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Social Services Turns To Wi-Fi
News In the event of the theft or loss of a PDA, the device can be locked and have all of its data wiped by Intellisync's systems management. Social workers are using wireless technology to speed up communications on the front line.
[August 31, 2005, 16:30]
Starbucks Under Wi-Fi Attack
Blog One amusing episode from yesterday at the Wireless Event was Robert Lang of Fon, the Wi-Fi sharing "community", revealing that his company is encouraging Foneros (people with Fon routers) who live near a Starbucks to aim their signals straight...
[May 25, 2007, 9:16]
High And Confusing Prices 'hampering' Wi-Fi Take-up
News Speaking at The Wireless LAN Event in London on Thursday, Ross Pow -- managing director of Analysys Research -- said that the Wi-Fi industry was "all over the place" with its charging models. Wi-Fi take-up in Europe is being hampered because the...
[May 22, 2003, 15:44]
Home Wi-Fi 'crucial' For Wireless Take-up
News Clive Mayhew-Begg, chief zones officer for Myzones, told an audience at The Wireless LAN Event at London's Olympia conference centre on Thursday that talk of mobile workers needing Wi-Fi access primarily when they're on the move misses a key fact...
[May 22, 2003, 16:30]
HP Plans Own-brand Wi-Fi
News Hewlett-Packard could be preparing to launch its own Wi-Fi access points in the summer. The Orinoco Wi-Fi product is a flexible system with dual radios, which is aimed at the centre of the market, but enterprises will want a more structured...
[February 25, 2003, 16:34]
Motorola Shuns Draft-n Wi-Fi Equipment
News Motorola will not produce any next-generation enterprise Wi-Fi equipment until the 802.11n standard is properly ratified, the company revealed on Thursday. The new generation of Wi-Fi promises improved bandwidth and range, and many vendors...
[May 25, 2007, 11:55]
Wi-Fi Cloud Could Be Silver Lining For Rural Broadband
News Niall Murphy, technical director of The Cloud, told the Hardcore Wireless Event -- a seminar organised by Digital Dales -- last week that these Wi-Fi hot spots could be an effective way of bringing high-speed Internet services to parts of the UK...
[March 24, 2003, 12:12]
Wi-Fi Rollout On Trains Needs Passenger Push
News The worldwide market for high-speed wireless networks on trains will be worth many hundreds of millions of pounds within five years, even though railway operators may be slow to embrace Wi-Fi, according to industry analysts.
[August 29, 2003, 17:45]
Westminster Council Bullish On Wi-Fi Expansion
News It was first launched last year as a pilot with Intel and Cisco, using Wi-Fi to link a small number of closed circuit television (CCTV) camera to a central network. According to Rogers, the Wi-Fi CCTV cameras cost just a fifth of the price of a...
[April 29, 2004, 16:05]
400Mbps Wi-Fi Standard Back On Track
News The only event that consumers can count on to guarantee compatibility is Wi-Fi Alliance certification," Greg Raleigh, chief executive officer of Airgo, said in an interview Thursday. A faster Wi-Fi standard appears to be about a year away, after a...
[January 20, 2006, 9:10]
Wi-Fi Attack On Laptop Demoed
News Flaws in the software that runs wireless-networking hardware could let an attacker break into a PC over Wi-Fi, security researchers warned Wednesday. To launch an attack using the Wi-Fi driver flaws, the would-be intruder needs to be within about...
[August 3, 2006, 9:15]
Wi-Fi Masterplan Delayed By Reshuffle
News It is understood that the library's Wi-Fi network is already up and running, so users shouldn't be unduly inconvenienced by this delay to the official 'switch-on'. He was a keen supporter of public access Wi-Fi in libraries.
[September 20, 2004, 14:05]
Bumpy Road Ahead For Wi-Fi Roaming
News But perhaps the biggest step towards roaming nirvana might come from an event that will cause the most pain: A shakeout in the Wi-Fi access industry. That the IDA-Intel alliance plan to pitch their plan to to industry bodies such as the GSM...
[March 18, 2003, 10:58]
Case Study: Wi-Fi Success At The Sundance Film Festival
White Papers Using some very up-to-the-minute Wi-Fi technology, they established a temporary hotspot network to distribute festival information and get participants communicating digitally in new ways. The event, held every January in Park City UT, a ski town...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Nokia: Firms Hot On Wi-Fi, Cold On 3G
News Niininen explained that chief information officers and IT managers want their staff to use cellular GPRS networks when they are on the move, and switch to the corporate Wi-Fi network when in the office.
[November 3, 2004, 16:38]
Wi-Fi Operator Launches Automatic Sign-on Tool
News The service was launched on Tuesday, but at a preview event last week The Cloud's business-development director, Owen Geddes, claimed mycloud "will become the umbrella for all Wi-Fi across Europe". Wi-Fi network operator The Cloud has launched an...
[May 7, 2008, 17:27]
Security Fears Mean Wi-Fi Won't Star At The Olympics
News The team designing and implementing the IT infrastructure for the 2004 Olympic Games will not be incorporating Wi-Fi into the networks they are building due to security concerns. Wi-Fi was also excluded from the IT network at the 2002 winter games...
[July 11, 2003, 15:28]
UK's Wi-Fi Market May Not Match The Hype
News The Wireless LAN Event, held at London Olympia last week, heard there is a significant gap between the number of Wi-Fi hot spots that have been set up so far in the UK and earlier forecasts. Earls Court and Olympia were among the first places to be...
[May 27, 2003, 14:44]
Wi-Fi Is Bad For You - Proof!
Blog But the whole daft Wi-Fi-danger thing has been popping up occasionally at this event, as you might expect. Just yesterday, this was a reputable PR for a mid-tier Wi-Fi vendor. Nonetheless, he pointed out that femtocells emit about a hundredth of...
[May 24, 2007, 13:12]
Wireless Joy - Or Not
Blog I'll let you all in on a little secret: it is one of the immutable laws of technology journalism that, at any event that is in any way associated with the joys of W-Fi or other wireless variants, there is little or no Wi-Fi coverage.
[May 23, 2007, 14:55]
