Earthlink Buys OmniSky

sydney writes: "Earthlink has decided to go out and buy the remains of OmniSky's wireless network. According to this story, Earthlink has included these plans under its 'Earthlink Everywhere' initiative. Funny thing is, they even admit the wireless, constant streaming idea isn't going to take off anytime soon. The price of stocks even fell 40 cents. At least though, old OmniSky customers will have an ISP again, for now anyway."

Re:The probably future of wireless

[Anonymous Coward]

At least one company, PocketDBA [pocketdba.com], is thinking this way. It couldn't be too hard to expand this technology to include some kind of shell.

Actually, I just checked out their site while writing this and their SecureSA product does exactly what you're looking for. Of course, it's expensive, but it proves that the techonology does exist.

PS - No affiliation with PocketDBA, just saw an ad in a magazine.

Re:Big Fishes

[Anonymous Coward]

If you can handle that Earthlink is owned partly by Scientology.

Re:The probably future of wireless

[Phork]

well, for about a year when i had a wireless modem on my palm pilot(att cdpd service), i used an ssh client to login to a shell on one of my boxes and check email and do other things from there. it worked fairly well.