Esperence Cafe in the heart of Springvale is now Online! offering a free wireless hotspot to customers. (323 Springvale Rd Springvale VIC 3171, Australia)
Esperence is a comfortable cafe run by Tu Mai and her brother Khiem. The employees are relaxed and friendly people. The ambience inside the café is warm and comfortable. Unassuming, at least. The room is open and not crowded, warm wood walls and floor.
People gather at Esperence to relax, eat, and converse. The coffee is good. I don’t think anyone really notices the brand (Mio). The food is prepared fresh every day: sandwiches, hot lunch plates, and great cappucino.
Melbourne metro is world renown as the best place to get a great cappucino.
Tu Mai was not too sure about adding the wireless hotspot: "Only a few of our customers bring in their laptops. Most of the customers are retired folks from the neighborhood. The few who bring in their laptops usually have their own Internet connections."
We'll have to wait and see if the hotspot brings in more customers, won't we?
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Monday, October 1, 2007
Australia holds up the world
Australia, as a nation, seem intent on retarding the Internet not only for its own citizens, but for as much of the world as possible.
First Australia enacted the most regressive and ignorant copyright laws in the world. Copyright laws more indicative of communist or tyrranical regimes than anything in the free world, and now Australia's CSIRO will stand in the way of the spreading internet access using wireless technology.
Burma recently cut off Internet access for its citizens in order to prevent news of the oppressive regime getting out. Controlling access to the Internet by price and speed isn't that far behind.
What does Australia have to hide?
Yes, the world knows access to the Net in Australia is abysmal. And the world knows the Howard government is rabidly Internet-phobic.
A few days ago...
Technology analyst Burton Group senior analyst Paul DeBeasi thinks 802.11n is good enough to replace the wired Internet. (Does 802.11n spell the 'end of Ethernet'?) He began looking into the question when he heard a growing number of clients asking whether it was time to discontinue wired LAN deployments for connecting clients.
Internet-phobic Australia (or at least the Australian government) has the answer: No. CSIRO has the patent, and they aren't going to let anyone use it.
In fact, the CSIRO has launched lawsuits against Buffalo Technology based on its patent (USPatent US Patent 5487069 ) to halt not only Buffalo Technology but the IEEE Standards board from issuing the standard. The much anticipated release had recently been moved up's n from November 2008 to March 2008.
IEEE is requesting a Letter of Assurance from the CSIRO that it will not sue any entity that develops technology based on the contents of the patent. From an internal memo sent from the Standards Board to 802.11 chairperson Stuart Kerry:
First Australia enacted the most regressive and ignorant copyright laws in the world. Copyright laws more indicative of communist or tyrranical regimes than anything in the free world, and now Australia's CSIRO will stand in the way of the spreading internet access using wireless technology.
Burma recently cut off Internet access for its citizens in order to prevent news of the oppressive regime getting out. Controlling access to the Internet by price and speed isn't that far behind.
What does Australia have to hide?
Yes, the world knows access to the Net in Australia is abysmal. And the world knows the Howard government is rabidly Internet-phobic.
A few days ago...
Technology analyst Burton Group senior analyst Paul DeBeasi thinks 802.11n is good enough to replace the wired Internet. (Does 802.11n spell the 'end of Ethernet'?) He began looking into the question when he heard a growing number of clients asking whether it was time to discontinue wired LAN deployments for connecting clients.
Internet-phobic Australia (or at least the Australian government) has the answer: No. CSIRO has the patent, and they aren't going to let anyone use it.
In fact, the CSIRO has launched lawsuits against Buffalo Technology based on its patent (USPatent US Patent 5487069 ) to halt not only Buffalo Technology but the IEEE Standards board from issuing the standard. The much anticipated release had recently been moved up's n from November 2008 to March 2008.
IEEE is requesting a Letter of Assurance from the CSIRO that it will not sue any entity that develops technology based on the contents of the patent. From an internal memo sent from the Standards Board to 802.11 chairperson Stuart Kerry:
“The IEEE-SA Standards Board will not make any final determination without first hearing your explanation of why the 802.11 working group is proposing IEEE-SA SASB approval of a draft standard without a response to a pending request for an [Letter of Assurance] for a known potentially Essential Patent Claim, but any standard submitted on that state of facts is at serious risk of not being approved.”
Don't hold your breath.
Australia is in the middle of a battle to implement a weaker standard, WiMax, for its citizens. Apparently, even if it means keeping the Internet from millions of people throughout the world, the CSIRO wants to force the weaker standard on the world out of plain greed.
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