Eric Griffith

At the interim meeting of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group this week in Vancouver, British Columbia, a study group was formed to begin looking into eventually creating an industry-recognized standard for wireless mesh networking. This first step is still potentially a long way from the creation of an 802.11 Task Group, which would eventually be […]

Not many markets can say they had a 214% increase in units sold last year from 2002, but Wi-Fi can. And this isn’t even counting enterprise sales. In-Stat/MDR of Scottsdale, Ariz., released a report this week called “Joe Schmo Has Wi-Fi: The Wireless Home Becomes a Reality” which takes a look at the numbers behind […]

When Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaking giant Intel began shipping the Centrino chipset add-on with the Pentium-M processor last March, the wireless connection was 2.4GHz 802.11b only, running at 11Mbps. Yet by that time, 802.11g, the faster (54Mbps) and backwards-compatible 2.4GHz standard was already becoming the hot way to connect throughout the WLAN industry. Today the […]

There’s no lack of tools for wirelessly sharing digital data these days, but Pepper Computing has built an entire platform around it. Their Pepper Keeper software environment can run on PCs or Macs and allows organization and sharing of group resources, from important files to family photos. It even includes a localized IM client for […]

If all it takes to get people to sign-up to use a hotspot is the super-fast wireless Internet access, why does Wayport keep handing out other content? Just another value added to the service, they say. This week, the Austin, Texas, based provider of wired and wireless connections around the world began offering a third […]

Imagine knowing exactly where your equipment in the warehouse is at all times, or tracking the location of employees as they wander around the office — even if they’re not using their computer or PDA. The Big Brother-ish aspects aside, this is a future wireless LANs are helping bring about, and sooner rather than later. […]

The trend seems to say: Wi-Fi users think they’re invulnerable. AirDefense , the Alpharetta, Georgia-based maker of wireless LAN security, monitoring and intrusion detection solutions, has handed in its usual report on the state of wireless use from a major tradeshow — in this case our own Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo which took place […]

Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) is a cellular-based, wireless specification that lets users get onto the Internet and other packet-switched networks. It’s been used for a while by police and fire officers in a number of locations to get real-time data at 19.2Kbps while in the field. And now it’s going away. AT&T specifically is […]

Chris Barry, the principal at CNY Ventures in Syracuse, N.Y., left his job a couple of years ago to become a full-time stay-at-home dad. With his child now ready for daycare, he wanted to find a business opportunity that would fill his time and keep him interested. When he read an article a few months […]

After months of speculation and waiting, T-Mobile has announced a partnership to let outsiders roam on its public Wi-Fi network. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company has struck a deal with hotspot aggregator iPass to allow mobile professionals who use the iPassConnect software full access to the T-Mobile network throughout the United States, without going through a […]

San Mateo, Calif.-based PRISMIQ today announced the second generation of its Media Player product, the Media Player/Recorder (MP/R). Like the original, the new unit will have a CardBus slot in the back for adding 802.11g/b support and has integrated Ethernet, either of which can used for watching video on your TV even when the files […]

It turns out Palm OS 4.0 products do have an option for Wi-Fi. Yesterday we reported that future drivers for the SanDisk Secure Digital (SD) Wi-Fi card would only support palmOne devices running the Palm OS 5.x. The SanDisk card already supports most Pocket PCs with SDIO slots. That seemed to leave hardware running Palm […]