With people logging in and out without offering identities, it becomes virtually impossible for groups such as the RIAA to track down the identity of copyright infringers using these nodes. Wi-Fi access points don't, and that makes it difficult for...
XML does require more bandwidth and compute power than other more specific messaging protocols and this would probably have killed it 10 years ago. To take a specific example, WalMart understood the difficulty of communicating effectively with its...
This is great in terms of improving automation, and the routing of information. On the other hand, ad hoc, unstructured collaboration can dramatically improve personal productivity, reducing the time spent searching for information or chasing answers.
With France Telecom's test that functionality will be added to the wireless access points, allowing them to communicate with each other, as well as communicating with users via the Wi-Fi connection. In mesh networks, some of the nodes are given...
The technology could potentially dovetail with the aim of Car2Car, a consortium established by car manufacturers such as Audi, BMW and Renault, to agree a brand-agnostic European industrial standard for "future communicating cars".
The network density compares favourably to other cities around the world that have also embraced citywide wi-fi, such as Taipei in Taiwan, experts say. A mesh network can make connections from one node to another rather than relying on each...