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RSS lans wlan in newsWiMax to break $1bn mark by 2009
News While the milestone is an important one for the long-range broadband technology, revenues from WiMax pale in comparison to those from WLAN, which jumped 10 per cent year-on-year to reach $2.4bn. Infonetics expects the WLAN market to be worth $3.9bn... [09 Mar 2006]
Voice over WLAN to triple by 2007
News The study found that the larger the organisation, the more likely it will be to adopt WLAN technology - minus any consideration for voice - with 57 per cent of small businesses, 62 per cent of medium businesses and 72 per cent of large businesses... [21 Oct 2005]
ITU 03: Gates talks up the Digital Decade
News Microsoft yesterday released software which should help public Wi-Fi hotspot operators by allowing branding and easier authentication and encryption but Gates also touted home wireless LANs - increasingly sold as a bolt-on to broadband access... [13 Oct 2003]
Wi-Fi - your security Achilles heel?
News What's more surprising is that these findings have come from a survey of over 300 CEOs, MDs and other senior directors at companies attending last month's WLAN Event conference in London - users who may well be considered to be more educated about... [09 Jun 2003]
Gemplus and Transat ink Wi-Fi security agreement
News WAIN is a way of authenticating WLAN users, a pressing concern for IT managers within enterprises and service providers offering public WLAN 'hot spots'. A typical user could be a laptop owner who, using wireless, downloads emails and surfs the web... [03 Apr 2003]
The City says WLAN good, WEP bad
News Companies in the City of London are increasingly using wireless LANs for high-speed data networking but the "perceived lack of security" is still the main barrier to their uptake, according to the latest research. [28 Nov 2002]
Intersil hits back at Agere
News The patents relate to the manufacturing and selling of integrated circuit boards for markets including WLAN, disk drives and telecommunications, the company said in a statement. Wireless LANs based on the 802.11b and 802.11a standards are becoming... [07 Nov 2002]
Wi-Fi on the rise? 3G advocates fight back
News Bernd Eylert, chairman of the UMTS Forum, told silicon.com: "People talk about WLAN cannibalising 10 or even 20 per cent of 3G revenue data, but we don't believe it. As such, Eylert contends WLAN and 3G will complement each other. [31 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 Wi-fi. [11 Jul 2002]
Major stores beam credit card details to the car park
News Best Buy's action follows a day of heated discussion on security newsgroups after an anonymous person said he had accidentally picked up credit card numbers while testing his newly purchased WLAN (wireless local area network) equipment in the... [02 May 2002]
Cisco and Xircom join forces for WLAN network adapters
News Cisco and Xircom have teamed up to offer mobile wireless LAN (WLAN) network adapters. The relationship between the two vendors will initially bear fruit in the shape of Xircom's Springboard WLAN module - incorporating Cisco's Aironet technology... [16 Jun 2000]
