Author: Wayne Slavin

iSuppli predicts revenue from WiMax base-station and customer-premise equipment (CPE) sales worldwide will achieve annual growth rates of only 14-25% from 2004 through 2007. The market will not enter its rapid-growth phase until 2008 and 2009, when sales will rise by 47% and 66%, respectively. By 2009, the market will swell to US$2.6 billion in...

Mark Cuban, the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner, wouldn't think of surfing the Internet from his seat during Mavericks home games. "Hell no," he declares. Via [news.zdnet.com]

Residents, reporters and visitors to Tempe, Ariz., this week for the third presidential debate will have Wi-Fi access in the downtown area, thanks to a new Wi-Fi hot zone deployed by Sweet Spot Solutions and Pronto Networks. Via [wirelessweek.com]

In a move to convert the residential phone into an Internet appliance capable of handling voice and data traffic, Broadcom Corp. has condensed all of its Wi-Fi and voice-over-Internet Protocol hardware and software technologies into two chips. A phone equipped with the chip set could replace a consumer's cordless phone, but would also browse the...

Some analysts fear that wireless standard ZigBee is under threat from vendors rushing out pre-standard products, but Bob Metcalfe is certain that it will play a massive role in IT. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

Atheros Communications Inc. today announced the first complete single-chip IEEE 802.11a/b/g WLAN solution, the Atheros AR5006X. Via [reed-electronics.com]

WiMAX enthusiasts sometimes claim that it will "kill" Wi-Fi. Nothing could be further from the truth, according to current studies from ABI Research. Via [abiresearch.com]

Symbol Technologies Inc. is readying multiband Wi-Fi support for its WLAN switching system that will give enterprises more bandwidth to support voice, video and data all managed from a central location. Via [eweek.com]

Think of it as Wi-Fi on steroids. On its way to U.S. living rooms and maybe even automobiles is a new type of high-speed wireless connection that promises downloaded data rates of up to 1 gigabit per second -- roughly 18.5 times the speed of Wi-Fi -- to personal computers and other devices. Via [reuters.com]...

InterDigital Communications Corp. has developed an antenna that "locks in" on a signal, refusing to waste power in radiating information in all directions. Via [extremetech.com]

Tritton Technologies this week launched WiFi NAS servers. Last month, Iomega Corp. began shipping its 100d wireless NAS servers and Cisco Systems Inc.'s Linksys enhanced its wireless NAS family. In August, Palmchip Semiconductor was born with the intention of creating chips for wireless NAS and other storage devices. Via [byteandswitch.com]

T-Mobile USA Inc. launched the Sony Ericsson GC79 PC card providing access to the carrier's GPRS and 802.11b-based Wi-Fi data networks from a single device. The tri-band device operates on 900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS networks and sells for $200. Via [rcrnews.com]

German telecommunications gear maker Siemens is backing a new kind of broadband wireless technology that will compete with Wi-Fi and 3G cellular services. Via [news.com.com]

While the number of European wireless local area network (Lan) hotspots doubled in the first half of 2004, few businesses are interested in using the service, according to research by IDC. Via [vnunet.com]

Philadelphia mayor John F. Street is either completely out of his mind or a visionary who is completely out of his mind. Via [readthehook.com]