Gigabit Wi-Fi edged closer to reality this week, with the release of the latest version of an industry specification. Available to members of the <a href="http://www.wigig.org">WiGig Alliance</a>, the document will be the basis for an early round interoperability tests in the fall.
<a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/topics/microsoft/?intcmp=main_nav;mcrsft">Microsoft</a> has got together with a range of technology and media companies, such as BT and the BBC, to trial the use of unused TV spectrum for <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/mobile-wireless/?intcmp=main_nav;mbl-&-wrlss">WiFi</a> services in Cambridge.
The influx of mobile clients is accelerating an IT rethink of wireless LAN design and operations.
Carnegie Mellon University, which saw 1,000 brand-new Wi-Fi clients appear on its campus <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wireless.html">wireless</a> LAN this past semester, is experiencing the kind of device surge that's forcing IT groups all over to adapt to a new, more dynamic radio environment.
Different handheld mobile devices show a wide range of behaviors on <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wi-fi.html">Wi-Fi</a> networks. Differences can be traced to assorted radio chipsets, the way drivers are written, the frequencies supported and the number of antennas used, to name just a few variables.
A test network of 100 <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a> iPads successfully ran a battery of classroom multimedia <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/applications.html">applications</a> over an 802.11n <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wi-fi.html">Wi-Fi</a> network, according to Aruba Networks and the University of Ottawa, where the test was held in May.
I love my hometown of San Francisco. Great weather, great views, great food. But terrible radio. So when I'm driving, I've developed the habit of tuning into Pandora on an iPhone that I link to my car radio. Like a lot of other AT&T customers, I've been moved from my unlimited data plan to measured service. Yes, that was my choice, but what has the metered plan done to my music habit? And does that mean I made a mistake?
The next time you get mugged in Central Park, you'll be able to tell the world about it in real time.
Skyhook Wireless will be allowed to go forward with its Massachusetts lawsuit against Google, charging the search giant with trying to muscle Skyhook's Wi-Fi location technology out of the Android market. A state judge this week denied Google's request to either dismiss the case or grant a summary judgment.
Motorola Solutions Tuesday recast its enterprise WLAN product line with a new range of one- and two-radio 802.11n Wi-Fi access points, plus a large-scale controller that can handle 10,000 access points.
A Houston restaurant worker is the first user of a prototype wireless access point using low frequency signals in the so-called White Spaces between unused UHF digital TV signals.
Any IT department hoping to escape the headaches of supporting iPads in the enterprise should realize that they're more than likely already being brought into the workplace.
Android hasn't just surpassed Apple's iPhone in terms of total device sales, but in Web page load time as well.
The company that helped pioneer the controller-based enterprise wireless LAN is now selling wired Ethernet switches -- with a twist.
HP's new 802.11n Wi-Fi access points include two models that support three data streams, capable of yielding a data rate of 450Mbps per radio, or 900Mbps per access point. That translates into greater throughput, sustained over longer distances, compared with products that use two data streams.