Wi-Fi
RSS Wi-FiPeter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Your communications - compromised
Comment Is Wi-Fi much more insecure than wireline networking? So WLAN/Wi-Fi remains reasonably secure for the present and represents about the same level of inconvenience to... [18 Sep 2002]
Wi-Fi hotspot lands at UK airport
News Birmingham International Airport (BIA) has become the first airport in the UK to set up a commercial Wi-Fi hotspot. Ray Savage, head of commercial market development at BIA, said in a statement:... [17 Sep 2002]
Symbol: "The trouble with Wi-Fi..."
News One of the leading makers of wireless LAN (WLAN) access equipment has admitted the technology is too expensive to buy, manage and upgrade. Ray Martino, vice president of Symbol Technologies, said the high cost of wireless technology is... [17 Sep 2002]
Intel - the company you don't already know
Comment Sean Maloney is head of Intel's Communications business and hit one nail on the head this week - he called 802.11 Wi-Fi "a technology with phenomenal promise - like the browser, which democratised... [12 Sep 2002]
Home alone with Bluetooth
News Because Bluetooth chips are cheap to produce, compared with technologies such as Wi-Fi (802.11b), the cost of embedding it into consumer electronics is low. Finch said that the threat of Bluetooth being... [12 Sep 2002]
Is roaming coming to Wi-Fi?
News The popularity of Wi-Fi - which features networking nodes that use the 802.11b wireless technology to broadcast an internet connection over a radius of 300 feet - has spawned a number of independent... [11 Sep 2002]
Intel goes Banias
News Processors in the Banias family will benefit from integrated 802.11a/b dual band WLAN technology - also known as Wi-Fi - allowing wireless networking at speeds of up to 54Mbps and 11Mbps respectively,... [11 Sep 2002]
Faster Wi-Fi standard gets nod
News The most popular is Wi-Fi, or 802.11b, which has been installed in 15 million to 18 million homes and offices worldwide. The 802.11g network is much faster, although it operates in the same radio... [10 Sep 2002]
802.11: How it works
News Known as Wi-Fi HomeRF has had big-name supporters including Motorola, Nokia and Siemens, but some backers, such as Intel, have pulled out support to concentrate exclusively on... [10 Sep 2002]
IoD gets Wi-Fi
News The UK Institute of Directors (IoD) has teamed up with Cisco and Wireless Workplace to offer a Wi-Fi wireless LAN connection to its members when they are at its 123 Pall Mall offices in central London. [06 Sep 2002]
Wi-Fi: coming to a Starbucks near you
News US coffee shop chain Starbucks is launching two trial Wi-Fi hot spots in the UK as part of a global rollout of high-speed wireless Internet services. Starbucks is aiming for... [22 Aug 2002]
Starbucks' megabucks Wi-Fi plans slammed
News High-street coffee shop giant Starbucks is set to offer paid-for Wi-Fi access to caffeine lovers in Portland, Oregon - directly opposite an outfit offering the same service for free. Unlike mobile phone... [20 Aug 2002]
3G - now is not the time to give up
Comment Fixed broadband wireless via Wi-Fi is no replacement, not even on a data-only level - anyone remember Rabbit phones? Should we be preparing a eulogy for 3G? If that's what you're looking for, you've come... [19 Aug 2002]
Wi-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]
