Just as electronics retailer Dixons agreed to front Freeserve to get potential PC buyers through its high-street doors, so the Sun and the Mirror will encourage Joe and Jo Public to get wired so they can read RedTop.com in sufficient numbers to...
Leo Mullin, chairman, president and CEO of Delta Air Lines, called the initiative the "wired workforce" and said the company's workforce will start receiving the computers from July at the rate of 5,000 to 10,000 per month.
The move follows similar 'wired workforce' initiatives from Ford and Delta Airlines. Intel has announced it will provide all its employees with Internet-enabled PCs for their homes. The rollout to over 70,000 staff worldwide will begin in June.
Enable WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy - see below) at the highest level possible and change regularly. Service Set ID and Wired Equivalent Privacy are the two primary built-in security features within the 802.11b WLAN standard.
This extra software will let home notebook users connect to the internet by using a wired home PC as a bridge. While PCs will consume most of Intel's chips, the company's silicon will increasingly pop up in set-top boxes, personal video recorders...
To put the new features in place, Microsoft is hoping to move to a common model for how wired and wireless devices connect to a PC in 2006, around the time that it releases the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn.