious Bay Area locals all flock to the modern San Francisco landmark to experience...
Tags: Sony Corp., Netopia Inc., Business Services, Wireless LANs, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Wireless
Case studies
Application of Sectorised Antennas and STBC to Increase the Capacity of Hot Spot WLANs in an Interworked WLAN/3G Network
At present, Wireless Local Area Networks WLANs supporting broadband multimedia communication are being developed around the world. Standards include HIPERLAN/2, and the IEEE 802.11 family. These systems provide channel adaptive data rates up to 54 Mbps over short ranges up to 200 meters. It is likely that WLANs will become...
Tags: WLAN, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
White papers 2005-08-01
Force Defult Webpage?
I was wondering if anyone could help me out with any information on to setup some type of system that when users connect to a access point it would prompt them with a policy and also direct the user to a specific web site kind of like when your on...
Tags: net-tech@...
Q&A 2006-07-13
USE AN ADSL ROUTER AS HOT SPOT OF ANOTHER ADSL ROUTeR
I have an adsl router SPEED TOUCH 585i with ip 192.168.1.254 which is connected to the adsl line.I have connected a pc and i am connected to internet OK.I want to connect 1 ethernet port of this routr with an ETHERNET PORT of a ZYXEL wifi adsl router(...
Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, Ethernet, NETWORKING, WANs, jkiriou@..., router, ZyXEL Communications Corp., ZyXEL Router
Discussion threads 2007-10-26
Hot Games Pack (zip)
The Hot Games Pack contains a bundle of high-quality games that are easy to learn, and difficult to master. These fun-filled games provide a refreshing break from your work, making you more productive when you return to your computer tasks. Hot Games Pack includes: Alien Terrain, Battle City, Hot Checkers,...
Tags: Hot Games Pack, Games, Personal Technology
Software downloads 2007-08-20
Register Hot Key (zip)
Define a key combination as Hot Key Register Hot Keys and launch programs/open files with with Hot Key. The program sits in system tray. Remove Hot Keys whenever not required. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
Tags: System Tray
Software downloads 2007-10-11
Hot Keyboard (exe)
Hot Keyboard assigns to hot keys such repetitive tasts as application launches, opening web-pages, establishing and terminating dial-up connections, etc. Hot Keyboard can quickly change sound volumes and can control CD-player and Winamp. Its many powerful features and its ease of use will make Hot Keyboard one of your favorite...
Tags: Hot Keyboard, Keyboards, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
Software downloads 2005-07-19
Photos: Great Red Spot eats 'Baby'
A recently discovered hurricane-like storm on Jupiter's surface, called Baby Red Spot, was sucked up by the Great Red Spot. by CNET News.com
Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, CNET News.com, news, Jupiter
Image galleries 2008-07-31
NSI Plays to Sweet Spot of Opportunity: Managed Services for SMBs
Managed services is an opportunity for IBM Business Partners in hot pursuit of growth and profitability through the small and medium-size business market. Growing more than three times faster than the overall SMB market, managed services is a sweet spot of opportunity. In this case study, vice president at NSI,...
Tags: Managed Services, Network Solutions Inc., Small And Medium Business, IBM Corp., Smb/Sme, It Services
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