WiFi NEWS

January 12, 2007There has been some concern lately, mostly in the UK, that the radio frequency radiation (RFR) emitted by Wi-Fi devices poses a health risk to people. Individuals suffering from a variety of innocuous but unpleasant symptoms including nausea and “brain fog” have attributed their ailments to Wi-Fi signals. The complaints have resulted in the banning of Wi-Fi in some areas, particularly those frequented by children. However, according
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January 10, 2007A lot of computer connections have gone wireless today, from your network to your printer, but there are two things that can’t go wireless: the power supply, and your monitor’s video connection. Right? Well, wireless extension cords may not be real, but work may be progressing on wireless energy transfer — which involves no cords, although the products still have to touch… But what about your display? DisplayLink of Palo Alto, California
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January 9, 2007Internet phone company Vonage (Quote) inked a three-year agreement with EarthLink (Quote), allowing the Internet access provider to offer Wi-Fi access to customers served by municipal wireless networks. Vonage said later this year it will provide customers in EarthLink areas wireless modems as an alternative to DSL or cable Internet. Vonage also said its Wi-Fi phone will eventually use the networks, providing subscribers the option to place voice calls over Wi-Fi.

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January 9, 2007
Click to ViewAt the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, Nokia has already introduced several new wireless products, including the N800 Internet Tablet. Nokia’s N800, a followup to the 770 Internet Tablet, is already available in the U.S. for $400 and in select European markets for 399 Euros. Nokia has brought the Internet Tablets under the umbrella
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January 8, 2007Sure, the future is all about video this and multimedia that and hooking your TV to the network and watching shows over the Internet from anywhere… but the short-term money is still in the routers and PC cards with the newest technology. At least, that’s still the case at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show this week, where vendors have new gateways from your network to the broadband connection. However, with draft 802.11n tech built
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January 8, 2007At CES 2007 in Las Vegas today, the Wi-Fi Alliance said it has certified the first products supporting Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS). This is an optional technology meant to make it easier for home and small office network operators – those without an IT staff — to deploy secure wireless LANs. Parks Associates forecasts that 90% of homes with networks will use Wi-Fi by 2010; the Alliance’s own surveys show security is among
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December 28, 2006

Thanks to the seemingly ubiquitous nature of wireless connectivity, many of the promises of new options for consumers and business made in 2006 will be realized in 2007, according to experts surveyed by internetnews.com.

Companies that made headlines in 2006 will again hold the spotlight, including AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Vonage . And cellular carriers will embrace past competitors as old technology is upgraded.

With nearly
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December 19, 2006UPDATED: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Robert McDowell is standing by his recusal from the agency’s AT&T-BellSouth merger vote, declining an invitation to break the 2-2 deadlock over the $80 billion deal hung up on network neutrality conditions. McDowell, nominated to the FCC by President Bush on Feb. 6, is the former lobbyist for a trade group of AT&T and BellSouth competitors opposing the merger. Since taking his
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December 20, 2006When is a mesh network not a mesh network? Colgate University in central New York State knows. It recently completed the rollout of a campus wide outdoor network using Tropos Networks’ MetroMesh equipment — but none of the units are meshing. “We just wanted maximum throughput,” says Rich Grant, the associate director of technology planning for the liberal arts school. “We have backhaul on all the Tropos access points. That’s
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December 19, 2006It’s not enough to setup a city-wide, Wi-Fi-based, mesh network. You have to keep track of it. That’s why companies that make the equipment, like Tropos Networks and SkyPilot Networks, are announcing partnerships with companies that can keep track of the traffic they generate. Tropos is partnering with NetNearU (NNU). The NNU TRACKOS management platform has already been deployed with some Tropos networks, including the big setups
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