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Cars - Part of Your Wi-Fi Network?

The Network Reserach Lab (NRL) a part of the University of California’s Computer Science Dept is working on turning your car into a Wi-Fi hotpsot. Its stated aim is to “enable communications with “roadside base station” and also between vehicles, for the purposes of safety, driving assistance, and entertainment.” Read more about it here.
Naturally any […]

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Securing SOHO Wireless Networks

An email has just turned up in my inbox with the above heading - having just gone through a process of having to reconfigure my son’s wireless setup (he likes to play) I decided to take a read.
Here’s the full article but be warned it is quite lengthy.
It is summarised at the end with the […]

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Regular Updated Web Content

As someone who has managed a website or two I am always struggling with the propsect of what to include and what to leave out - especially in the area of content.
One thing I’ve just come across and will almost certainly be using is FeedSweep which allows you to add rss type feeds to any […]

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Adrenalin Overload

As part of our visit as many Uni’s as possible to narrow down the choices, the eldest and I have just returned from an 8 day road trip. Part of it involved going to Alton Towers and it was the best day ever.
Weather man said rain (it didn’t), school kids were mostly locked away […]

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Paint In Your Wireless Security

Whilst wandering the info highway I came across this tidbit about Em-Sec who have a new paint, ok they call it a “revolutionary […]