Category: Products

Last month, the Hagiwara Sys-Com MemoryStick Wireless LAN card finally became available -- in Japan. The Wi-Fi enabled MemoryStick is now shipping in the United States. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

Hardware and software players are positioning themselves to combine two of the Internet's success stories -- Wi-Fi and VoIP -- onto one hardware platform. Via [internetnews.com]

A new Web site has hit the Internet designed to help consumers find a prepaid Wi-Fi service plan. WiFiMinutes.com gives consumers the ability to compare and contrast several plan options. Via [wirelessweek.com]

VoIP over Wi-Fi networks is still fraught with problems that will take time - probably years - to solve, according to execs from vendors selling gear to support the technology, who spoke at a panel Tuesday at Spring VON 2004. Via [nwfusion.com]

Broadband phone service provider Vonage will make available portable Wi-Fi phones later this year to help defend itself against AT&T's expansion into its market, a Vonage executive said Monday. Via [news.com.com]

AMD has begun to address Intel's almost total domination of the Wi-Fi market by launching a hotspot co-marketing scheme designed to promote its Alchemy WLAN chips. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Lucent Technologies Inc. is working to develop a product that would provide users with wireless Internet access on trains, buses and automobiles. Via [computerworld.com]

Intel and network gear maker Alcatel announced on Thursday an alliance to deliver WiMax equipment by the second half of 2005. Via [news.com.com]

It didn't seem that long ago that those running DIY home renovation projects would take the re-plastering as an opportunity to run speaker cable and then category 5 networking cable from room to room. Those days could be long gone, and not just because of the sprawl across suburbia of house design TV programmes promoting...

Texas Instruments today unveiled its third generation 802.11 solution specifically designed for mobile devices such as cell phones, smartphones and PDAs. Via [news.designtechnica.com]

Taiwanese hardware maker Asustek Computer will launch a hard-drive case that can be accessed over high-speed 802.11g wireless networks, the company announced at CeBIT. Via [computerweekly.com]

Agere is the latest firm to introduce a semi-proprietary, turbocharged Wi-Fi chipset anticipate the 108Mbps standard expected in two years' time. The company is trying to make up for its recent dormant state in the WLAN business, and is claiming peak rates of 150Mbps. Via [theregister.co.uk]

A company whose emergency-response devices communicate through each other rather than through a centralized hub alone is expanding the technology to work on other kinds of wireless equipment. Via [usatoday.com]

Fast and easy is what you want when you're setting up a wireless home networking system. And Microsoft's Wireless-G networking products come close to delivering just that. Via [usatoday.com]

As the market for wireless networking products continues to grow, vendors are constantly one-upping each other with performance claims for their products. However, it's a moot point to millions of U.S. and European home users stuck with Internet connection speeds far below the bandwidth promised by new 802.11g products. Via [infoworld.com]