Wi-Fi
RSS Wi-FiWi-Fi on the rise? 3G advocates fight back
News The UMTS Forum is fighting back against the threat to 3G revenues represented by the rise of public wireless LANs based on the Wi-Fi standard. As well as mobility, the benefits of 3G over... [31 Jul 2002]
US Wi-fi network threatened with closure
News A pioneering US public Wi-fi company is facing closure as it struggles to find financial support for its 100 location network. Silicon Valley-based hereUare Communications is in talks with three... [24 Jul 2002]
BT faces stiff challenge on wireless services
News The wireless internet service providers(WISPs) are hoping to build a business offering wireless internet access in cafés, hotels, airports and conference centres using the increasingly popular 802.11b wireless networking standard, also... [17 Jul 2002]
Wireless LAN on platform 802.11b
News The networks will connect travelling laptop users to the internet using the increasingly popular 802.11b wireless LAN standard, also known as wi-fi or WLAN. Wireless LAN specialist Megabeam is to launch... [15 Jul 2002]
Cisco: 19 airports connected, 100 more to come
News In collaboration with national telcos, mobile operators and specialist wireless players, Cisco has connected 19 airports across the region with Wireless LAN (WLAN) technology based on the 802.11b technology, also known as... [11 Jul 2002]
Intersil offers 'Wi-Fi on the go'
News US wireless semiconductor company Intersil is to incorporate its chipset design into SyChip's WLAN (wireless local area network) card for 'Wi-Fi on the go'. Intersil's PRISM 3 chipset will be added to... [10 Jul 2002]
'Warchalking': All wireless workers will be doing it
News Workers are being encouraged to adopt a system of 'Warchalking' which involves marking the location of Wi-Fi, or wireless networking, nodes. London's mobile workforce may soon be about to add sticks of... [27 Jun 2002]
Wireless LAN - king of the playroom
Comment Wireless LAN, Wi-Fi, AirPort, 802.11b - call it what you will, it's the king of the playroom. Matchbox cars? Star Wars figures? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? How about Lego? A week after Christmas, when... [20 Jun 2002]
Gadget Showdown: My wireless LAN of constant sorrow
Comment The growing popularity of Wi-Fi - or IEEE 802.11b - networks has been one of the stories of the year so far. It's quite cool to be able to download MP3s (only legal ones, natch) on a computer and send... [10 May 2002]
McDonald's offers internet burgers
News Fast-food giant McDonald's is teaming up with Softbank to offer broadband, wireless internet access from its restaurants, just in time for the World Cup. Trials start this month at 20 sites. The aim is to target the ten cities hosting... [07 May 2002]
Ovum View: BT in pole position for wireless LAN
Comment The success of IEEE 802.11b (or Wi-Fi) technology was its fast time to market, which won the battle for mindshare among OEMs and the user community - both consumer and corporate. The momentum of 802.11b... [19 Apr 2002]
BT: Another day, another monopoly
Comment It's not easy being BT. One minute they're a bunch of incompetent fools who are threatening to turn the UK into a Third World country with their dithering and dissimulation. Next minute they're just too damn good, stomping on the... [10 Apr 2002]
Cheat sheet: Mobile and wireless security
Cheat Sheet And don't forget wireless local area networks (WLANs) especially the Wi-Fi or 802.11x standard. OK, let's start with mobile security. Why should I care? I mean there's very little I can do with my phone... [14 Feb 2002]
Re:Viewing 2002 - Mobile and wireless (Part 2)
News For every stumble 3G took, networks based on Wi-Fi - 802.11b and increasingly 802.11a - standards took a leap forward. So there were fears about security and so called drive-by hacking and war-chalking... [31 Dec 2001]
Drive-by hacking: a 21st century crime
Comment Popular WLAN standards such as Wi-Fi - the snappily named IEEE 802.11b flavour - has a range of 60 to 200 metres, or up to 500 metres when boosted. And it's even noticeable now that in your average... [15 Nov 2001]
