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Monday, July 22, 2002
http://www.80211-planet.com/news/article/0,4000,1481_1429571,00.html Heavyweights Pump Up Wi-Fi Brian Morrissey While it began as the playground of scruffy technology buffs, stringing together free community networks in tech havens like Seattle and San Francisco, the booming 802.11 industry garnered the attention of the biggest names in tech and wireless this week Monday's announcement by Microsoft that it would roll out an array of 802.11 products was short on details. The company talked fuzzily about a "new line of wireless broadband networking products," but the fact that Microsoft is interested in getting involved in the low-margin hardware industry led some industry analysts to conclude Microsoft wants to drive 802.11 adoption. Just a day later, word leaked that Intel, IBM, some Internet service providers (ISPs), and a bevy of wireless carriers are mulling the creation of a joint nationwide wireless service that would tie together the hodgepodge of 802.11 service areas....
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