If WiMax technology lives up to the hype, faster data speeds over much greater distances than offered by Wi-Fi hot-spots will be the norm. Via [informationweek.com]

Wireless broadband has just taken a big leap forward. Via [news.com.com]

The head of the country's largest phone company ridiculed San Francisco's interest in building a municipal Wi-Fi network that is designed to offer cheap or free Internet service throughout the city. Via [sfgate.com]

We can do this the hard way, or we can do this the easy way. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

European rail operators love Wi-Fi. They're keen on anything that encourages more businesspeople to take the train, and wireless networking is an attractive way to provide paying travellers with ad hoc connections to the internet and company networks. A journey's duration becomes productive work time, whether it's part of a daily commute or a longer...

Forty percent of folk in Britain haven't a clue what WiFi means or where to stick it, a survey suggests. Via [theinquirer.net]

If you don't protect your wireless computer network from hackers, you could discover neighbors or strangers snooping around your personal computer files—like I did. Via [fortune.com]

Tech savvy polar bears can now take advantage of wireless networking after two Intel employees on an expedition deployed what is thought to be the world's most northerly Wi-Fi hotspot. Via [vnunet.com]

The time it takes roam between Wi-Fi wireless networks can be dramatically shortened thanks to software developed by two computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego. Via [vnunet.com]

Sure, we know you can plug it in. But what can you make it do? Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

Intel's mobility guru Sean Maloney said that masts beaming WiMAX signals across the metropolis do not pose any risk to health. Via [theinquirer.net]

Swedish company Neonode is introducing Internet via wireless LAN (WLAN), into their mobiles. The company has been working with Philips Semiconductors to develop a mobile with low power consumption and WLAN support. The launch of the new Neonode mobile is planned for the second half of 2005. Via [geekzone.co.nz]

If press reports are to be believed, then next Monday's gathering of cardinals in the Sistine Chapel will represent the biggest counter-surveillance operation since the Posh/Becks royal wedding. Indeed, so busy will the Vatican be blocking laser microphone assault, checking vases of flowers for nanobugs and setting the Swiss Guard on suspicious men using 3G...

Samsung Electronics was elected to the Board of Directors of the WiMAX Forum, the highest body of the broadband wireless nonprofit organization. Via [news.designtechnica.com]

Sean Maloney, general manager of Intel's mobility group is here in old London Town. He said that Intel realised some years ago that fibre wasn't the answer to delivering broadband He said that while there were lots of technical challenges with Wimax, Intel had gotten over them one by one. Via [theinquirer.net]