NetStumbler.com

Whenever Dick Tracy checked in with Diet Smith on his two-way wrist radio (and, later, TV), kids everywhere imagined how cool life would be if they could send similar missives. WiFi — wireless fidelity — has been wonderfully pre-sold. When laptops or hand-held computers started linking through local area networks (WLANS) in airports, hotels, conference centers and private businesses, Diet Smith no longer had anything on any other traveling executive.
Via [usatoday.com]

The Wi-Fi Alliance won’t like this: a simple compatibility test of two mainstream wireless devices by Computing Which? failed to get a Netgear bridge to talk to a Linksys router.
Via [theregister.co.uk]