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Avanquest Connection Manager Software Available for Free : Boy Genius Report
Amongst the many processes that the Windows OS has a knack for making particularly annoying is the process of managing connections. Every time you arrive at a new location, be it a hotel, cafe, airport, conference room, public hotspot or otherwise, you need to search for available connections, maybe tweak some settings, add the connection to your approved list and so on. There are a few companies that currently offer solutions to simplify this process, but how many do you know of that offer said solution for free? Avanquest announced this morning that it’s Connection Manager software, typically carrying a $30 price of entry, is now available absolutely free of charge from its website. In a nutshell, Connection Manager does everything for you. It will find available connections (WiFi with WEP, WPA1 and WPA2 support, LAN, ADSL and even WiMAX), connect and configure your security, printer, VPN and other applicable settings on the fly. It will then store the new connection profile for a near-instant reconnect if and when you return to the location. Avanquest offers a bunch of personal productivity, multimedia, business and educational applications that are worth checking out. In the meantime hit the read link to snag the Connection Manager software and make your travels far more tolerable by giving yourself one less thing to worry about. Amongst the many processes that the Windows OS has a knack for making particularly annoying is the process of managing connections. Ev... more
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Il wimax arriva ad Amsterdam
Fatica ancora ad affermarsi il WiMax, la nuova tecnologia per la connettività wireless ad ampio raggio per la trasmissione di Internet. Le complesse procedure per l'approvazione degli standard e dei dispositivi idonei a captare il nuovo segnale stanno, infatti, rallentando l'introduzione del WiMax in buona parte del mondo. Eppure, come spesso avviene, anche in questo caso non manca l'eccezione.
Una rete commerciale operante ad Amsterdam ha infatti messo a disposizione dei propri clienti la possibilità di collegarsi al Web utilizzando un network WiMax. L'operatore in questione è la società Worldmax, specializzata nella trasmissione dei dati via wireless a banda larga in buona parte dei Paesi Bassi. Al momento il servizio viene offerto solamente nel centro storico della città di Amsterdam, ma i dirigenti di Worldmax confidano in una rapida espansione della loro nuova rete, per ora all'avanguardia in tutta Europa, in buona parte del paese.
Il nuovo servizio offerto dalla società olandese potrebbe costituire una minaccia per i tradizionali gestori di telefonia mobile come KPN, Vodafone e T-Mobile, che al momento puntano maggiormente sulla già diffusa tecnologia 3G per fornire Internet in mobilità ai loro clienti. La banda larga consentita dal WiMax sembra essere deputata a fare una stretta concorrenza alle reti di terza generazione implementate negli ultimi anni nell'area di Amsterdam.
La creazione di un network esteso in tutta la nazione non sarà comunque semplice, né tanto meno economica. Secondo il CEO di Worldmax, Jeanine van der Vlist, costruire una intera rete WiMax su base nazionale equivale a implementare un tradizionale network per la telefonia mobile, con tutti gli svantaggi del caso. L'installazione della piattaforma tecnologica e la gestione dei ripetitori diviene particolarmente complessa quando ci si confronta con un progetto su larga scala. Secondo le prime stime, per coprire l'intero territorio dei Paesi Bassi, Worldmax dovrebbe installare circa 3000 punti di accesso, con costi di centinaia di milioni di dollari.
Nonostante l'ingente spesa prospettata dalle prime proiezioni, Worldmax sembra essere determinata a perseguire i propri obiettivi. Forte di numerosi investitori, tra cui spicca il produttore di chip Intel, la società olandese valuterà gli esiti della prima rete sperimentale installata ad Amsterdam per studiare le prossime mosse utili per la sua espansione sul territorio. Worldmax offrirà i suoi servizi ad appena 20 Euro al mese per una connessione senza limiti di tempo né di dati scaricati. Fatica ancora ad affermarsi il WiMax, la nuova tecnologia per la connettività wireless ad ampio raggio per la trasmissione di Internet... more -
Amsterdam gets Europe's first mobile Wimax network
A commercial network launched in Amsterdam on Tuesday is the first in Europe to use a mobile version of the Wimax standard to allow users to surf the Web at high speeds while on the move, operator Worldmax said.
he broadband wireless network is aimed at competing with telecoms operators KPN, Vodafone, and T-Mobile .
It is similar to using a mobile phone network and differs from networks using earlier Wimax technology which required users to be stationary.
Worldmax, whose investors include Intel and Greenfield Capital, would not reveal financial or subscriber targets. A commercial network launched in Amsterdam on Tuesday is the first in Europe to use a mobile version of the Wimax standard to allow us... more -
Access your Smart Bro Motorola Canopy Page and Speed up your Wireless Internet Con...
Why will i wanna go and access my Motorola Canopy Page, you ask? Well, it can help you to speed up and manage your Smart Bro internet connection or any internet connection actually that uses the Motorola Canopy Lite or even the older Canopy. By default, your Internet Service Provider may have disabled access to it Why will i wanna go and access my Motorola Canopy Page, you ask? Well, it can help you to speed up and manage your Smart Bro internet ... more
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Global Dreams for a Wireless Web
SITTING on the porch at Finca Torrenova, his 800-acre retreat on this Mediterranean island, Martin Varsavsky ticks off the credentials of the group of Internet entrepreneurs finishing lunch at a nearby table.
“He has 40 million uniques, he has 50 million, and he has 8 million,” Mr. Varsavsky says, referring to the number of visitors to Web sites owned by his guests — many of whom are also business associates and have joined him for several days of brainstorming about the digital future.
These days, commercial victory on the Internet is all about scale, and Mr. Varsavsky, a 48-year-old from Argentina, can be forgiven for speaking longingly and in detail about his peers’ achievements. No stranger to success — he has had a tidy crop of new media and telecommunications hits since the 1990s — he is still struggling to bring his newest Internet venture to fruition.
Three years ago, aiming to create a global wireless network, he founded FON, a company based in Madrid that wants to unlock the potential power of the social Internet. FON’s gamble is that Internet users will share a portion of their wireless connection with strangers in exchange for access to wireless hotspots controlled by others.
The swaps, in theory, would allow “Foneros” to have ubiquitous, global wireless access while traveling for business or pleasure. But despite $55.2 million in backing from such corporate heavyweights as Google and BT, the former British Telecom, as well as newer enterprises like Skype and a handful of venture capital firms, FON and Mr. Varsavsky are still missing a crucial ingredient: scale.
At the moment, there are just 830,000 registered Foneros around the world, and only 340,000 active Wi-Fi hotspots run FON software. Because it’s built upon the concept of sharing Wi-Fi access, FON works well only if there are Foneros everywhere.
And as he struggles to expand the FON network, Mr. Varsavsky faces particular hurdles now that the Internet’s commercial side has reached a crossroads. Born a few decades ago as an anarchic, digital version of a barn-raising, the wireless Internet is now a battleground between two giant technology consortiums seeking to rein in the Web’s chaotic openness in favor of creating uniform, global access built upon wireless data networks.
The two camps, known as WiMax and L.T.E., for “long-term evolution,” are both top-down, highly structured approaches that will cost billions of dollars to build and may close a door on some of the architectural openness that led to the rapid growth of the Internet.
But their potential advantage is that closed standards can encourage the kind of growth that offers more access to mainstream consumers and business users, as occurred when Microsoft imposed a measure of conformity on software development.
For his part, Mr. Varsavsky hopes that FON can offer a middle ground — deploying the original, bottom-up strengths of the early Internet movement and at the same time wedding them to a more formal, corporate approach to expansion.
Although FON faces huge obstacles in realizing those ambitions, the company also has a growing number of devotees.
“The wireless Internet market today is fragmented and complex — it can be accessed through 3G operators, through WiMax, through private hotspots, through paid hotspots and through corporate networks,” said Michael Jackson, a partner at Mangrove Capital in London and a former FON board member. “In summary, it is a nightmare for a consumer. FON can and will change this.”
But others have their doubts. SITTING on the porch at Finca Torrenova, his 800-acre retreat on this Mediterranean island, Martin Varsavsky ticks off the credentials... more -
EOLO - le antenne WiMax geolocalizzate su mappa
Eolo è un nuovo operatore WiMax che ha vinto (tra gli altri) le aste per trasmettere internet a banda largha attraverso questa tecnologia. In quessta mappa sarà possibile scoprire dove sono localizzate e dove verranno localizzate tutte le antenne WiMax di questo operatore che ha come targhet preferenziale il nord italia. Eolo è un nuovo operatore WiMax che ha vinto (tra gli altri) le aste per trasmettere internet a banda largha attraverso questa tecnolo... more
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