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friederb | 1 Mar 2008 13:44
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Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM 2008)

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 > Subject: WiCOM 2008 Call for Papers: Sept. 19-21, 2008, Dalian, China
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 >       The 4th International Conference on Wireless Communications,
 >              Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM 2008)
 >                            CALL FOR PAPERS
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 >                 Dalian, China     October 12-14, 2008
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 > This conference is sponsored by IEEE Communications Society,IEEE AP-S
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 > The conference will be held in Dalian, the bright pearl of northern
 > China. Dalian is regarded as a romantic beach city full of vigor and
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 > Olympic Games will be held.
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Armin Medosch | 27 Mar 2008 11:00
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A new public wireless interface: Street Radio by Hivenetworks

sorry for x-posting

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A new public wireless interface: Hivenetworks successfully launch
'Street Radio' in Southampton

On Friday the 14th of March 2008 ten 'street radio' nodes went live in
Southampton narrowcasting Hidden Histories -- stories from Southamptons
Oral History Archive selected and arranged to correspond with the
location of the 10 nodes. 

Participants started to meet at around 11 am at the gallery cafe in
Southampton's Civic Centre. There they received maps of the Hidden
Histories trail and those who needed them could borrow little FM radio
receivers. 

[...]

On a tight budget and close deadline, we were very happy to be able to
deliver. On 10 light poles in the centre of Southampton on Above Bar
street weather proof little boxes have been mounted which contain
repurposed commercially available hardware. The unique hard- software
combination implemented by Hivenetworks is playing soundfiles in a loop
on FM radio on 89.0 MHtz. The very low powered USB FM transmitters are
said to have a range of about 10 to 15 meters. Thus, around each
lighhtpole in a radius of 30 meters approximately you can hear one
particular radio art piece created by me with excerpts from the Oral
History Archive. The boxes also scan the surroundings for mobile phones
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