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Businesses are aware that there are significant advantages to going wireless but many are blundering in with their eyes closed, latest research as found.
Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

It didn’t seem that long ago that those running DIY home renovation projects would take the re-plastering as an opportunity to run speaker cable and then category 5 networking cable from room to room. Those days could be long gone, and not just because of the sprawl across suburbia of house design TV programmes promoting ‘design’ over function. Wireless data networks in the home are enjoying significant growth, and now it’s really beginning to move from just email and web browsing to encompass audio and video.
Via [it-director.com]

Tatara Systems says that the company’s SIM-based Wi-Fi authentication, roaming and service delivery solutions have been proven in a real-world environment. Tatara’s SIM-based authentication solutions facilitate easier authentication and delivery of enhanced services to wireless users roaming between wireless local area networks (LANs) and wireless wide area networks (WANs).
Via [cellular-news.com]

The last couple of weeks have seen another avalanche of announcements about higher-speed Wi-Fi.
Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

Over 150 Starbucks UK coffee shops now provide wireless Internet access, the company proudly announced yesterday.
Via [theregister.co.uk]

WiFi is already radically changing the way in which the internet is accessed in the home, in the office, in public locations and on the move. However wireless LANs are only one part of a much bigger wireless broadband landscape that is now unfolding before us. WiMAX and 802.20 threaten to have just as big an impact on outdoor broadband wireless service delivery as WiFi has done in indoor environments.
Via [mobilemag.com]

AMD has come under fire for its over-zealous attempt to create a company-branded network of Wi-Fi hotspots that may see the chip maker getting into legal hot water.
Via [theregister.co.uk]

Texas Instruments today unveiled its third generation 802.11 solution specifically designed for mobile devices such as cell phones, smartphones and PDAs.
Via [news.designtechnica.com]

Taiwanese hardware maker Asustek Computer will launch a hard-drive case that can be accessed over high-speed 802.11g wireless networks, the company announced at CeBIT.
Via [computerweekly.com]

If the future of Wi-Fi is complete ubiquity and pervasiveness than it’s likely that Mesh architecture for wireless LANs will play a pivotal role.
Via [internetnews.com]

Agere is the latest firm to introduce a semi-proprietary, turbocharged Wi-Fi chipset anticipate the 108Mbps standard expected in two years’ time. The company is trying to make up for its recent dormant state in the WLAN business, and is claiming peak rates of 150Mbps.
Via [theregister.co.uk]

The spread of wi-fi is being hampered by increasing complex and incompatible products, an industry body promoting the technology has said.
Via [news.bbc.co.uk]

T-Mobile today offered what it claimed was a “simplified” and “standardised” pricing structure for its Wi-Fi hotspots that introduces direct billing for the company’s mobile phone subscribers.
Via [theregister.co.uk]

Tom Montalbano seems like an ideal customer for wireless Internet “hot spots” in hotels, restaurants and airports. The 41-year-old insurance investigator travels four days a week, compiling reports from jewelry robberies on his laptop computer.
Via [online.wsj.com]

The Wi-Fi Alliance has lifted the lid on its wireless roadmap and predicted that kit based on 802.11n will be in the shops by autumn next year.
Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]