Have you ever looked out the window on a beautiful, sunny day and thought you'd rather be working under that nice shady tree, instead of sitting there in a stuffy office? As a network specialist with a small, local college and a member of the working group to bring 802.11b Ethernet wireless to our campus,...

The Wireless Strategies to stimulate the adoption of mobile data among enterprises that were hatched in the boardrooms of major telecommunications carriers in 2001 are likely to take hold in 2002. Via [infoworld.com]

Boingo Wireless has gotten a lot of news lately about their new business venture. They promise one source for access to a number of IEEE 802.11b wireless systems. To fulfill this, they offer a free client from their website which supposedly sports a NetStumbler-like mechanism to find access points, a database of known access points...

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic. Via [kismetwireless.net]

How did Frank Keeney, a California-based security consultant and war driving convert, spend his recent vacation? With his wife and kids along for the ride, Keeney used a laptop, rigged up in the back of his SUV, to map access points to home and corporate wireless LANs all the way from Pasadena to San Francisco....

Sharing high-speed Internet access via wireless networks is growing in popularity, but some liken it to stealing cable TV. Via [g4techtv.com]

Hewlett-Packard Company announced several new mobile and wireless products today, including the new HP Pavilion zt1000 notebook PC series with optional embedded 802.11b or Bluetooth wireless capabilities. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

The 802.15 camp (Bluetooth) has just drafted a 2.4-GHz specification that offers 55-Mbit/second throughput for Multimedia use in the home (WPAN). They promise all the speed of IEEE 802.11a, quality of service, security and the (heh-hem) low price of Blue Tooth. They claim a range of 100 feet. Its intended use is to replace the...

The security of wireless networks is getting a make-over in an attempt to secure them from drive-by hacking attacks. Via [news.bbc.co.uk]

Bluetooth has suffered one of the most drawn-out launches of any technology in history, but with devices now appearing on the shelves, its time just might have come. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

Shipments of handheld computers fell throughout 2001. 2002 looks like another lean year: only wireless technologies will boost sales, say analysts. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

Royal Caribbean has built all kinds of computing gear into the ship. The various technologies provide passengers and crew with a wireless satellite connection to the Internet. There's also an on-board network, and the cruise line is working on the introduction of handheld computers on the high seas. Via [cyberwalker.net]

Truckstops are being outfitted by SiriCOMM to provide 802.11b access to wirelessly send and recieve e-mail, get updated road conditions, check news and weather, maintain electronic logbooks and electronically exchange freight bills with the company, shippers and consignees -- all from the comfort from their trucks in the lot.

Over the past year, much has been written about the vulnerabilities of 802.11b wireless LANs. Researchers from AT&T Labs, UC Berkeley, Intel, and University of Maryland have identified holes in Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) that let attackers learn the keys used to encrypt 802.11b traffic. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

Hackers increasingly are cracking into wireless networks based on a standard called "Wi-Fi" (wireless fidelty), also known as 802.11b. Wi-Fi networks have taken off with both consumers and businesses because they're relatively inexpensive to install and transmit information at a speedy 11 megabits per second. Via [gannettonline.com]