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Article | 5/06/2010 Missouri AG looks into Google Wi-Fi mess
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is asking Google to answer questions about how the company's widespread wireless-network sniffing activities ma...
Article | 4/06/2010 Google wants to patent technology used to 'snoop' Wi-Fi networks
Google's secret Wi-Fi snooping was powered by new sniffing technology that the company wants to patent, court documents filed Wednesday alleged.
Article | 3/06/2010 Atheros sampling 450Mbps 802.11n Wi-Fi chipset
Chip maker Atheros Wednesday released samples of its powerful new 802.11n Wi-Fi chipset, which tops out with a maximum data rate of 450Mbps for access...
Article | 31/05/2010 NetComm launches MyZone mobile 3G Wi-Fi router
NetComm today launched 'MyZone', a mobile 3G Wi-Fi router that will initially be sold exclusively through official Apple retail stores.
Article | 29/05/2010 Wi-Fi shipments to pass 770 million units in 2010
Global shipments of Wi-Fi ICs have experienced an extraordinary growth in recent years, due to the increasing demands for wireless-enabled devices and...
Article | 27/05/2010 Meru packs diagnostic, security features into Wi-Fi management software
Meru Networks is adding new features to its enterprise Wi-Fi diagnostics, monitoring and security software, along with a new radio frequency scanner f...
Article | 26/05/2010 Google sued over Wi-Fi sniffing
Galaxy Internet Services, an ISP for homes and businesses in Massachusetts, has filed a class-action lawsuit against Google over the search company's ...
Article | 25/05/2010 Google saves, secures Wi-Fi snooping data
Google said that it has secured the data it obtained through its Street View Wi-Fi snooping, but will fight a class-action lawsuit's demand that it tu...
Article | 18/05/2010 US FTC asked to investigate Google Wi-Fi 'snooping'
A consumer group has called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google after the search company revealed that it had been collecting p...
Article | 17/05/2010 Google stops sniffing Wi-Fi data after privacy gaffe
Google has decided to stop its Street View cars from sniffing wireless networking data after an embarrassing privacy gaffe.
Article | 13/05/2010 Samsung camera to come with Boingo Wi-Fi
A new pocket-sized camera from Samsung will come with not just a Wi-Fi radio, but also Boingo software for getting online and three months of free acc...
Article | 13/05/2010 iPad a hit on Wi-Fi and a rich medium for advertisers
Apple Inc.'s iPad had a "tremendous" impact on Wi-Fi networks in airports, cafes and hotels in its first month, according to measurements of network a...
Article | 10/05/2010 Wireless Gigabit spec published, gains Cisco support
The group developing a super-fast wireless data technology that can transmit data up to 10 times as fast as today's fastest Wi-Fi published its initia...
Article | 10/05/2010 Wi-Fi, WirelessHD cozy up to WiGig standard
The Wireless Gigabit Alliance may be on its way to dominating the market for multi-gigabit in-room wireless networks after the powerful Wi-Fi Alliance...
Article | 4/05/2010 Apple tweaks Wi-Fi in iPhone to use China protocol
Apple appears to have tweaked its iPhone to support a Chinese security protocol for wireless networks, as companies increasingly adopt Chinese governm...