No more traffic jams thanks to new Wi-Fi technology
The German government is funding a project into a new car-to-car wireless standard. The idea is to use 802.11a and b wireless technologies to form ad hoc wireless networks between cars that relate information about traffic jams and road conditions to one another and so improve road safety and efficiency...more
The German government is funding a project into a new car-to-car wireless standard. The idea is to use 802.11a and b wireless technologies to form ad hoc wireless networks between cars that relate information about traffic jams and road conditions to one another and so improve road safety and efficiency...more
Vodafone to offer in-flight Wi-Fi
Vodafone has agreed to allow its mobile data customers to use Boeing's Connexion in-flight Wi-Fi service, the mobile phone network said last week. The deal is essentially a classic roaming arrangement, with Connexion's airborne access points operating like any terrestrial hotspot to connect a Wi-Fi enabled notebook to the Internet. Vodafone offers a line of Mobile Connect data card products that provide 3G, WLAN and GPRS connectivity, along with its Wi-Fi equipped VPA III PocketPC phone ...more
Vodafone has agreed to allow its mobile data customers to use Boeing's Connexion in-flight Wi-Fi service, the mobile phone network said last week. The deal is essentially a classic roaming arrangement, with Connexion's airborne access points operating like any terrestrial hotspot to connect a Wi-Fi enabled notebook to the Internet. Vodafone offers a line of Mobile Connect data card products that provide 3G, WLAN and GPRS connectivity, along with its Wi-Fi equipped VPA III PocketPC phone ...more
Wireless throughput hits 1GbpsResearchers at Siemens Communications claim to have broken the speed record for transmitting wireless data after demonstrating throughput rates of 1Gbps ...more
Eurostar rolls out Wi-Fi in stations
Eurostar has announced its two UK terminals have gone wireless -- with Wi-Fi being introduced at both Waterloo and Ashford International stations this morning. Wireless Internet access will be available in the departure lounges and business areas of the terminals, with Broadreach Networks providing the service ...more
Eurostar has announced its two UK terminals have gone wireless -- with Wi-Fi being introduced at both Waterloo and Ashford International stations this morning. Wireless Internet access will be available in the departure lounges and business areas of the terminals, with Broadreach Networks providing the service ...more
Wi-fi web reaches farmers in Peru
The centres use open source software and affordable computers
A network of community computer centres, linked by wireless technology, is providing a helping hand for poor farmers in Peru ...more
The centres use open source software and affordable computers
A network of community computer centres, linked by wireless technology, is providing a helping hand for poor farmers in Peru ...more
Wi-Fi phones are on your network, like it or not
Wireless LAN-enabled mobile phones and handhelds are on the way, whether network administrators are ready for them or not. ABI Research raised its forecast for this year's shipments of wireless handsets in a new report, and predicted that Wi-Fi enabled phones are about to swamp the market, creating fresh complications for enterprises managing wireless LANs ...
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Wireless LAN-enabled mobile phones and handhelds are on the way, whether network administrators are ready for them or not. ABI Research raised its forecast for this year's shipments of wireless handsets in a new report, and predicted that Wi-Fi enabled phones are about to swamp the market, creating fresh complications for enterprises managing wireless LANs ...
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Getting serious about Wi-Fi management
The Radicati Group pegs the penetration of Wi-Fi in the enterprise at 50 percent by 2008. Cut that number in half and it's still huge. So now that Wi-Fi is becoming a standard part of enterprise infrastructure, it's time to get serious about security and management ...more
The Radicati Group pegs the penetration of Wi-Fi in the enterprise at 50 percent by 2008. Cut that number in half and it's still huge. So now that Wi-Fi is becoming a standard part of enterprise infrastructure, it's time to get serious about security and management ...more
WiFI availability up, prices down
A new survey from BroadGroup reveals that European hotspot deployment is approaching 27,000. Prices however are continuing to trend downwards, but still remain higher than the US and Asia ...more
A new survey from BroadGroup reveals that European hotspot deployment is approaching 27,000. Prices however are continuing to trend downwards, but still remain higher than the US and Asia ...more
British Library boasts London's largest WiFi hotspot
The British Library has launched wireless Internet connectivity in the public areas of its building at St Pancras. The service offers wireless Internet access (WiFi) throughout the 11 reading rooms, the auditorium, the café and restaurant and the outdoor Piazza area. The mainly indoor WiFi zone will allow the 3,000 visitors the Library receives each day to connect to the internet and access email using either their existing service provider or by using the Library's own pay-as-you-go service ...more
The British Library has launched wireless Internet connectivity in the public areas of its building at St Pancras. The service offers wireless Internet access (WiFi) throughout the 11 reading rooms, the auditorium, the café and restaurant and the outdoor Piazza area. The mainly indoor WiFi zone will allow the 3,000 visitors the Library receives each day to connect to the internet and access email using either their existing service provider or by using the Library's own pay-as-you-go service ...more