Wi-Fi News
Big cable companies pooling Wi-Fi hotspot resources
The big cable companies know that if they want to stay relevant in the wireless market, they can't do it on their own.
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...
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