Gateway on Thursday unveiled a version of its wireless DVD player that supports the 802.11g standard and can handle content from PCs running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 software. Via [news.com.com]… Continue Reading
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HotSpotVPN Provides Easy, Inexpensive Hotspot Security
A jerk lurking at a hotspot with a public domain sniffer can potentially gain access to all manner of confidential information, including the assets on your enterprise’s network. For many users, HotSpotVPN is a viable security solution. Via [internetweek.com]… Continue Reading
PCTEL To Supply Wi-Fi Finder
Need to find a Wi-Fi signal but hate having to boot up the laptop to do it? PCTEL feels your pain. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]… Continue Reading
WPA Isn’t Enough To Keep Wi-Fi Networks Safe
According to a top Gartner analyst, when companies are developing their wireless security strategies, they need to consider far more than whether to deploy Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) or other out-of-the-box security fixes. Via [searchnetworking.techtarget.com]… Continue Reading
Barnes & Noble Goes Wi-Fi
Hotspot “wholesaler” Cometa Networks was supposed to have opened up a few thousand hotspots by now. However, with actual numbers falling far short of previously announced plans, the company has adopted a “year-by-year” approach to installing its public access Wi-Fi network. Now, in what the company is touting as the “initiation of its national rollout… Continue Reading
Wireless Powwow Takes Aim At Spectrum
With the boom in Wi-Fi growing by the day, Silicon Valley executives seized the chance on Monday to make sure that Uncle Sam will make the right policy moves for the wireless future. Via [news.com.com]… Continue Reading
WLAN Future Lies In 802.11n Kit
Some wireless equipment vendors believe 802.11a has failed and are already looking to a proposed 108Mbit/s standard to take its place. Via [vnunet.com]… Continue Reading
Voice On Wi-Fi Advances
Vendors are offering telephone handsets designed for use over corporate wireless LANs. Via [vnunet.com]… Continue Reading
Start-up Ups Ante On Wi-Fi Security
AirMagnet is taking intrusion detection and prevention a step further in the wireless local area network market with a new version of its software that can block and disable rogue users. Via [news.com.com]… Continue Reading
Wireless Industry Intellectually Challenged
The wireless industry has reached that stage where intellectual property issues threaten to overshadow real technology debates. Too many bright start-ups, many facing shake-out and failing to gain significant market presence through effective sales, are turning instead to their patent portfolios and the ‘Qualcomm model’ of deriving revenue from other companies’ licensing fees. Via [theregister.co.uk]… Continue Reading
Wi-Fi And Skateboards Together In LOVE Park? Why Not?
When Mayor Street announced on Friday that he intends to rig LOVE Park up with wireless access to the Internet, he proved he’s thinking along the right lines when it comes to this under-used urban park. Via [philly.com]… Continue Reading
Linksys Clarifies Netgear Comms Breakdown
Linksys has hit back at the Computing Which? report suggesting that the company’s Wireless-G router failed to communicate with Netgear’s Wi-Fi bridge during testing at Which? offices. Linksys corporate communications manager, Karen Sohl, says the publication is wrong if it suggests that there’s any standards failure by Linksys. Via [theregister.co.uk]… Continue Reading
Free Wi-Fi Access Could Lead To More Business
Looking to drum up more business, ACJ Technology is giving a little in hopes of getting a lot. The wireless networking company is developing a network of free Wi-Fi hot spots for Seattle area businesses. Via [wirelessweek.com]… Continue Reading
Calypso Charges On Wi-Fi Patent Enforcement
Shares of Calypso Wireless surged nearly 30 percent following news that the company is planning to enforce its newly awarded patent that covers roaming between cellular and wireless local area networks. The company has begun contacting wireless OEMs. Via [wirelessweek.com]… Continue Reading
McDonald’s Wi-Fi Recipe Could Define Industry
Signs at a McDonald’s in downtown San Francisco cordially beckon customers to surf the Web using its wireless Internet service, but no one is biting during a recent Wednesday lunch hour. Via [zdnet.com.com]… Continue Reading