Eric Griffith

Come September 26, the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to make a big splash in that last major untapped wireless LAN market: China. The industry group and Analysys International say there could be a market worth $10.3 billion there in 2008, so the Alliance is working to create its first China Wi-Fi Summit. Still, this isn’t an […]

Monster makes cables — the kind you buy for hooking up audio and video equipment. In an increasingly wireless world, what’s a cable company to do? Join in, that’s what. Today, Monster announced a strategic partnership with chipmaker Tzero Technologies of Sunnyvale, California — a partnership that will result in Monster using Tzero’s ultrawideband chips […]

NextWave Wireless has purchased IPWireless of San Bruno, California for $100 million US ($25 million cash plus $75 million in NextWave common stock), with as much as $135 million more to be paid based on revenue milestones over the next two years. IPWireless took on WiMax with 3G-based backhaul technologies, specifically 3GPP TDD Universal Mobile […]

Wayport has signed a number of hotel chains in Northern Europe to use its Wi-Fi services. They include First Hotels, Restel Hotels (which manages Cumulus, Holiday Inn, Ramada and Rantasipi Hotels in Finland), Norlandia Hotels & Resorts and Zleep hotels. This covers 80 hotel properties. Guests can get access from a public PC Wayport that […]

It’s no secret that wired equivalent privacy (WEP) is considered the biggest joke in security since those guys in the red shirts on Star Trek. Last week, the joke got even funnier when researchers managed to crack 104-bit WEP encryption in less than a minute. With the right tools and some time, anyone can crack […]

Wi-Fi chipmakers are always claiming their latest product is the “most integrated,” but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not true. The latest example is Atheros’ AR2417, the replacement for the AR5005G, the company’s bestselling chip ever. Both are part of the AR5007 family of chips. Like its predecessor, the AR2417 is 802.11g-specific silicon — this […]

Talk of Wi-Fi in the skies is again on the rise after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced this week that cellular phones on passenger flights would be a big no-no. Even the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) agreed. The question remained, what about other types of wireless for Internet connections? Apparently, that’s still […]

The Macintosh specialists at TidBITS.com have again teamed up with Wi-Fi pundit/specialist Glenn Fleishman (of Wi-Fi Networking News fame), and the result is a new electronic book called “Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Network.” This is an update on their previous book on the 802.11b/g Airport. The new Apple Airport Extreme debuted in […]

EarthLink has been picked by Arlington County in Virginia to provide a county-wide Wi-Fi network. The deal has been in the works for several months, going back to the date of EarthLink’s first announced network in Anaheim, California. The network, once fully installed, will cover 26 square miles and provide wireless broadband for residents and […]

Denver, Colorado-based Ricochet Networks is moving its hometown wireless network to a new technology. At least, it’s new for them. You may know it as Wi-Fi and WiMax. Remember Ricochet? Metricom launched the wireless ISP way back in 1994 and unwired 21 major U.S. cities with proprietary wireless modems — but the company went into […]

Anyone with a $400 Nokia N800 Internet Tablet (see review) can get free access to the Internet via any EarthLink municipal Wi-Fi Network until the end of this year. Likewise, anyone with a $200 Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) gaming system can get online for no charge at any T-Mobile Hotspot for the next six months; […]

T-Mobile Hotspots’ latest are big hotspots indeed. They’ll have “curb to nose” (of the plane) coverage at both Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT) in California. Both are operated by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), a city department, which has signed a multi-year deal with T-Mobile for the 802.11b (not 11g) […]