Eric Griffith

Some have called the ability to surf the Internet on a wireless network while trapped inside a airplane for hours at a time the holy grail for business travelers. Boeing, the company behind the Connexion service that provides just that on several foreign carriers, is calling it something else. The Wall Street Journal and others […]

Analyst Craig Settles is probably happy to see the trend toward cities actually thinking about networks before they build them. For example, the New York City Economic Development Corporation has issued a request for proposal (RFP) to find out if it’s even necessary, let alone feasible, for the Big Apple. Rochester, New York is investigating […]

You won’t have a problem finding a Wi-Fi signal at airports in Spain. The 23 airports run by the Spanish Airport Authority called AENA will be blanketed with mesh networks run by CN&C using multi-radio equipment from Strix Systems, both indoors and out. The networks will do far more than provide Internet access to travelers, […]

Sunnyvale, California-based Aruba Networks this week announced new features, new partners, and future plans including a look at how it will handle enterprise 802.11n when the time comes. First, the features: look for more users to get secure connections as the ArubaOS Mobility Software gets an upgrade to support as many at 1,000 802.1X authentication […]

It has long been said by the makers of high-end, multi-radio mesh products that single-radio mesh products just can’t compete. That may be the case when it comes to capacity and range, but not so with price, and that’s why a company like Motorola is now offering a new lower-end product to compete with the […]

Travelers lucky enough to stay at the five-star, five-diamond Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas get to experience some opulence during their stay. They may also get to see the staff communicating as if they’re in the cast of Star Trek. That’s because they’ve been outfitted to use Vocera voice badges for hands-free, VoWi-Fi communications […]

Skyhook Wireless announced its Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) last summer, and has kept pace by updating it (it covers 100 large metro areas in the United States) and creating software to make it useful (Loki, an add-on that makes Web browsers location-aware). Tomorrow at O’Reilly’s where 2.0 conference, the company will make public the Skyhook […]

The chipmaker that said it was the first to show 802.11n wireless transporting multiple high-definition television (HDTV) streams at once is now happy to report that its chips will find a home in consumer electronics like set-top boxes (STBs) . Royal Philips Electronics (Philips) of the Netherlands picked the WLANPlus chip from Israel’s Metalink to […]

Intel has long has its Centrino brand to bring Wi-Fi to the masses. But what has CPU rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) had? Until now, laptop OEMs would simply pair it with the Wi-Fi chip of their choice. Today, Airgo Networks says its 3rd Generation MIMO chip will be part of the offering for original […]

Motorola hasn’t announced pricing yet, but all the other details are in place for the launch of the WDE1000. This laptop PC Card will be out in Canada and the U.S. this week, and is one of the first, if not the first, to support 2.4GHz 802.11b/g and 4.9GHz frequencies in the same card. 4.9GHz […]

When the early tests of Draft N products — those using chips based on the version 1.0 draft of the 802.11n specification from the IEEE — didn’t come out too favorably and pundits said not to buy them, it’s natural that the chipmakers and vendors who stand to profit by making the hardware would be […]

Wireless in living rooms is nothing new, but bringing it to the set top boxes (STBs) that power a lot of the programming you receive is a process that has only just begun. Because it takes a lot of throughput power to deliver digital video, voice and music, Airgo Networks thinks its 3rd Generation chipset […]