Marcelo Toledo

startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia

junho 2007

Writers created WiMAX

I want a base station that will cover a very large area, including indoors and will serve hundreds of users at the same time with wireless broadband internet. This is the dream solution, now let me tell you what WiMAX is. The myth is that WiMAX will deliver 70 Mbit/s, over 48 km (30 miles). Each of them is true individually, given ideal circumstances. Either you have high bandwidth or long reach, not both simultaneously. The limitation is that like any other wireless system, available bandwidth is shared between users in a given radio sector. If you have a base…

Do you buy spam?

Once again today I heard people complaining about Spam, to be honest, I thought they were talking about canned meat, but no, spam still a big issue in these people’s life. We experienced that blacklists, authentication and old fashioned forms will never block spam. Spammers already learned that, if we do this, they have to find another way of sending it, so they simply hack into your account and send it from there. Spam exists because makes total sense to use it as a marketing tool, it’s cheap, viable, easy to find a company to send it for you, and…