So this is what I’ve been up to for the last year; building this pretty much from scratch (rebuilding it in fact) and getting it to the launched stage. Everything from low-level C code for custom servers, to custom freeRADIUS modules (again in C) to the MacOS and iPhone/iPod Touch clients I’m writing at the moment (Will, if you’re reading this, I’m finally using Objective C again 
), and all the project management and dogsbody stuff you’d expect.
Fingers crossed it works properly 
METAKALL USER TRIAL KICKS OFF IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
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METAKALL USER TRIAL KICKS OFF IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
Dublin, April 10 — Metakall, a WiFi authentication and metering system, has begun its second user trial in Trinity College Dublin this week for students and staff, allowing access to the internet from mobile devices and allowing them to make phone calls over the internet in cooperation with FreeSpeech.ie.
Metakall, which is funded by an Enterprise Ireland grant, may be among the first of 300 companies to spin out under the new joint TCD/UCD Innovation Academy announced last month by the two colleges along with the Taoiseach, Tanaiste, Minster for Finance and Minister for Education.
Headed up by Dr.Hitesh Tewari, an expert in internet micropayments, the project has a working system but is still working on usability, testing, and on creating new clients for different platforms. Several companies including Eircom and O2 have expressed interest in the technology developed by Metakall, and talks are ongoing regarding a possible installation in San Jose.
The Metakall system was initially trialled in August last year in TCD. Significant changes have since been made to the technology, which consists of a client which runs on the user’s laptop or mobile phone, connecting them to the wireless internet system on the … Read the rest
