For corporate deployment of WiFi networks, security has been the biggest hurdle to overcome and one of WiFi's biggest cons. Today, all that has changed. Via [cioupdate.com]

Train operator GNER has seen an impressive passenger response to the introduction of wireless networking capabilities on its trains. Via [vnunet.com]

Most businesses have little interest in buying 3G mobile phones at present, according to senior executives at Nokia. Via [networks.silicon.com]

Cisco Systems Inc. CTO Charles Giancarlo took a few swings at WiMax, the wireless broadband networking technology also known as IEEE 802.16, yesterday during his brief keynote address at the Next Generation Networks conference in Boston. Via [lightreading.com]

Intel’s next generation of desktop-use chipsets, to be introduced in the second half of 2005, will support wireless technologies such as 802.11a/b/g, said Sunil Kumar, director of chipset and software marketing at Intel, yesterday in Taipei. Via [digitimes.com]

Wired and wireless ISPs are preparing for a healthy debate over the future of VoIP, WiMAX and other provider issues as ISPCON rolls into Silicon Valley this week. Via [internetnews.com]

NEC's LT265 wireless-ready digital DLP projector has a smooth, egg-shell-white veneer that immediately makes it an attention-getter. I found much to like about this unit, but also a few drawbacks--including an overly complex wireless setup. Via [pcworld.com]

Proxim has unveiled the Tsunami MP.11 Model 5054-R, the next product in a generation of point-to-multipoint outdoor fixed wireless devices that will serve as a part of a migration platform to WiMax solutions expected in the second half of 2005. Via [computerweekly.com]

Fuelled by a rapid rise in home networking, ZigBee IEEE 802.15.4 high-speed wireless revenues will rocket by 3,400 per cent in the next four years, research has claimed. Via [computing.co.uk]

Car rental giant Hertz announced Tuesday it has teamed up with hot-spot operator Wayport to offer wireless, high-speed Internet access at more than 50 U.S. airports. Via [news.com.com]

A few telcos appear to be realizing that Wi-Fi isn't a business by itself, but does have great potential to reduce churn for other services. Via [thefeature.com]

Officials at Computer Associates announced the availability of an application aimed at simplifying and strengthening Wi-Fi networks. Wireless Site Management 4.0 (WSM), first introduced in May, is designed to augment the company's Unicenter Network and Systems Management Network Performance Option -- a reporting and network health application -- and eTrust security management platform. Via [internetnews.com]...

BT is trying to drum up business for its Wi-Fi broadband service by offering an entry-level package for just £1 a month. Snag is, you have to be an existing BT Business Broadband, BT Broadband or BT Yahoo! Broadband customer to take up the offer. Via [theregister.co.uk]

There is no question that a number of the new mobile solutions that are being developed could help many business processes function more efficiently. The results of a recent survey, carried out at an executive briefing held by IT consulting services and solutions provider C and C Technology, sheds some light onto the perceived advantages...

Unlike AirMagnet's Enterprise 5.0 and other wireless IDSes (intrusion detection systems), which use location tracking simply to display possible locations of wireless devices on a floor-plan diagram, Newbury Networks' WiFi Watchdog 4.0 uses location tracking as a core component of MAC (media access control) authentication. Via [eweek.com]