Eric Griffith

GRIC Communications of Milpitas, CA, which last week announced a flat-rate “business class” Wi-Fi service bundle, jumped to what they call the second layer of their strategy, offering a complete security package — what one spokesperson calls “GRIC’s strategy for beating iPass and Boingo in the enterprise.” The package, coming in May of this year, […]

Linksys, one of the leaders in home and small office networking equipment, has provided a product that will have users of satellite Internet connections drooling with envy: the Linksys Ricochet Router. This product will let subscribers to the proprietary Ricochet wireless Wide Area Network for Internet access share the connection with multiple PCs. The Ricochet […]

At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2003 in San Diego this week, research and advisory firm Gartner said that even though the number of “frequent” WLAN users in North America will shoot from 4.2 million this year to 31 million by 2007, the chances are slim that the providers of public access hotspots will see any profit […]

What more could you possibly need at a Wi-Fi hotspot? You’ve already got your caffe latte and your laptop running a wireless Internet connection at broadband speed. Well what’s a computer without a printer? Securtix Corporation of Houston, TX, wants to provide the printer — in color no less — at your local hotspot. The […]

GRIC Communications of Milpitas, CA, announced a flat-rate “business class” Wi-Fi service bundle this week. Users of the company’s GRIC MobileOffice client software can use it for instant connection to GRIC networks setup at airports, hotels, and convention centers around the world. The company says it’s got a larger global footprint than most, with installations […]

Transat Technologies of Southlake, TX, which rolled out its first commercial product late last year with Swiss company TOGEWAnet, is ready for phase two. This week they announced the availability of software called “Fast Enabler,” a product that runs on the core hotspot network and lets users with the Fast Enabler client software roam to […]

Minneapolis, MN-based Network Instruments today announced a new upgrade to its Observer line of products, adding support for the 2.4GHz 802.11g draft standard for wireless networking. Observer, currently at version 8.3, already supports 802.11b and the 5GHz 802.11a specifications from the IEEE. “We had a good partnership with Atheros, and thanks to their cooperation we […]

Making monitor’s is no longer enough for Viewsonic. This week at the Microsoft Mobility Developers Conference being held at the CTIA Wireless 2003 show in New Orleans, the company announced its Visual Solutions initiative, which the company hopes will spur developers into adding wireless controls and functions to enterprise products over a Wi-Fi network using […]

Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC), a subsidiary of Toshiba, has created a reference design called the AVM79R for future media center appliances in the home. To make sure it’s future proof, it’ll be wireless with XCode, the integrated circuit from ViXs Systems of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which adjusts video bit-rates, formats, and resolutions on the […]

It only seems like Intel is the only newsmaker in the world of Wi-Fi this week. With events taking place around the world today to celebrate the launch of the Centrino platform — a Pentium M (for mobile) processor coupled with 802.11b (and eventually 802.11a/b/g) — and several cross-promotional deals with hotspot vendors and venue […]

AirDefense of Atlanta, GA, this week unveiled upgraded modules for its eponymously-named AirDefense WLAN security Platform, which uses captured wireless information to react to security issues. The first is an upgrade to 3.0 for RogueWatch, a 24×7 monitoring tool for detecting rogue access points that should not be on your wireless network. RogueWatch will find […]

Agere Systems of Allentown, PA, announced today that it will be manufacturing a new WaveLAN multi-mode chipset supporting both 5GHz 802.11a and 2.4GH 802.11b and (in time for its final ratification) 11g, for production later this year. Agere plans to keep this new WaveLAN chip set small. Tony Grewe, director of strategic marketing in client […]