Although Wi-Fi is one of the hottest issues in the IT sector at present, there are worrying signs that both rollout and take-up of the technology are undershooting industry targets. The Wireless LAN Event, held at London Olympia last week, heard...
The idea of massive, wholesale Wi-Fi networks is gaining popularity, as witnessed by the birth of The Cloud in the UK this year. When an executive from the ubiquitous coffee chain Starbucks admitted at a recent Wi-Fi conference that usage in...
Wi-Fi is in danger of being overhyped, and to some degree we may be guilty of that by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on our Centrino advertising campaign," he said earlier this week at the Telecosm Conference.
While the US is currently holding the crown of most prominent Wi-Fi champion, by 2008 Europe will be the most important wireless technology market in the world, predicts US research group Insight Research Corporation.
Icomera, the company supplying the Wi-Fi service to GNER said use of the service is growing at 77 per cent week on week. But the evidence from customer feedback is that train Wi-Fi is a hit. There's also evidence that people are upgrading to first...
Wi-Fi hotspot users should be on their guard for malicious wireless access points that steal data. Cranfield's head of information systems, professor Brian Collins, said: "Users can also protect themselves by ensuring that their Wi-Fi device has...