Intersil, Atheros and Texas Instruments, along with a number of wireless LAN vendors, will demonstrate 802.11g wireless products, based on the as-yet-unratified IEEE 802.11g specifications at Comdex next week. At 54M bit/sec, it could be the successor to 802.11b, which tops out at 11M bit/sec. The higher data rate, [...]
Last month, the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) team, using stock Wi-Fi gear, beamed Wi-Fi 72 miles across the Pacific to San Clemente Island. Seventy-two miles has gotta be a record! It easily tops Rob Flickenger’s original 20 mile long shot, a [...]
Cellular and radio tower companies are having a convention this week in New Orleans. Finding and leasing tower space is one of the most expensive, important and frustrating parts of establishing wireless service. In 1999, major cellular operators began selling off their tower portfolios and leasing them back from [...]
802 Planet reports that Transat Technologies and WeRoam lets wireless carriers get into the WLAN space without a capital investment. The secret is in the SIM chip. It is used by some cellular carriers to authenticate the user. The ID chip would also be used at public “hot [...]
The Feature is a great new wireless blog. The editorial content seems independent and well organized although it is owned and operated by Nokia. It’s smart and stylish and it doesn’t actively push advertising or Nokia products. Glenn says take a look at TechDirt, too. [...]
MeshNetworks , an ad hoc, peer-to-peer networking company, today announced that the FCC granted regulatory approval for their Mesh Enabled Architecture and networking products. With this approval, MeshNetworks is able to offer these products nationwide. They have two product lines approved by the FCC: a Wi-Fi-based networks for [...]
Voice Terminal allows you to securely check your existing E-mail account, completely hands free, by simply using your voice, from any phone, anytime, anywhere. Voice Terminal uses advanced speech recognition technology. Multiple plans are available for 1 year of service- $99.95, 6 months - $59.95 [...]
The 802 plenary meeting, held this week in Hawaii, is making Ethernet faster and longer. EE Times reports six companies kicked off an effort to formalize a 10-G Base T standard for 10-Gbit Ethernet over copper. The plan: carrying 10-Gbit/second Ethernet signals over 100 meters on ordinary Category [...]
The vulnerability of certain AccessPoints (DLink 900AP+, Wisecom, etc) makes it possible to read the configuration details such as Password, WEP-keys and MAC-Addresses. A tool for windows which checks if your AccessPoint is vulnerable is available at
A new Pentagon research office has started designing a global computer surveillance system to give U.S. counterterrorism officials access to personal information in government and commercial databases around the world. The Information Awareness Office, run by former national security adviser John M. Poindexter, aims to develop new technologies to [...]
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