Wi-Fi News
10 top reasons for integrating Wi-Fi radios in small cellular cells
With the growing demand for mobile data, cellular service operators are increasingly turning to small cells -- picocells, microcells, metrocells and...
Wi-Fi Alliance's Passpoint program on track for June certifications
The Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint Program, which aims to make Wi-Fi hotspots work more like cellular and LTE networks, is on track to...
Intel buys $75 million worth of patents from Aware Inc.
Aware Inc., a Massachusetts-based DSL signal processing specialist, announced this morning that it had agreed to sell $75 million in Wi-Fi, LTE and...
How to hack your own Wi-Fi network
Attempting to "hack" into your own wireless network can help you spot potential Wi-Fi security vulnerabilities and figure out ways to protect against...
Some new devices to mess around with Wi-Fi
Shaw review Stem Innovation's iZON Remote Room Monitor, Belkin's Wireless Dual-Band Travel Router.
Xirrus unveils rugged Wi-Fi 'super access point'
WLAN vendor Xirrus announced its first outdoor Wi-Fi products, a hardened access point and two sealed enclosures that can encase its indoor product...
At 100 years old, Fenway Park brims with new technology
A question-and-answer session with Steve Conley, IT director for the Boston Red Sox, about Metro Ethernet, Wi-Fi andmore.
Cisco Linksys routers bring the cloud home
Cisco has rolled out a new line of home Wi-Fi routers that embed application intelligence for managing devices connected to the home network.
Wi-Fi complaints prompt Apple to replace some 3rd-gen iPads
A flurry of Wi-Fi complaints from owners of the new iPad has pushed Apple to replace some units as part of a full-scale investigation of flakey...
Designing 'iPad WLANs' poses new, renewed challenges
Complications that the influx of Apple iPads and iPhones bring to enterprise Wi-Fi networks and wireless LAN administrators are illustrated vividly...
Linksys Powerline connections: Wired without wires
Last week here in Gearhead I discussed my ongoing saga of trying to get decent IP DSL service from AT&T U-Verse.
Apple's Bonjour protocol tamed, managed for enterprise Wi-Fi
How can iPads and iPhones discover and use projectors, Apple TVs, printers and the like without flooding the enterprise Wi-Fi network with multicast...
2 HotMobile papers that grabbed us: WalkSafe and SpinLoc
The recent HotMobile conference in San Diego attracted dozens of top mobile technology researchers who presented papers on their latest findings....
Qualcomm adds IPv4/IPv6 to embedded Wi-Fi chip
Qualcomm has released a low-power 802.11n radio chip designed for embedded machine-to-machine wireless communications for smart building and smart...
Motorola's NVG510 DSL modem... not very good
Gibbs is seriously unimpressed with AT&T's choice of the NVG510 DSL modem
AT&T on iPad tethering: We're working on it
Although AT&T and Verizon both offer comparable plans for the new iPad, there's one feature that AT&T is still lacking: tethering.
San Jose Wi-Fi net could mark rethinking of 'muni Wi-Fi'
A new downtown Wi-Fi network being built in San Jose, Calif., could indicate a resurgence, based on new approaches, to the ill-fated and brief "muni...
Enterprise IT likes what it sees in new iPad
The new third-generation Apple iPad is generally a hit with a sampling of enterprise users, based on quick reactions from half a dozen IT...
Enterprise IT, users like what they see in new iPad
The new third-generation Apple iPad is generally a hit with a sampling of enterprise users, based on quick reactions from half a dozen IT...
How Passpoint could make Wi-Fi hotspots more like cellular data services
Imagine if Wi-Fi worked more like our mobile data services that gave us wireless connectivity without the constant interruptions that come from...
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