Eric Griffith

Intersil Corp. of Milpitas, Calif., a long time leader in the world of Wi-Fi silicon with its PRISM line, is getting out of the wireless LAN (WLAN) business. The company announced today that a definitive agreement has been signed to sell its Wireless Networking Product Group to fabless integrated circuit (IC) maker GlobespanVirata , headquartered […]

Remember the old days? When you wanted to find a public wireless network connection in your area, you sometimes had to boot up your laptop or personal digital assistant (PDA) and see if it could sniff out a signal from an access point. If you’re lucky, maybe you saw a sign on the door or […]

CenDyne of Santa Ana, Calif., a maker of connectivity products for items like portable CD-RW drives, is releasing its first 802.11 products next week. The company concentrates on the home market, but its first Wi-Fi products won’t be the standard PC Cards and access points. Instead, they’re releasing two 802.11b Ethernet-to-Wireless adapters that are specifically […]

A new report from Communications Industry Researchers (CIR) of Charlottesville, Va., is out and overall, the lead analyst for the report says, the future “looks good for the chipmakers.” But that might not be enough for small vendors in the market. Lawrence Gasman, the lead analyst and the president of CIR, says in the report, […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance and several member companies today announced that the industry group’s fourth product certification program, for 802.11g (following the ongoing testing for interoperability of products using 802.11b, 802.11a, and Wi-Fi Protected Access), has concluded its first round. The products certified will make up the official test bed used by the Alliance labs for […]

Alpharetta, Georgia-based AirDefense previously reported on what it saw as a severe lack of wireless LAN security at the May Networld+Interop show in Las Vegas. And that was from just a two-hour monitoring sweep. Last week at our own 802.11 Planet Conference & Expo in Boston’s World Trade Center, AirDefense set up two different locations […]

While standardized video over wireless IP might be a few months away, that’s not stopping the hardware vendors from getting behind 802.11-based multimedia transmission in a big way. Toronto-based ViXs Systems is now in a technology integration and co-marketing deal with Intersil of Milpitas, Calif., in a push to make video over wireless a reality […]

When a big industry leader like Microsoft makes a big announcement, always expect several smaller announcements from companies using or supporting whatever Microsoft announced. The new Windows Mobile 2003 software for Pocket PC operating system and the new Windows Mobile brand is no different. Already today companies like Dell, JVC, Toshiba’s Computer Systems Group (CSG), […]

Cranite Systems of San Jose, Calif., which provides government certified security software for WLANs, is releasing a version of WirelessWall for small-to-medium businesses (SMB), both standalone and on a Linux box from partner Westcon, a channel provider located in Tarryton, N.Y. Previously the company only focused on the enterprise and government customers, including such big […]

New buyers and existing owners of the Prismiq MediaPlayer entertainment unit can now get the latest software upgrade to let the product connect to a home network using 802.11g or 802.11a. The MediaPlayer is a set-top box, about the size of a hard cover novel, which can connect to a home LAN via wireless or […]

Strix Systems of Westlake Village, Calif., is, in the words of chairman and CEO Bruce Brown, "really trying to get rid of the wires." The company, which was founded in 2000 but is just now announcing its first products, seems to mean it, taking the term "wireless network" literally enough that they don’t think even […]