Eric Griffith

GRIC Communications, a provider of remote access services for the mobile users of enterprises, changed its name this week to GoRemote Internet Communications . The company began life 10 years ago as AimQuest and became GRIC — short for Global Reach Internet Connection, the name of its nework — in 1998 The name change also […]

Airimba Wireless is a relatively new company, but isn’t exactly new to what it does — namely, providing Wi-Fi as the primary broadband connection in multi-dwelling units (MDUs, also known as apartment complexes). They’re also powering some hotspots. The company was born out of the acquisition of local operators in Austin, Texas, and Clemson, S.C. […]

Home networking leader Linksys, a division of networking powerhouse Cisco Systems , today made official a new product in the world of wireless media playback — an area that has yet to take the home networking world by storm. This new product can play digital audio over the wireless LAN without any help from the […]

Despite recent promising announcements that seemed to put the company on the right track after a slow start, Cometa Networks of Seattle, Wash. will announce this week that it is shutting down. Kent Hellebust, vice president of marketing at the company, told Wi-Fi Planet: “The initial funding [for the company] was for a market that […]

Extreme Digital Network (XDIGI) of Dallas has been around for a couple of years and had a couple of false starts, says CEO Joel Shapiro. After trying things like long distance wireless that turned out to be too expensive, the company has settled on the tried and true of Wi-Fi — providing hotspots. The difference […]

Price: $29.99 (depends on who’s selling it) Pros: Geiger counter-like function for Wi-Fi, goes on keychain Cons: Doesn’t tell you if nodes are open Even if you haven’t experienced the problem yet, wireless users on the road will someday: You take out a laptop and boot it up, hoping to find a Wi-Fi signal you […]

Students from Brisbane, Australia’s Queensland University of Technology School of Software Engineering and Data Communications say they’ve uncovered a flaw in the 802.11 specification that could let attackers shut down wireless networks in seconds. A report on the findings was issued by the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) called Denial of Service Vulnerability in […]

Sunnyvale, Calif. chipmaker Atheros said this week that it has begun a partnership with Mobilecast Telematics of Tokyo, Japan. Together the two are going to push for use of Atheros-based Wi-Fi for two-way communications with cars. “This is one of the first rollouts of Wi-Fi in telematics ,” says Colin Macnab, vice president of marketing […]

Microsoft is pulling out of the Wi-Fi home networking hardware business. The software giant takes knocks occasionally for its operating systems and office suites, but they’ve got a pretty good track record with hardware such as keyboards and mice. The company’s Wi-Fi product lines were no different. Microsoft first went wireless in 2002 with 802.11b […]

Despite problems over the last year from layoffs to losing management to stiff competition, Vivato of San Francisco continues to plug away. The company’s latest salvo in the Wi-Fi “switch” wars is the introduction of its second-generation product, a wall-mountable indoor base station unit that reduces the size from the original and ups the connection […]

A “softAP” is a software-based access point that would run on a computer, turning what’s normally a wireless client into a part of (or the main feature of) a network’s wireless LAN infrastructure. Companies like Intel and PCTEL have said they are backing this future approach to making it easier and cheaper to put WLANs […]

This week, mesh networking equipment maker Firetide , which has offices in California and Hawaii, announced its new product, the HotPoint 1000R for use in deploying outdoor networks. The USD$1999 unit is something customers of their indoor HotPoint unit were asking for, according to Sunil Dhar, director of product management at FireTide. The software functionality […]