* Wireless directory draws cheers, jeers * Agere touts promise of 250M bit/sec WLAN * Key Microsoft patch tool delayed again * Holding company looking to buy significant amount of MCI stock * Today on Layer 8
Is a wireless phone directory a welcome convenience or a “dumb idea”? Five of the six major wireless carriers favor the directory and are moving ahead with plans to put it in place by early next year. But one is holding out, and critics of the initiative are raising privacy concerns. Wireless directory draws cheers, jeers http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/071204wsdir.html?net
Is a wireless phone directory a welcome convenience or a “dumb idea”? Five of the six major wireless carriers favor the directory and are moving ahead with plans to put it in place by early next year. But one is holding out, and critics of the initiative are raising privacy concerns.
Wireless directory draws cheers, jeers
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/071204wsdir.html?net
Agere touts promise of 250M bit/sec WLAN
Getting 250M bit/sec to move between two wireless LAN devices is a huge jump from the 20M bit/sec available today. Yet Agere Systems is proposing to do just that – with a few extra antennae and larger radio channels.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0712agere.html?net
Key Microsoft patch tool delayed again
Microsoft Monday said that the ship date on its Windows Update Services patch management tool has slipped yet again, this time into the first half of 2005.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0713wuspatch.html?net
Holding company looking to buy significant amount of MCI stock
MCI this week announced that conglomerate Leucadia National is trying to buy at least half of the company’s stock.
https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0712mciln.html?net
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