study sponsored by the WiFi alliance reveals the following:
WiFi and college choice

90% of college students say Wi-Fi access is as essential to education as classrooms and computers
57% say they wouldn’t go to a college that doesn’t have free Wi-Fi
79% say that without Wi-Fi access, college would be a lot harder
60% agree that widely available Wi-Fi [...]

Posted April 16, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: connectivity, education, networks, social software, wifi. Be the first one.

Corporate networks are defenseless against the growing threat from instant messaging, and the government warns WiFi is insecure and easily sniffed.
Experts suggest we take precautions against the growing risk of p2p software that’s exposing sensitive documents and threatening national security.
Businesses blame security problems on their employees, their mobile devices, and other consumer technologies.
And now we [...]

Posted November 19, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: im, myspace, networking, networks, p2p, security, Technology, threat, threats, wifi. One Comment.

This story in MIT Technology Review scares me.
Instead of letting all computers within the network communicate freely, Ethane is designed so that communication privileges within the network have to be explicitly set; that way, only those activities deemed safe are permitted. “With hindsight, it’s a very obvious thing to do,” McKeown says.
No matter how obvious [...]

Posted April 4, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: anarchistic, anarchists vs. oligarchs, bad idea, dumb networks, ethane, freedom, freedom vs. control, intelligent networks, internet, networks, Nick McKeown, private internet, tcp/ip. 2 Comments.