Stories about: Wireless Group

The proposed IEEE wireless LAN mesh specification is already getting some traction, though still over 18 months from final ratification, thanks to early experimentation by the One Laptop Per Child Foundation and a recently launched open source project.

Netgear this week will unveil a two-radio 5GHz 802.11n router with a new internal antenna system and a price tag under US$130, less than half the price of some rival products for the SOHO and residential wireless LAN market.

The big-name backers of Silicon Valley's proposed wireless network are looking for a new company to build and operate the system after potential financiers rebuffed the original vendor.

New or emerging wireless and mobile companies continue to be a fountain of innovation, as our selection this year shows.

Growth in its wireless and broadband divisions pushed first-quarter revenue higher at Verizon Communications, although earnings declined from a year ago because of asset divestitures and merger costs.

A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology.

The 3G Partnership Project - a consortium of 200 wireless vendors and operators - has begun a study to determine the feasibility of defining a standard that supports wireless downlink speeds as high as 100Mbps.

The launch of Intel's first-generation WiMax chip has been hailed as a breakthrough for WiMax. But what will they support and how quickly will we start to see products that use them?

Intersil Corp. is bailing out of the wireless LAN chip business, even though the chipmaker still holds the dominant share of that market.

Sprint Corp. announced mixed results for the second quarter of 2002 Thursday, with revenue from its local and long distance phone division dipping below both analyst expectations and last year's results, while its PCS wireless group topped both last year's numbers and analyst forecasts.

A standard for low-voltage, low-power chips for wireless devices will push the concept of ubiquitous computing from theory to reality in homes, offices and even cars, an executive from Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV said here Monday.