Category: Products

Dust Networks announced today the release of SmartMesh, a wireless mesh networking platform for enterprise-level monitoring and control solutions. Via [news.zdnet.com]

Concord Camera Corp. will demonstrate its clever new wireless image transfer technology for digital cameras called WIT at Photokina next week in Cologne, Germany. Via [news.designtechnica.com]

3Com Corp. Monday unveiled several new wireless networking products for small business customers who need certain enterprise-level features but can't afford enterprise-level prices. Via [eweek.com]

AirWave Wireless and AirMagnet are combining their respective Wi-Fi products and offering them up to joint customers, the companies announced today. The cooperative solution comes as market watchers and industry experts have called for a shaking out in the Wi-Fi vendor industry. Via [wirelessiq.info]

WLAN switching and wireless voice over IP (VoIP) will soon begin to see a surge in the WLAN market, despite the schedule for the IEEE standard having been delayed, said sources in the Taiwan WLAN industry. Via [digitimes.com]

If you own a PDA with an Secure Digital (SD) slot and you're looking to add Wi-Fi to it, you're probably aware of a few SD-based Wi-Fi adapters now available. Dedicating your SD slot for this purpose, however, relegates you to the mere 64MB of RAM internal to most PDAs. Most people that use a...

Airespace, a Silicon Valley telecom services start-up, won a partnership with International Business Machines Corp. that will help Airespace grab a piece of the growing market for WiFi services, the two companies told Reuters on Wednesday. Via [reuters.com]

Broadcom and Intel may be pushing Wi-Fi to connect the digital home and Freescale may be pushing ultra wideband -- but another company is planning to capture the market by relying on old infrastructure – existing power lines. Via [reed-electronics.com]

Iomega is soon expected to ship its first network-attached storage (NAS) device based on wireless networking technology. Via [macworld.co.uk]

New research from In-Stat/MDR illustrates that market demand for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) equipment and services in the China marketplace is heating up. The high-tech research firm expects WLAN equipment revenues in China to increase at a near 33% CAGR from about $54 million in 2004 to almost $160 million by 2008.

The Motorola CN620 dual-mode phone is a "good start" for users wanting to roam between cellular and 802.11 networks, but vendors should find some way of making these devices work at public Wi-Fi hotspots, a Canadian research analyst says. Via [itbusiness.ca]

Sony will next week ship its most impressive Clié PDA yet. The PEG-VZ90 multimedia handheld features not only a slick sliding control panel, but Wi-Fi wireless connectivity and a stunning 3.8in 480 x 320 OLED screen. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Doctors and nurses at Silicon Valley's El Camino Hospital use Wi-Fi not just to send e-mail, but also to talk to each other. Cutting-edge Wi-Fi phones have replaced pagers and intercoms in many parts of the high-tech hospital. The portable phones, which resemble walkie-talkies, run on new technology that may soon become an alternative to...

Have you ever been with a group of notebook-equipped people (say, co-workers perhaps) and found yourselves fighting over who was going to get the only available LAN port? As common as wireless networks are today, they're still far from ubiquitous, and it's entirely likely that say, in a conference room or hotel suite, a group...

The first generation of wireless networking equipment was expensive, tricky to configure, slow, and not that reliable. But performance has improved and it is possible now to pick up basic equipment very cheaply. Via [news.independent.co.uk]