It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way......
Apologies to Charles Dickens for appropriating his classic opening paragraph but the words could also be the operations guide for DigitalBeat.Com's former web hosting company. The web host was acquired by a larger company about a year ago and seems to be on a mission to trim its customer base. Read More...
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This is more of a quick note than a regular blog entry but I couldn't resist posting this since DigitalBeat is in the business of enabling WiFi solutions but it's worth a post just to note that the tide has probably turned on WiFi connectivity and cellphones.
The current (Feb 14th, 2008) NY Times Circuits article Trying to capture that iPhone flair talks about this weeks Mobile World Congress, which is a major cellphone industry trade show and gathering. The focus in past years was on phones that flip, twist, shoot photos and walk the dog (well maybe not the last one).
This year the cellphone manufacturers, to no ones great surprise, are going after the iPhone. This means slim, sexy, touch screens AND built in WiFi. You can read the article if you want to see where the industry is heading (at least for the rest of 2008), but the WiFi angle is clearly heating up.
If there was any doubt before about the value and growing number of WiFi capable devices out there then the NY Times article should dispel any remaining doubts.
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Hello and welcome to the DigitalBeat Openhouse blo. For the most part these blogs will cover small business issues and making productive use of technology. Our client base is real estate professionals and the small retail business. To the extent that a real estate professional is often a small business operation as well, there is some synergy between the two definitions and I hope the blog will be both topical and informative. A good way to start off the Openhouse blog, is with a quick introduction to how wireless internet access works since DigitalBeat's flagship "LocalHost" product is wireless based on this technology, this blog entry may satisfy some questions on "how does the technology work"?
The wired path to Wireless
Generally, in order to connect to the internet you need a wired
connection. The wired connection up until 10 years or so ago, required a phone line, either switched (which means your regular home phone line) or dedicated. Dedicated connections like Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) can work on top of your plain old telephone service (POTS) or have a literally dedicated phone line connection to a location at your local phone company office. Today, while DSL still exists, many consumers and small businesses get their Internet Service through their cable wire. Up until a few years ago you either connected your computer directly to your ISP's equiipment (router/modem) or if you were a business (or technically adept homeowner) you would connect your computer to a wired Local area Network jack (lthey look like a slightly larger than normal telephone jack). If there was no computer jack nearby (or your spouse did not want to see cables running over the floor/ceiling) then you lived without a network connection at that location. Then came wireless Read More...
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