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Dec. 12, 2005 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Network World , 12/08/2005
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GOOD: Battery boost

The Wi-Fi Alliance last week began attacking one of the main problems with wireless LAN phones by certifying features to extend battery life. The industry group is adding a label it calls WMM (Wireless Multimedia) Power Save, which identifies products that have reduced the power needed to use multimedia applications over wireless LANs.

BAD: Someone had to ruin it

The community-edited Wikipedia online encyclopedia is now requiring people to register before submitting articles after it ran a piece recently that falsely implicated a man in the Kennedy assassination, according to Associated Press. People can still edit articles without registering.

UGLY: Nature isn't the only thing calling

More and more Americans are logging wirelessly into the Internet - from their bathrooms. That's one of the nuggets from this year's Internet Report by the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future. Over half of those using home wireless, used it from the bathroom, according to the report.

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