Author: Wayne Slavin

Sitting in the San Francisco airport last Sunday, Don DePalma checked his e-mail on his laptop. The sight was hardly unusual. Like many itinerant executives, DePalma frequently uses Wi-Fi "hot spots" in airline VIP lounges, coffee shops and other locales around the country. Via [usatoday.com]

The rush to deploy WiMAX gained momentum Tuesday with the announcement by Xilinx of a suite of programmable solutions designed to speed product design for the emerging wide-area wireless standard. Via [eetimes.com]

The new access points give mobile and home workers a more secure way to connect to the Internet and office systems. Via [informationweek.com]

Canon has introduced a new wireless digital camera, PowerShot SD430 Digital ELPH Wireless, that will allow user to beam photos from the camera directly to their computer and automatically print the image. Via [extremetech.com]

Paris is the top European city for free Wi-Fi access, according to a survey by Freehotspot.com. Via [vnunet.com]

Google wrote grandly of the importance of Wi-Fi in its recent proposal for free wireless here, but the search company downplayed its own potential role in delivering Internet service. Via [pcworld.com]

With wireless service providers and equipment manufacturers attempting to sort out the future course of mobile broadband data, some say the “right combination of 3G, WiMAX and Wi-Fi" will be needed to achieve the most success. Via [eet.com]

The latest wireless technologies are all touted as having faster data transfer speeds and greater ranges. Just don't expect them to work with future devices. Via [vnunet.com]

With 802.11 wireless LANs (WLANs), an AP (AP) is set to a specific radio frequency (RF) channel. As part of the association process, each user's wireless network interface card scans all channels, detects the AP, and then tunes to the channel of the AP to complete a connection. In order to deploy an effective wireless...

The next generation of wireless Internet service is a step closer with the opening of a WiMax demonstration network in Santa Clara by TeleCis Wireless Inc. Via [sanjose.bizjournals.com]

Imagine having a cordless phone that can make calls anywhere you can find a wireless network. That's what the upcoming UTStarcom F1000 phone promises — a Wi-Fi phone connection you can take with you. Via [seattletimes.nwsource.com]

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced it is the first test and measurement equipment manufacturer to join the ZigBee Alliance, an association of more than 100 companies working to enable cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. Via [eetimes.com]

The papers are signed: Cellnet Technology of Atlanta and Wireless Facilities, Inc. (WFI) of San Diego will partner to install a citywide Wi-Fi network in Madison, Wisconsin, extending to the county airport. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

A European research team has successfully launched and tested the world's first Wi-Fi balloon, raising hopes that high-tech dirigibles could be used to provide wireless communications in remote regions or disaster areas. Via [vnunet.com]

The support gives companies added assurance that their Intel-based devices will interoperate with Cisco Wi-Fi access points. Via [informationweek.com]