Eric Griffith

30,000 hotspots — that’s how many venues GoRemote says are now available on its Global Network. The jump comes from adding the 6,000+ locations run by T-Mobile in North America. GoRemote president and CEO Tom Thimot says he went after T-Mobile hard: “No question, we chased them…I don’t want to belittle our other partners, but […]

Despite having actual products available from over 100 equipment manufacturers, Zensys, the creator of the wireless mesh home control technology called Z-Wave (which has its own 125-member Z-Wave Alliance of partners), struggles somewhat in the shadow of the ZigBee Alliance. The latter group barely has products available. Z-Wave’s fortunes may change, however, with new partnerships […]

It probably caught some by surprise to see Hewlett-Packard (HP) listed as one of the two final candidates for system integrator of the Wireless Philadelphia project (the other contender is ISP EarthLink). After all, HP isn’t well known for installing and running metropolitan wireless networks, right? Maybe so in the U.S., but Enrique Barkey, HP’s […]

Despite some fits and spurts, Juniper Networks has long been about the only major networking vendor without a major wireless LAN strategy. It’s possible that working with a WLAN switch vendor might change that. Meru Networks probably hopes so. The two companies have entered what Meru’s vice president of marketing, Ben Gibson, calls a co-marketing […]

Fortress Technologies of Tampa, Florida will soon have a new product to sell to customers — a version of the AirMagnet Enterprise distributed system. “AirMagnet has a full range of products for IDS [intrusion detection system], IPS [intrusion prevention] and performance management,” says Rich Mironov, vice president of marketing at the Sunnyvale, California-based company. “We […]

Chip giant Intel and networking colossus Cisco aren’t strangers, having worked together in the past on, among other things, the Cisco Compatible Extensions (CCX) program to better hook CCX-using laptops to Cisco WLAN infrastructure equipment. The city of Cleveland—the pilot city for Intel’s Digital Communities Initiative—is using Cisco equipment, and working closely with Intel and […]

The power amplifier on Wi-Fi chips is the circuit that controls the juice, and as such can also help to extend range. Many Wi-Fi chip vendors make their own PAs, but a growing number of PAs are coming in the form of front-end modules that connect with almost any type of 802.11-based chipset. The move […]

It’s no secret that the mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, wants wireless. Last year, he said of city plans to install a wireless cloud, “We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless Internet service.” The City by the Bay took a big step toward gaining that citywide Wi-Fi service […]

iPass of Redwood Shores, Calif., has had some success providing dial-up and Wi-Fi to corporate users to let them connect from just about anywhere —  so it’s only natural that the hot 3G technology called EV-DO would be integrated next. The first steps have already been taken to support the technology, but this week the […]

For many, Motorola is synonymous with wireless, but the company is moving into a new area for broadband—power lines. Yesterday it was announced that Motorola will be using chipsets (model INT5200) from Intellon of Ocala, Fla., to provide HomePlug 1.0-based Broadband over Powerline (BPL) products for utility companies looking to turn into Internet Service Providers. […]

Free Wi-Fi is not hard to find, but you usually don’t find it in big corporate chains. Places like Starbucks, Borders, McDonalds and others have teamed with big providers and usually charge a fee, whether hourly, daily, or monthly, for access on their in-store networks. So it’s somewhat unique for a 73-year-old hamburger-joint fast-food chain […]

Rob Markovich, the CEO of WLAN security company Network Chemistry, calls the company’s Sensor Agent Software the key to its intrusion detection and prevention system. So, naturally, he’s giving it away. The Sensor Agent is available for free to any WLAN vendors that want to build it into their products. “What’s best for customers is […]