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O nascimento da Vex

Em meados de 1998, Roberto Ugolini Neto entrou de sócio em uma empresa americana chamada Core Strategies, baseada em Irvining na California. No fim da subida que levou todos a primeira grande bolha da internet, a empresa trabalhava com soluções de tecnologia bastante inovadoras, uma das oportunidades que eles estudavam na época era o caso de uma empresa chamada Wayport, que havia observado um grande problema no mercado de notebooks e resolveu colocar a mão na massa para solucionar. Eles queriam dar mobilidade aos notebooks fazendo com que eles se conectassem a internet sem fios. Como não existia Wi-Fi nesta…

iPhone goes free in Vex network

Before iphone officially release in Brazil, the number of devices available in the market was around 200.000, incredibly it was representing almost 5% of devices in our network. Now that iphone is officially released, the number of devices is now 400.000, and that’s the number of people Vex would like to invite to Vex for free! Today was only the first day and yet 2000 devices came thru! Find your VexSpot and Vex for free: http://www.vexcorp.com

Mobile Hotspot – Wi-Fi in your car, bus, taxi cab, …

Today we launched our first pilot of the VexBox Mobile Hotspot solution. It’s our linux distribution with a new hardware that can take the internet from 3.5G, 3G, EDGE or GPRS, whatever is available and faster. It can be used in places where fiber doesn’t reach or buses, taxi cabs, cars, … It’s been months doing reverse engineering to understand how the hardware works, also writing the device drivers for a chip that is not perfectly designed and well, we made it! October 1st is the official launch date. Congratulations for all the team, I know you all worked very…

Hacking commercial wireless

Lately a number of blogs posted comments on a very old post, dated 2006 about how to hack a commercial wireless, goes like this: “I continued to try a couple other things, like checking if they eventually forgot some ports like 21 (ftp) or 110 (pop3). But no, all of them were properly blocked. After a lot of unsuccesfull attempts, I had some intuition telling me to check how they handle pictures. Without any hope of success I typed http://www.google.com/.jpg into my browser’s adress bar, and to my big surprise I saw the page you see when you follow the…