Eric Griffith

High-speed wireless (and wired) network provider Wayport will be providing broadband Internet service at seven properties operated by the Loews Hotels chain. The service provided will include high-speed wired Internet access in guest rooms, 802.11-based access in lobbies and bars, and a combination of wired and wireless in over 100 meeting rooms. Services will include […]

Announced rather quietly earlier in the summer, it looks like Toshiba’s Computer Systems Group (CSG) hotspot initiative is ready for phase two. The company seems poised to give the push toward increasing the number of public hotspots in the U.S. The fist part of the strategy was the June release of the Toshiba Wireless Broadband […]

In separate announcements this week, wireless access solutions provider PCTEL of Milpitas, CA, has said it will be providing its Wi-Fi Roaming Client software with future Wireless CDMA 1X and GPRS Merlin PC Card modems from Novatel and later this year with GoAmerica’s new wide area network (WAN) data service. PCTEL’s software is architected to […]

Wireless public access point maker Nomadix of Westlake Village, CA, this week released two new gateway products. The first, the Nomadix Hotspot Gateway HSG-25 is for small organizations looking to take customers online wirelessly, specifically in public areas like coffee shops and bookstores. The second, the Hospitality Service Gateway HSG-100 directly targets the motel/hotel industry. […]

We all know that in computing, everything eventually gets cheaper and faster. However, it’s usually not this fast or cheap — D-Link Systems of Irvine, CA, has announced a new version of its D-Link AirPro DWL-6000AP Dual-Band Wireless Access Point that doubles the speed and drops from $499 down to $249 in price. The DWL-6000AP […]

Rappore Technologies of San Jose, CA, hopes its Rappore Shield product, just released in version 1.0, is the solution that paranoid Wi-Fi user’s have dreamed of owning. “What we’re doing is filtering on the info and data over a wireless link, says Gabe Nault, President of Engineering at Rappore Technologies. “We allow certain ports through […]

Seattle, WA-based Starbucks Coffee, the mega-coffee chain, will be announcing a new deal with Hewlett-Packard and T-Mobile tomorrow. This pact, building on relationships Starbucks already had in place, will likely expand not only T-Mobile’s wireless foot print, but could also turn Starbucks into the largest cyber cafe chain ever, as HP/Compaq products will be provided […]

Mountain View, CA-based AirMagnet‘s Wireless LAN Handheld Analyzer product for running on Pocket PC 2002-based PDAs has been released with version 1.5. The new version now supports the 802.1X security standard, more VPN protocols, and works with Cisco Aironet AIR-LMC352 client adapter cards. The previous version, 1.2 (which we recently reviewed) only worked with the […]

Deep Blue Wireless, a San Francisco-based wireless Internet service provider (WISP) with about 20 locations in the Bay Area, has partnered with Pronto Networks to use the company’s plug-and-play hotspot controller hardware as the basis for building out their network footprint. Deep Blue was an original project “Jumpstart” partner with hereUare, a company that recently […]

Santa Ana, CA-based TROY Wireless, makers of 802.11 and Bluetooth connectivity products, have announced a new board-level product for embedding 802.11 connectivity into products for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The EtherWind-Plus is a 2.6 x 3.8 inch modular board that the company claims will fit many OEM devices. The design factors in the processor, memory, […]

Who wants to argue with an assessment that says 802.11-based connections are a “disruptive technology” headed for wide spread adoption and support by the teaming masses? That assessment pretty much sums up the findings from senior research analyst Samuel May of investment bank US Bancorp Piper Jaffray. His “The Wireless LAN Report: 802.11 — Disruptive […]

As announced in June, for a price of $65 million in cash, Sunnyvale, CA-based Proxim Corporation has purchased the 802.11/Wireless LAN hardware equipment business of Agere Systems of Allentown, PA, including the entire ORiNOCO product line. In a conference call, Proxim chairman and CEO Jonathan Zakin said that with Proxim’s 802.11a products plus ORiNOCO’s 802.11b […]