Bob Liu

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The real issue with wireless Local Area Networks deployment isn’t so much access, costs or even data rates as it is usability and applications available throughout the enterprise, according to a top official at IBM Global Services. Speaking at the inaugural 802.11-Planet Conference and Expo here at the Santa Clara Convention […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The real issue with wireless Local Area Networks deployment isn’t so much access, costs or even data rates as it is usability and applications available throughout the enterprise, according to a top official at IBM Global Services. Speaking at the inaugural 802.11-Planet Conference and Expo here at the Santa Clara Convention […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Task Group assigned to explore the next-generation wireless Ethernet standard has finally ended months of bickering and late Thursday agreed on terms for a new wireless standard called 802.11g. The consensus represents an eleventh-hour save for the Intersil-backed proposal. For months, Task Group “G” has been trying […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Task Group assigned to explore the next-generation standard for 802.11 has a difficult choice to make in the next day or so. For months, Task Group “G” has been trying to come to terms on a modulation scheme that would allow 802.11 wireless LAN (WLAN) hardware to […]

MobileStar Network Corp., the high-profile Richardson, Texas-based company that aims to set up a national wireless network using the IEEE 802.11b standard, has entered into an agreement to sell its assets to Bellevue, Wash.-based VoiceStream Wireless for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition will be done through the oversight of the bankruptcy courts. Although the wireless […]

Systemonic of Germany has acquired the products and intellectual property of the RF Networking group of Raytheon Commercial Ventures Inc. as part of a multi-faceted agreement that also gives Lexington, Mass.-based Raytheon Co. an undisclosed stake in the Dresden, Germany-based wireless silicon provider. The deal, announced on Wednesday, is significant because it will give Systemonic […]

Systemonic of Germany has acquired the products and intellectual property of the RF Networking group of Raytheon Commercial Ventures Inc. as part of a multi-faceted agreement that also gives Lexington, Mass.-based Raytheon Co. an undisclosed stake in the Dresden, Germany-based wireless silicon provider. The deal, announced on Wednesday, is significant because it will give Systemonic […]

Buffalo Technology (USA) Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nagoya, Japan-based Melco Inc., on Wednesday became the first equipment vendor to adapt Texas Instruments’ ACX100 technology for commercial usage in an attempt to increase data transmission rates using the 2.4GHz spectrum beyond the 11 megabits per second (Mbps) as outlined by the IEEE’s 802.11b specification. Melco […]

Egghead.com Inc., the troubled Menlo Park, Calif.-based e-tailer that in August filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, has suspended all operations and stopped taking new orders. Egghead.com filed for bankruptcy on Aug. 15. The company announced an agreement to sell assets to Fry’s Electronics under the bankruptcy proceeding. At that time, Egghead.com decided to slash […]

Contrary to reports of its demise, wireless Internet service provider Mobilestar Network Corp. said it has not shut down its national wireless network and has no plans to do so. “Our demise has been greatly exaggerated. The network is working,” President and CEO Robert Kaiser told InternetNews.com. Word of the network’s demise first surfaced earlier […]

Extending its ties with a leading supplier of silicon technology, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) on Friday announced it has teamed with Intersil Corp. (NASDAQ:ISIL) to accelerate deployment of current and future Wi-Fi wireless technology to its business line of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) products. Intel already incorporates Intersil chip sets into its Anypoint line of […]

NeuLevel Inc., which has been appointed the exclusive registry operator for the .BIZ top-level domain (TLD) by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Thursday said that the .BIZ Registry will not go live until Wednesday, Nov. 7. The new TLD was previously scheduled to become effective on Oct. 23. The .BIZ TLD […]