What's up in the Wi-Fi World
16 June 2004
Hotspot Hits
Hotspot news from the states.The latest in public access Wi-Fi: Mesh is coming to hotels; Grand Haven, Mich., and Rio Rancho, N.M., celebrate city-wide coverage; Spokane's airport provides access; and more.
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14 June 2004
Take a MIMO
The advanced antenna technology -- using multiple data streams to push Wi-Fi speeds up to 108Mbps -- may be available in products as soon as next month.
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1 June 2004
Broadening Chip Markets
Leading Wi-Fi chipmakers Broadcom and Atheros have made announcements today that each hopes will get them major play in different areas of wireless.
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21 May 2004
Home and Enterprise WLAN Sales Grow
No surprises here: the first quarter of 2004 brought only good news to the WLAN industry and most of its vendors (USA based).
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19 May 2004
Wireless Internet Radio Shoots for Mainstream
Is adding speakers to Wi-Fi media adapters enough to ignite the passions of tech-savvy audiophiles? Linksys hopes so.
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17 May 2004
Scanning at the Point of Entry
Security software provider Perfigo says its new component can help prevent infections on the network caused by mobile workers returning home with a worm or virus.
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27 April 2004
Wi-Fi Watches the Kids
Legoland, the Danish equivalent of Disneyland but built with small plastic block toys, is the test bed of a new Wi-Fi version of Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tags, the technology making converts everywhere from the halls of the U.S. Pentagon to the aisles of retail giant Wal-Mart.
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21 April 2004
Cisco Rolls Major Patches to TCP Flaw
Routing and switching giant Cisco (Quote, Chart) said a security flaw in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) specification that could lead to major disruption of the Internet is also a potential threat to its product lines and needs to be addressed.
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19 April 2004
Cramming In All That Wi-Fi
Semiconductor maker Marvell of Sunnyvale, Calif., makers of the Libertas line of wireless chips, has unveiled a platform featuring a system-on-a-chip (SoC) that puts multiple wireless functions into a single device.
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22 March 2004
TI Prepares for Wi-Fi Phones
Dallas based Texas Instruments (TI) took the wraps off a new 802.11g/b and dual-band 802.11a/g/b solution today that it hopes will make a splash in the up-and-coming market of phone handsets and PDAs using Wi-Fi.
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