With the auction for the UK's broadband radio spectrum due to begin this month, many operators are promoting the wireless local loop as a viable alternative to cabled solutions. But problems with interference and dead spots on wireless LANs will...
But essentially the company is sticking by one of its mainstay principles: Leave the computing work to large central servers, not to desktop machines. Things have been tough for Sun Microsystems, but Chief Executive Scott McNealy wants analysts to...
The principles are obvious. Last week, I was reflecting on the vulnerability of widely used operating systems to malicious code such as viruses. In very timely fashion, PalmSource has come along with proposals to harden the Palm operating system in...
The last time I counted I had six wireless networks in my home: Wi-Fi/802.11b for the wireless LAN, DECT for the phone; Bluetooth for the 'little things'; GSM/GPRS for the mobile; RFID for a tagging system and a proprietary system for the car alarm.
A US citizen is thought to have become the first person to be accused of hacking a wireless network in order to send spam. Nicholas Tombros, 37, is charged under the US CAN-SPAM act, which aims to clamp down on unsolicited junk mail.
Explosive expansion in the number of citywide wireless networks is being predicted as local government and ISPs get switched on to the opportunities ubiquitous wi-fi can offer - economic and otherwise.
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