Recent IEEE 802.11 Headlines
Network World The 5 best, and 5 worst, features of Google Chrome OS
Today, Google released the source code for Chrome OS and promised that devices will be shipping in about a year, in time for the 2010 holiday season. Chrome OS will run only on devices specifically manufactured for it and Google is dictating to manufacturers the hardware specifications. For instance, Chrome OS devices will be netbooks, will not include a hard drive, will have only solid state disks, will rely on specified WiFi chipsets/adapters for connectivity and must have full-sized keyboards, says Sund...
Network World Wireless turns inside out
Cellular networks were originally built to keep people connected when away from their wired indoor phones. For its part, Wi-Fi's genesis was to eliminate cabling to desktop PCs, then later to provide data mobility in and around the home and office. Now, the respective technologies' goals are flip-flopping. Cellular is doing its darnedest to affordably cover indoor locations, while Wi-Fi is making a hard push outside. What gives?
Network World The Wacky World of WiFi
In honor of the 802.11n WiFi standard getting close to arriving after wandering through the desert for 40 years, let's look at wireless. Our focus today is on helping you WiFi better, even if it means doing less WiFi.
Network World What's next for Wi-Fi?
The approval of the 802.11n wireless standard marks not the end but the start of a wave of Wi-Fi innovation. Here are eight ways it will change in the next three to five years.
ZDNet Wi-Fi firms put onus on users for hotspot security
Hotspot operators say it is up to customers to use encryption, after the BBC's Watchdog programme hacks into emails sent over public Wi-Fi
ZDNet ISP: Wi-Fi test shows flaw in file-sharing crackdown
TalkTalk says its street-level Wi-Fi hacking test shows proposals to disconnect unlawful file-sharers could end up affecting innocent people
BBC Free public Wi-Fi scheme for town
Swindon will be the first town in the UK to offer free wireless internet access to its entire population, its council says.
GPRS News fring for Google Android Launches
ICQ, Yahoo! and AIM buddies as well. fring even has Twitter support. fring on Android works over 3G, GPRS or Wi-Fi connections. So how do you get it? Two ways: 1) From Android Market Start the Market application on your phone Search for fring and install
GPRS News Carry online with interactive sound level meters
are simply required to be active on a WLAN connection or available on the internet via a 3G, GPRS, EDGE or GPRS router connection. The user enters the unique IP address - or address label - of the instrument into the Internet address field, on the
GPRS News Fly Launches New Dual SIM Touch Handsets
the 89MB internal memory that the phone comes with. On the connectivity front, the phone is EDGE and GPRS capable, with support for Bluetooth for local file transfers. No sign of Wi-Fi here - but then that is excused considering the price at which this
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