wi-fi in comment and analysis
Wi-Fi: 'not all that'
Comment Although Wi-Fi is one of the hottest issues in the IT sector at present, there are worrying signs that both rollout and take-up of the technology are undershooting industry targets. The Wireless LAN Event, held at London Olympia last week, heard... [28 May 2003]
Editor's Blog: Wi-fi at conference and more
Comment How could we invite people to our biggest annual event and select a venue that expects attendees to pay an arm and a leg for wi-fi access? So, to skip to the chase, expect us to use a wi-fi friendly venue. [05 Mar 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi activism
Comment Written in the lobby of a nice new London hotel that shall remain nameless, and despatched via an abnormally free wi-fi link to silicon.com Before I arrived my PA had already checked out the availability of high-speed wi-fi access here and 20... [29 Mar 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Wi-Fi on the fly
Comment With Wi-Fi now being built into almost all new laptops and some PDAs, perhaps I shouldn’t be amazed that there is an increasing amount of radiation in the 2.5GHz (802.11) Wi-Fi band. Today I happen to be flying the Atlantic and there are numerous... [19 Jun 2003]
Wi-Fi special report commentary and analysis - all in one place...
Comment With interest in wireless LANs and in particular the Wi-Fi standard seemingly peaking, this page pulls together all our analysis, commentary and opinion. Wi-Fi: 'not all that' Wi-Fi: The UK service provider landscape [13 Jun 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi London
Comment During the past few weeks I have completed a wi-fi survey of London in order to get some measure of the node density across a 4km-diameter area centred on Liverpool Street Station. As with my prior UK rural survey - see my earlier blog - this didn... [31 Jan 2007]
Wi-Fi: Believe the hype
Comment There have been enough stories penned this year about Wi-Fi wireless networks for you to know the technology is at the top of the infamous hype curve. Wireless networks - usually those using the 802.11b standard commonly referred to as Wi-Fi - are... [26 Mar 2003]
Wi-Fi: The UK service provider landscape
Comment You've heard about free, 'guerrilla Wi-Fi' providers of wireless networks - you may even have one in the street you live in. Broadscape is pioneering a business model where a customer who buys a sandwich or a coffee also gets 30 minutes free Wi-Fi... [19 May 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi really is everywhere
Comment Where is all this (free) wi-fi? Edited in my home office and dispatched from an open wi-fi node I found in Woodbridge whilst having coffee Every time I write anything about wi-fi, feature the topic in a presentation or even include it in casual... [10 Jan 2007]
Cometa - Wi-Fi gold at the end of the rainbow?
Comment The idea of massive, wholesale Wi-Fi networks is gaining popularity, as witnessed by the birth of The Cloud in the UK this year. When an executive from the ubiquitous coffee chain Starbucks admitted at a recent Wi-Fi conference that usage in... [18 Jun 2003]
Dear silicon.com... Data breach row, hotel iMac, wi-fi piggybacking: yay or nay?
Comment Wi-fi piggybacking is OK, say silicon.com readers Don't leave security to chance, you may regret it later, please secure your wi-fi. UK's worst security breach Missing: 25 million child benefit records [22 Nov 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Wi-Fi on smart phones a smart idea?
Comment As Wi-Fi starts showing up on smart phones, the most compelling use is voice over IP. The plan is particularly pertinent as Motorola is soon to release the MPX, a smart phone supporting Wi-Fi. BT's Project Bluephone also mixes Wi-Fi and voice. [20 Aug 2004]
Dear silicon.com... MS vs open source, wi-fi risks, being green...
Comment Risky wi-fi Wi-fi health risks to be probed Poll: Wi-fi sharing not for everybody So when some criminal drives by and uses my free wi-fi signal to download some illegal content, which of us gets the knock on the door at 4am from the police? [18 Oct 2007]
Leader: Wi-Fi: Right time, wrong place?
Leader Nobody seems to doubt the usefulness of Wi-Fi for the modern mobile worker - though some suggest portable may be a better phrase than mobile. Trains and planes make perfect sense, for obvious reasons, but some businesses appear to be undermining... [28 Oct 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi radiation scare
Comment Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via the City of Westminster free (for a trial period) wi-fi service And yet strangely no one has spotted that domestic microwave ovens with faulty doors have a 1,000-fold greater... [29 May 2007]
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