wlan in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Robots with guns
Comment Written at a quiet café on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK and dispatched to silicon.com via a corporate WLAN Even before I was born the 'Three Laws of Robotics' had been voiced by Isaac Asimov through his short stories... [07 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: What is city-wide wi-fi?
Comment Amateur wi-fi can mean anything from someone leaving their home WLAN on for others (let's not get hung up here on whether that's bandwidth sharing on purpose or because someone doesn't understand how to lock down their... [17 Jul 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Moving office
Comment For sure I had put a lot of time and effort into testing and installing the LAN, WLAN, broadband, telephones, television and radio feeds beforehand. Written at my hotel in Orlando during a weekend stopover between... [11 Jul 2007]
Unwired: Welcome to our LAN
Comment Most organisations shy away from giving even temporary corporate WLAN access to visitors, citing legitimate concerns such as security, breach of regulations and additional workload for the IT staff. It's leading to a new... [15 Jan 2007]
Motorola gets serious about the enterprise
Comment The acquisition of Symbol is focused around Motorola's belief that everything is going wireless and gives Motorola a complementary strength in enterprise WLAN to their portfolio of other wireless technologies, which... [21 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The search for spectrum
Comment It could be hard to work out the details but I don't see why unused broadcast radio and TV channels cannot be used for WLAN applications. Pics compiled on the road between Zurich and Southampton. Copy dispatched via... [10 Oct 2005]
Leader: Mobile rollouts - let the people choose
Leader At this week's WLAN Event show in London, that has been a theme. Today we heard that British Airways has taken a big step in how it handles the PDAs and smart phones used by certain staff. Traditionally, there are two... [20 Apr 2005]
Radioactive: Do mobile operators covet broadband?
Comment The package comes with a modem which connects the fixed telephone and multiple PCs using WLAN or fixed LAN connections to the Vodafone 3G network. Now that the services are arriving, Futurity Media's Anthony Plewes... [16 Mar 2005]
The Bloor Perspective: Biometric choices, 3G+WLAN and EMC buying VMWare
Comment Biometrics have been used for many years for a variety of applications across a range of industries, including the use of fingerprint or iris scans for personal verification in the financial services industry, such as for withdrawals at... [22 Dec 2003]
Through the fog... The digital home
Comment We have heard many a story of ISP modems (for example, AOL Broadband's) not talking to WLAN equipment (for example, the Buffalo WBR G54-1 Broadband Access Router). The home WLAN and the Digital Media... [07 Nov 2003]
Wireless - flexible working's natural bedfellow
Comment Market researcher Teleanalytics predicts that the number of hotspots worldwide will increase from 15,000 to more than 300,000 by 2006, and Gartner expects frequent public WLAN users worldwide to number 31 million by 2007. [05 Nov 2003]
Is it 'time for prudent optimism'?
Comment I wouldn't project wider [than that] but the WLAN market is rich and vibrant. Nokia has hit its targets. SonyEricsson has reported its first ever profit. IBM - despite having shed staff - will also need to hire 10,000... [16 Oct 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Wi-Fi on the fly
Comment The aluminium and titanium cabin tube of this Boeing 777 is an ideal WLAN conduit and the 2.4Ghz signal is available end to end - even in the toilets. The use of wireless technologies in trains, planes and other modes of... [19 Jun 2003]
Cometa - Wi-Fi gold at the end of the rainbow?
Comment It was a boost, then, that three of the tech industry's illuminati announced plans to take the public WLAN (PWLAN) industry by storm. The idea of massive, wholesale Wi-Fi networks is gaining popularity, as witnessed by... [18 Jun 2003]
Wi-Fi special report commentary and analysis - all in one place...
Comment Time for a service provider to manage your WLAN? Would you trust anyone but your own IT department to run your WLAN? With interest in wireless LANs and in particular the Wi-Fi standard seemingly peaking,... [13 Jun 2003]
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