Eric Griffith

This week at the IFA show in Berlin, Germany, Daewoo Electronics of Korea is demonstrating consumer electronics with wireless video capabilities provided by ViXS Systems of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. According to Ciricia Proulx, director of marketing at ViXS, this is more than just a partnership to show off some technology. “[Daewoo is] moving ahead with […]

Long hours, long waits, and a lot of money: that can pretty much sum up the $5 billion dollar a year coin-operated laundry (AKA laundromat) industry. According to the Coin Laundry Association, most laundromats are open on average from 6am to 10pm, they are found in almost every neighborhood in America, and they service about […]

Got facilities you need to keep an eye on even though they’re several miles from your headquarters and, worse, you can’t get any electricity (let alone Ethernet) to an exterior location where you’d like to mount a camera? Hutton Communications of Dallas, Texas, might have the answer, and they call it Solacam. The Solacam (that’s […]

D-Link of Irvine, Calif., today announced that it is launching a new product line called AirSpot that will serve as public/private gateways for use by businesses to start their own hotspots. The first product in the line is the AirSpot DSA-3100, which will provide a firewall (NAT and SPI), Denial of Service protection, MAC address […]

Netgear of Santa Clara, Calif., today announced some of the first products that will use the speed boosts called Super G and Super A/G provided in the latest generation of Atheros chipsets for 802.11a and 802.11g. The claim is the products could be capable of as much as 108Mbps. Netgear is announcing a new set […]

MSNBC.com, the Internet site for the MSNBC 24-hour cable news channel run by Microsoft and the news division of the NBC television network (owned by General Electric , has launched a digitial news service targeting mobile professionals with laptops running Intel’s Centrino (though any Windows PC online can use it). The service, called MSNBC Wireless […]

Aruba Wireless Networks of San Jose, Calif., this week announced an RF management application called RF Director that will work with the company’s line of wireless LAN switches. The program will accept plug-ins, including some announced by the company as well as future plug-ins developed by third-parties. “The motivation for this application is the fact […]

AirWave Wireless of San Mateo, Calif., this week announced the latest upgrade to its AirWave Management Platform (AMP). Version 2.4 of the software tackles something that AirWave COO Greg Murphy says customers have been asking for again and again, and that’s support for legacy access points: older products that many enterprises made significant investments in […]

Motorola of Arlington Heights, Ill., and NEC America, the affiliate of NEC Corp. headquartered in Irving, Texas, announced this week their plan to work together on a system combining cellular technologies with data and voice over IP (VoIP) on wireless LANs. Motorola will provide a mobility manager component for taking care of the hand-off between […]

In May, Verizon won praise for readying 1,000 Wi-Fi access points in downtown New York. Asked for comment, SBC executives said they had their own plan and wouldn’t wait to evaluate the success its Baby Bell brethren before charging ahead — it wasn’t just bluster. Today, the San Antonio, Texas, company unveiled FreedomLink, the telecom […]

Verizon Wireless of Bedminster, N.J., owned in part by both Verizon Communications and Vodafone , today announced its first foray into the Wi-Fi hotspot business. Verizon Wireless Wi-Fi will not encompass a hotspot network created by Verizon Wireless, nor even the pay-phone-based hotspots launched in New York City by parent Verizon. Instead, it’s a roaming […]

Chipmakers Intersil and Atheros Communciations both released separate announcements today to say that D-Link of Irvine, Calif., will be using chipsets from both companies in its future product lines. Intersil, which recently announced the sale of its entire PRISM WLAN line of chipsets to GlobalspanVirata, will be selling D-Link its 802.11g-based PRISM GT chips for […]