There was good news and bad news out of the IEEE meetup in Hawaii this week. First the good news.
The IEEE has unanimously approved a draft version of 802.11n the next bump up in speed for WiFi, reports C/Net and Unstrung. The long-anticipated 802.11n specification will operate in the same 2.4 and 5 Ghz bands [...]
“We’ve reached the end of the beginning.” - Sean Maloney, Intel mobility group
The era of qualifying WiMax gear as “pre-WiMax” or “WiMAX-like” is over.
Today the WiMAX Forum (finally) announced gear that has been officially WiMAX Forum Certified. That means WiMax gear, like WiFi gear before it, will have been tested for interoperably and conformance [...]
The Wall Street Journal has a progress report on Taipei’s huge citywide Wi-Fi Cloud.
Originally it was planned to be completed by the end of last year but it has been delayed somewhat. It’s now expected to be finished by the middle of 2006. The WiFi cloud will easily be the world’s largest, covering 90% [...]
Will Core Duo Notebooks Trade Battery Life For Quicker Response? asks Tom’s Hardware in a long, in-depth article.
Just about a year after Intel introduced the second generation Centrino Mobile Technology with Sonoma, its next generation “Napa” implementation is now ready for the light of day. Sonoma was designed to make desktop PC features - such [...]
Advocates of Wi-Fi Learn the Art of Politics says Glenn Fleishmann in the New York Times.
“All of us were very idealistic, and all quite strongly opinionated,” said Adam Shand, founder of Personal Telco, which had visions of such a network in Portland, Ore. Matt Westervelt, the founder of Seattle Wireless, raised $2,500 for a climber [...]
The Milwaukee City Council approved an agreement with Midwest Fiber Networks to build a $20 million city-wide wireless broadband network last November and have finalized negotiations. The Milwaukee BizJournal says the system will be up and running in 18 months, with a demo area west of downtown running in 4 months.
Midwest will build and [...]
Unstrung says the decision by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to use the lightweight access point protocol (LWAPP) as the foundation of its specification for the control and provisioning of WiFi networks means that there will finally be a standard way of centrally controlling enterprise access points.
The standards body recommended that LWAPP be used [...]
EE Times reports that IPWireless has thrown its hat into the already crowded mobile TV market and has also garnered a further $10 million ‘strategic’ investment from U.S. carrier Sprint Nextel.
The mobile TV technology, dubbed TDtv, utilizes UMTS TD-CDMA technology — and cellular channels — in the recently defined 3GPP Release 6 Multimedia Broadcast and [...]
BelAir Networks, today announced that Winncom Technologies will market and support BelAir’s wireless mesh networking product family in the U.S. and Europe. The alliance will enable BelAir to further scale its sales channels and strengthen its overseas presence.
Winncom offers complimentary products including, bridges, routers, software and other premium networking components.
BelAir’s metro mesh solution, like the [...]
Google is buying dMarc Broadcasting for close to a billion dollars. dMarc claims to be the market-leading provider of digital advertising services in radio broadcasting. The Washington Post says Internet ads account today for $10 billion in revenue, while radio is a $20.6 billion market. Radio lacks a good way for small and medium size [...]
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