Hackers find a way to crack popular smartcard in minutes
People are starting to wake up to the fact that RFID-enabled smartcards now can be far more easily, and cheaply, cracked than ever before, as a trio of young computer experts recently showed.
Stories by John Cox
Helpdesk software goes mobile
Users of BMC's Service Desk Express will soon be able to extend its features to an array of mobile devices, with new software from Aeroprise.
Researchers reengineer the wireless internet
When you talk to the researchers at Rutgers University's Wireless Information Network Laboratory, you wonder how anyone actually communicates with radios. Or would want to.
Fine tuning 802.11n for 'visual networking'
Beyond basic networking
Start-up develops open source mobile device
Bug Labs, a start-up based in San Francisco and Manhattan, has developed a collection of Linux-based, snap-together electronic modules that let users build and program their own mobile gadget. It’s like extending the concept of open source from software to hardware.
Microsoft on Xbox's strange signal: It could be anything
After 37 days, Microsoft issued a 43-word statement on the report of a strange, strong radio signal apparently generated by its Xbox 360 game console, and noticed by Morrisville State College in New York.
Study: Google Android faces big problems, tight deadline
A new study says Google faces some big problems in making its Android handset software stack a success.
802.11n adoption to lead wireless trends in '08
In 2008, the enterprise wireless LAN will be reinvented, at least for those enterprises where mobility is a requirement rather than a convenience.
Mobile workers put company data at risk, study says
Despite highly publicized data breaches, mobile workers still endanger company data with risky behaviors, according to a new survey.
Apple: 250,000 iPhones unlocked from AT&T
Apple COO Tim Cook revealed this week that some 250,000, or about 18 percent, of all iPhones sold so far have been unlocked, so they can run on cell nets other than AT&T's.
Apple to release unlocked iPhone in France
Under a just-announced deal, the European mobile carrier Orange will be the exclusive source for the iPhone in the French market. The unlocked phone is concession to a French law that forbids companies to bundle a cell phone to a specific mobile operator.
The iPhone is toxic, warns Greenpeace
The latest embarrassment for <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/apple.html">Apple</a>'s iPhone is a report from ecoadvocacy group, Greenpeace, which says the revolutionary new cell phone has traces of two toxic chemicals that have been eliminated by some of Apple's rivals from their products.
Wireless VoIP works, but it’s work
A trio of healthcare organisations say that large-scale wireless VoIP deployments work. But it takes work, and lots of it.
802.11n starts its wireless stress test at university
There are two things different about Morrisville State College this week. One is the campus-wide wireless LAN, with about 700 access points, including 10 brand new draft IEEE 802.11n access points from Meru Networks.
Mobility should be strategic, not tactical
Wireless networking and mobile technologies have the potential to fire-up your organisation, increase business agility and improve customer service. But to reap these benefits requires new approaches and new ways of thinking.