Ember Corporation began shipping EmberZNet 2.0. The second-generation ZigBee protocol stack is designed to support application profiles for home controls and user-defined network applications, according to the company. Via [wirelessweek.com]

Cisco Systems will throw its hat into the municipal Wi-Fi ring on Tuesday when it announces wireless-network product enhancements that extend its technology into outside deployments. Via [news.zdnet.com]

Wi-Fi finders can save those seeking wireless connectivity on the road a lot of time. In mere seconds, you can scan for the presence of an 802.11 network without having to boot up your laptop. The first generation of hotspot locators looked like little fobs that you could clip onto a key ring. When you...

With the sun barely set on its 3G launch, Vodafone is already turning its attention to the next generation of radio technologies, including mobile WiMax, and may even make a play as a wireless broadband provider. Via [networks.silicon.com]

"The two standards are not the same, and they address very different markets," says Craig Mathias, principal at Farpoint Group, a consultancy specializing in wireless networking. "We see WiMax dominating for residential and business [wireless] access to the Internet, in fixed, metroscale nets." Via [toptechnews.com]

Ah, the joy of wireless networking! No more tripping over messy cables or taking turns on the internet. Whether it's a PC in the bedroom or a notebook PC in your garden, wireless networking, or Wi-Fi, means you can use a computer where it suits you without a cable in sight. Via [vnunet.com]

A secretive start-up backed by two powerful Silicon Valley venture capital firms will on Monday outline its plans for bridging the gulf between mobile telephones and fixed-line phone networks. Via [today.reuters.co.uk]

A biotechnology company with a specialty in killing mosquitoes is turning to wireless technology and computers to make a killing for itself. Via [news.com.com]

Formerly part of Yugoslavia and previously better known as a potential ethnic trouble spot, Macedonia is now rapidly becoming a wi-fi hotspot. Via [news.bbc.co.uk]

Everybody is excited about the promise of WiMax, for all kinds of different reasons. WiNetworks, a U.S.-based firm with R&D operations in Israel, has a somewhat unusual and highly targeted WiMax strategy. It wants to use the wide area wireless networking standard (AKA 802.16-2004) to help direct broadcast satellite (DBS) operators offer triple play services...

Security firm WhiteHat has found that out of 751 wireless networks discovered in Sydney's central business district, 75 percent were unencrypted. Via [zdnet.com.au]

Internet search giant Google has offered to bring free wireless Internet, or WiFi, connections to Mountain View, the city of its corporate headquarters. Via [siliconvalley.com]

The number of North American organisations deploying voice over wireless LANs (WLAN) will triple over the next two years, from ten per cent now to 31 per cent in 2007, driven by the growing availability of wireless VoIP handsets and voice-enabling wireless infrastructure, according to a study by market research firm Infonetics Research. Via [digitalmediaasia.com]...

Last week was the latest plugfest sponsored by the WiMax Forum, and several companies are reporting successful interoperability demonstrations with their equipment. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

Should the UK offer free wireless internet access everywhere and to everyone? If one council, such as Islington, can do it, should the rest of the councils - or central government - follow its lead? Via [silicon.com]