The move will allow commercial network operators to run Wi-Fi hot spots based on 802.11a. The 802.11a standard is significantly faster than 802.11b, which existing hot spots are based on. The government has announced plans to deregulate the 5GHz...
European growth outpaced the US, increasing its worldwide share of wi-fi usage from 31 per cent to 36 per cent in the previous six months. Worldwide wi-fi hotspot usage by business users shot up by 68 per cent in the first half of this year...
By 2005, research firm Gartner expects that there will be 44 million users of wireless 'hot spots' worldwide and that 80 per cent of all commercial notebooks sold will be wireless-enabled. In addition, a wide variety of hotels, restaurants and...
Leading Wi-Fi chip manufacturers will be announcing a new industry forum on Monday to help accelerate efforts to create a new, faster Wi-Fi standard, according to a source close to the companies. Atheros, Broadcom, Intel and Marvel and have...
The Wi-Fi gear market continued its rapid growth in 2003, led mostly by consumer holiday sales, but companies saw a slight shuffle in their market share rankings. The overall revenue for Wi-Fi wireless networking gear was up more than 55 per cent...
Nobody seems to doubt the usefulness of Wi-Fi for the modern mobile worker - though some suggest portable may be a better phrase than mobile. Trains and planes make perfect sense, for obvious reasons, but some businesses appear to be undermining...