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WLANs / Wi-Fi

Article | 6/10/2011 WiFi users blissfully ignorant about real security, research finds
New research conducted on behalf of the Wi-Fi Alliance shows that while wireless users are making strides on the security front, they’re still leaving...
Article | 29/07/2011 Super Wi-Fi has 100km range, is coming to save the day
Super Wi-Fi is inching closer to reality, and now the IEEE, the standards organization responsible for all things Wi-Fi, has published the IEEE 802.22...
Article | 7/07/2011 Wi-Fi service provider iPass launches roaming exchange
Wi-Fi service provider iPass has launched an exchange to help mobile network operators offer Wi-Fi roaming as part of their service.
Article | 2/07/2011 Controlling Wi-Fi radio 'nap-time' reaps big power savings
A Duke University grad student has come up with a way to double, or more, battery life in Wi-Fi devices, without any changes needed on the device itse...
Article | 1/07/2011 KDDI offloads traffic on cellular network through Wi-Fi
Japan's KDDI is installing more than 100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots that smartphone users will be connected to automatically for data services, offloading tra...
Article | 14/06/2011 Smartphone data plans: How to keep bandwidth usage in check
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 tuni...
Article | 26/05/2011 Wi-Fi Direct coming on strong, Broadcom says
Wi-Fi Direct, a peer-to-peer networking standard that came out last year but has been slow to appear in consumer products, will be in a large percenta...
Article | 26/05/2011 Broadcom sees NFC in 10 percent of phones next year
NFC (near-field communication) will hit the big time in mobile phones next year, joining an array of emerging features that carriers are clamoring for...
Article | 19/05/2011 Seagate drive streams media to your iPad, iPhone
The scoop: GoFlex Satellite, by Seagate, about $200.
Article | 11/05/2011 Senator questions Google on Wi-Fi snooping
A U.S. senator resurrected year-old questions about Google Street View cars sniffing Wi-Fi networks Tuesday, when he questioned a company representati...
Article | 6/05/2011 Skyhook wins early round in lawsuit against Google
Skyhook Wireless will be allowed to go forward with its Massachusetts lawsuit against Google, charging the search giant with trying to muscle Skyhook'...
Article | 4/05/2011 Motorola jacks up high-end 802.11n Wi-Fi controller capacity tenfold
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-sc...
Article | 3/05/2011 Home Wi-Fi network security: 4 ways to avoid big trouble
Locking down your home Wi-Fi network with a password is like making sure you eat your broccoli. It's probably good for you, but you probably think it'...
Article | 15/04/2011 Ready or not, iPad, other tablets are in the enterprise
Any IT department hoping to escape the headaches of supporting iPads in the enterprise should realize that they're more than likely already being brou...
Article | 22/03/2011 Wi-Fi group plans to simplify hotspot access
The Wi-Fi Alliance plans to make getting onto a public hotspot as easy as connecting to a cellular network, a change that mobile operators are likely ...