The Day The Telco Blinked

Date Published by Rob Kelley on April 5, 2009 under News   Tags Tags: ,    Comments Comments Off

An open Internet is what keeps us productive and competitive. Skype lets people make cheap phone calls. Video sharing lets people do web-conferences. Follow and join this fight.


BREAKOUT! Festival in Fall 2009

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on January 6, 2009 under Art, News   Tags Tags: , , , , ,    Comments Comments Off

The Architectural League of New York has chosen BREAKOUT! Escape from the Office as one of the big exhibition pieces for their “Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City” in 2009.
NYCwireless is one of the key team members of BREAKOUT!, and Anthony Townsend (one of our co-founders) is chairing the exhibit. The rest of the board (including [...]


NYCwireless Testimony for NY City Council Hearing: The Regulation and Use of the Unallocated Portion of the Radio Spectrum, Also Known as White Spaces

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on September 29, 2008 under News   Tags Tags: , , , , , , ,    Comments 1 Comment »

This is the testimony that I gave and submitted to the NY City Council:
NYCwireless New York City Council Testimony on White Spaces (pdf)
NYCwireless Testimony to the New York City Council
Regulation and Use of the Unallocated Portion of the Radio Spectrum, Also Known as White Spaces
Ladies and Gentlemen of the New York City Council and friends [...]


Follow Up from NY:MIEG Event — Wireless, Wimax & Mobile 2008 and Beyond: The Future of Communications

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on January 18, 2008 under News   Tags Tags: , , , ,    Comments Comments Off

Laura and I had a lot of fun talking on the panel at the NY:MIEG event Wireless, Wimax & Mobile 2008 and Beyond: The Future of Communications. We talked about Wi-Fi, WiMax, and Cell networks, as well as devices and content. Laura talked about her research about how people use hotspots. Needless to say, lots [...]


CBS MobileZone Usage Report

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on January 13, 2008 under News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments 3 Comments »

Our own Klaus Ernst (he’s an active NYCwireless member) reports on some of availability of the CBS MobileZone on Wi-Fi Net News.
The 47th Street Subway entrance has the “CBS mobile ((ZONE)) surf the web here. Free!” orange banner (see picture) but there was no hotspot. Maybe next time.

Well, it’s not hopeless, but CBS is [...]


Android Will Open the Mobile Space in 2008

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on January 4, 2008 under News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments Comments Off

Google’s Android mobile OS is an interesting new technology that will open up the mobile space in 2008. Bill Sobel blogged about the platform in conjunction with our Jan 17th panel “Wireless, Wimax, Mobile and Beyond: A Look at the Future Communications“.
Android will enable a multitude of new mobile applications. Along with the iPhone’s soon [...]


Special Event — Wireless, Wimax & Mobile 2008 and Beyond: The future of Communications

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on December 31, 2007 under Events   Tags Tags:    Comments 1 Comment »

Bill Sobel, founder of NY:MIEG (New York: Media Information Exchange Group), has organized a very exciting and informative event on looking at where we are and where we are going with wireless communications technologies. The event, Wireless, Wimax, Mobile and Beyond: A Look at the Future of Communications, will take place on January 17 at [...]


Call for Submissions: S19.Afflatus.Project

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on March 22, 2005 under Art   Tags Tags: ,    Comments Comments Off

S19.Afflatus Project is an online gallery dedicated to promoting visual and interactive art in mobile devices, such as cellphones, Pocket PC, Palm and convergence devices. We hope to explore art, design, interactivity, ergonomics, technology and experimentation with mobile devices and the audience.
If you are a artist creating art for mobile deivces, such as cell phones, [...]