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ZigBee Keeps Wireless Network Buzzing
News A group of leading technology companies will meet this week to discuss and further develop an emerging wireless networking technology with an unconventional name, ZigBee. The ZigBee Alliance, including Honeywell, Invensys, Mitsubishi, Motorola and...
[February 17, 2003, 13:50]
Zigbee Will Spring Into Action This Year
News Two Taiwan-based chip design houses have announced that their Zigbee products will be launched towards the end of the year. Uniband Electronic expects its Zigbee chips to debut by year-end, reported Taiwan's Digitimes.
[April 11, 2003, 14:24]
ZigBee Pioneer Raises Another $12m
News Ember is developing products and software that support ZigBee, a wireless technology based on the 802.15.4 standard that offers the promise of low-power networking and control in the future. Advocates of ZigBee claim that millions of electronic...
[June 14, 2006, 17:30]
ZigBee Gets Ready For Certification
News The ZigBee Alliance, a group of companies pushing a new wireless technology that could give network connectivity to all electrical devices, is getting ready to certify products. The Alliance announced on Thursday that is launching a range of test...
[January 6, 2006, 16:25]
ZigBee Product Flood Defies Sceptics
News Product announcements are flooding out for ZigBee, a low-power sensor networking standard, but rivals continue to maintain their technologies also have a place. ZigBee chips are now widely available, including low-power devices designed for long...
[September 14, 2005, 14:15]
ZigBee Gets Middleware Boost
News ZigBee, the emerging wireless technology that could give billions of electronic devices a connection to the Internet, has moved another small step towards wide-scale commercial deployment. A partnership formed last week between Ember, a maker of...
[October 19, 2004, 11:15]
ZigBee Clears Ratification Hurdle
News Intelligent sensor networks moved a little closer to commercial deployment on Tuesday with the ratification of ZigBee. ZigBee is a short-range, very low-power wireless technology. The ZigBee Alliance announced late on Tuesday that the first ZigBee...
[December 15, 2004, 16:20]
World's First ZigBee Phone Unveiled
News South Korean mobile partnership Pantech&Curitel claims to have made history this week by launching the first handset to support ZigBee. ZigBee is an emerging low-power networking standard which could allow any device containing a microprocessor to...
[December 8, 2004, 17:15]
Microsoft Millionaire Opens Wallet For ZigBee Start-up
News Ember, a start-up that is developing chips for ZigBee -- the low-cost, low-power wireless networking standard -- received $25m in venture capital funding this week. A number of major IT companies are involved in ZigBee, including Honeywell...
[October 1, 2004, 14:20]
Ethernet Creator Talks Up Potential Of ZigBee
News Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, predicted last week that the ZigBee wireless standard would be hugely successful -- which makes sense, as his company Polaris Ventures, has a stake in its success.
[October 11, 2004, 17:35]
ZigBee Gets Ready For Certification
Talkback ""Putting in place a stringent set of certification requirements was necessary to ensure complete end-to-end interoperability" That's a bloddy laugh, I wonder what'll be next
[January 7, 2006, 1:45]
ZigBee Clears Ratification Hurdle
Talkback how does zig bee differ from bluetooth/
[December 15, 2004, 18:00]
ZigBee Product Flood Defies Sceptics
Talkback Sometimes I don't know why I bother comming here, its so technical. I wish that ZDnet would just report on one wireless standard so everyone would only know about one and use it, voila no problem
[September 14, 2005, 17:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog ZigBee is starting to make waves -- which is just as well, as it's a wireless protocol. Most of them have now been answered -- although there's still the scent of a standards tussle in the air -- but there is one that deserves a special place in...
[October 15, 2004, 19:15]
WirelessUSB Gets Cheaper - At A Cost
News Cypress Semiconductor is sampling a second-generation, lower-cost chipset based on its WirelessUSB cable-replacement technology, which the company says could beat Bluetooth, ZigBee and wireless LAN technologies for many applications.
[August 12, 2003, 17:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That's OK, that's my job -- what's not OK is that one of the primary ZigBee protagonists is Philips. The latest wireless standard is called ZigBee. There was absolutely no point in asking about wireless networking -- let alone ZigBee -- at this...
[August 9, 2002, 18:19]
Photos: Sensor Telemetry
News A mesh network based on the ZigBee standard handles communications between the wagons so that the cargo can be monitored. Sensors that monitor the status of the cargo can be embedded on the Zigbee board .
[March 30, 2006, 14:45]
Tuesday - Internet Lamp Day
Blog There are plenty of cheap alternatives either here or on the way -- Zigbee is wireless designed explicitly to be good for lighting control, among other things, and I'd buy a Zigbee light and a USB controller in, as it were, a flash.
[April 11, 2003, 17:02]
Wireless Standards Are 'a Complete And Utter Mess'
News There are a number of incompatible networking technologies, such as Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Bluetooth, Ultrawideband and Near Field Communication (NFC), which have some similar uses but are better tuned for different situations.
[May 26, 2005, 19:20]
