Eric Griffith

Public Internet access solutions company NetNearU of College Station, TX, — which got its start in kiosks — is bringing a wireless kiosk to a hotspot venue near you. This week at the 802.11 Planet Conference & Expo, NetNearU will debut and demonstrate its new NNU Runtime Engine for Wi-Fi. This software product will run […]

You’ve got a presentation to give, with collateral materials including slides, some software downloads, and a few HTML or Acrobat -based pages of extra data. So how do you make sure everyone in the audience can get the info on their laptop? Via the wireless Web, of course. However, if you or the show organizers […]

Wireless Internet access in public places is becoming all the rage in North America today as companies like iPass, Boingo, GRIC, and even the cellular carriers like T-Mobile, and many others try to see who will come out on top in the hotspot world. That race has yet to be won, but according to forecasts […]

When talking about Wi-Fi products, there’s always a lot of discussion about chip sets and hardware interfaces and drivers, but not so much about what software is running inside the box. Embedded software and services developer Wind River Systems of Alameda, CA, has been living under the radar like that for some time. But a […]

Verizon Communications has announced plans to help small businesses expand their data networks using Wi-Fi. The Verizon WLAN Solutions program is launching first in the Boston, MA, area. Eventually, the program will go nationwide. Unlike other carriers such as T-Mobile that are building hotspot networks to work as a compliment to their cellular networks, this […]

WildPackets, the company behind the AiroPeek wireless packet analyzers, has upgraded its support for Atheros-based 802.11a in time to become the tool of choice in the California lab behind Wi-Fi interoperability testing. The San Jose, CA-based lab of Agilent’s Interoperability Certification Labs (ICL) will be using AiroPeek NX, the professional version of WildPacket’s product that […]

By some reports, this year’s Comdex Fall in Las Vegas, NV, is the smallest in memory, and could even be the last of it’s kind if some rumors are to be believed. But even if Comdex isn’t what it used to be, it’s still the hotspot for pre-holiday product announcements in the tech industry. And […]

For those who have been putting off buying an 802.11b-based wireless LAN because it’s too slow at that measly 11 or 22 megabits per second (Mbps), yet don’t want higher-speed 802.11a products because they aren’t compatible with all the WLAN equipment already out there, or you don’t want to spend the extra cash on the […]

The Comdex show used to mean big booths with lots to see for all the paid attendees. However, not all the big names setup for the public, especially these days. For example, Intersil of Irvine, CA, will be at the show, but only in a private suite to meet with vendors, partners, and the press. […]

Santa Monica, CA-based hotspot aggregator Boingo Wireless today released client software for Pocket PC 2002 units so Boingo users can use the personal digital assistant (PDA) instead of just a Windows laptop. The software, called Pocket Boingo, also comes with a newly launched Web site at pda.boingo.com . Currently the site carries basic info and […]

Just when you thought that 802.11b had all the possible extra speed wrung out of it that could happen in the real world, someone finds a way to get more. Double, in fact. That’s what Irvine, CA-based D-Link is claiming about the firmware upgrade that will be available in December for its AirPlus products, which […]

This week, the Federal Communications Commission gave MeshNetworks’ long awaited MeshLAN multi-hoping 802.11 network products full regulatory approval so the company can sell its technology nationwide. “What we were doing was working under an experimental license,” explains Rick Rotondo, VP of technical marketing at MeshNetworks. “We could do trials and demos but we couldn’t sell […]