Author: Wayne Slavin

Service providers are expanding the global reach of their Wi-Fi and wired ethernet networks to offer users better remote access when traveling. Via [pcworld.com]

Wireless telecommunications is still hot. Internet telephony is even hotter. Via [boston.com]

Nokia, the world's largest mobile telephone maker, aims to make its entire line-up of new business phones run on both cellular and short-range wireless connections, an executive said on Friday. Via [reuters.co.in]

Ultra high speed wi-fi connections moved closer to reality on Thursday when Intel said it would list standards for the technology later this year. Via [news.bbc.co.uk]

SBC, Boingo Wireless and Airpath wireless said Thursday that they have signed new roaming agreements that expand the breadth of those vendors' Wi-Fi hotspot networks. Via [internetweek.com]

Despite security fears, the market for wireless Lan gear will roughly double in value and triple in unit shipments by 2009, largely thanks to next-generation technology delivering higher throughput, longer range and greater capacity. Via [vnunet.com]

In a talk about the current status of its 802.11n efforts, Intel reaffirmed its backing of the TGn Sync Alliance's approach to achieving 100+Mbit/sec throughput in future-generation wireless networks. Via [eweek.com]

Internet telephony company Skype and wireless broadband operator Broadreach will offer free telephone calls over the Web from laptops and handheld computers at 350 locations in Britain, including major train stations. Via [today.reuters.co.uk]

The Senate this week activated an in-house cellular network that lets government employees place and receive calls from the bowels of the legislative body’s various buildings. They can even check their BlackBerry devices. Via [gcn.com]

Intel has unveiled its first proposals for 802.11s, a new mesh wireless networking standard. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

Wireless networks are inherently insecure, but the more layers of security they have, the less likely they are to be attacked, said Mischel Kwon, wireless security officer for the Justice Department's Management Division. Via [usatoday.com]

It's a nifty sounding word—ZigBee—but most of the excitement so far here has been around protocol stacks, control modules, and interconnections. Necessary stuff, but deadly dull unless you're building the devices yourself. But based on my walk through the ZigBee Alliance's Open House and Member Meeting at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco...

Atmel Corp. and Ember Corp. today announced a partnership on the ZigBee wireless platform. Via [reed-electronics.com]

AutoCell Laboratories Inc. has introduced an integrated RF product suite and software development kit the company said speeds time-to-market and lowers costs for network equipment vendors implementing Wi-Fi switches. Via [eet.com]

Vendors looking to make Wi-Fi products running under Linux don't have to fully develop all the wireless underpinnings for that OS. Devicescape (formerly Instant802) has it ready to sell. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]