• Tourism Northern Territory rolls out free Wi-Fi service in Alice Springs

  Alice Springs visitors and locals will be able to access three hours of free Wi-Fi every day following the rollout of a service by Tourism Northern Territory (NT) in the city’s Todd Mall.

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  Faster Wi-Fi network on the way for UNSW students

  An upgrade of the University of New South Wales’ Wi-Fi network is underway which could offer students speeds of up to 1.3 Gigabits per second.

• Smaller cell systems needed for power hungry 4G networks: CEET

  4G long term evolution (LTE) networks could consume up to 59.3 per cent of wireless cloud energy by 2015, according to research by the Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications (CEET).

• Hotspot 2.0 will enable enterprises to wholesale Wi-Fi access

  The most widely anticipated but least understood "next big thing" in the networked world is Hotspot 2.0 (HS 2.0).

• Apple leverages Wi-Fi location with latest acquisition

  Apple has bought a small software startup that lets smartphones and tablets pinpoint their location indoors using nearby Wi-Fi signals.

• Troubleshoot sluggish or non-working Wi-Fi

  I'm a big fan of working at offsite locations--meaning my local Wi-Fi-equipped coffee shop. In fact, I'll often spend the afternoon hunkered down at Panera Bread, iced tea in one hand and a French Toast bagel in the other. (It's bad form to set up shop without buying something.)

• 5 Tips for Pain-Free Wireless Home Networking

  Hair-pullingly bad experiences with wireless networking have led me to formulate Snyder's First Law of Home Networking: No matter who sells you the router, you'll have at least one excruciating session with tech support before you have an Internet connection.

• How to diagnose a bad Wi-Fi connection

  Network problems are the thorniest to resolve. They've been known to reduce my vocabulary to curses so strong they'd embarrass Quentin Tarantino.

• Find yourself on Google Latitude without GPS or a phone

  Google Latitude is a useful--if slightly creepy--way to track your location on a mobile phone or GPS laptop. But you can get roughly the same sense of fleeting privacy on any old Wi-Fi PC; Google Latitude automatically pegged me within about 100 feet of my ground-floor office on GPS-free laptop.

• Opinion: The Internet of Things, huge data, and Starbucks

  Gibbs ponders how a Starbucks coffee cup could become the greatest business edge

• Google Wi-Fi snooping should serve as security wakeup call

  The continuing saga of Google's wireless snooping and the maelstrom it's generated won't end anytime soon.

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  Google Wi-Fi data snooping: An FAQ

  Google is cleaning up its mess after the company says it mistakenly collecting browsing data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks as part of its Street View project.

• What's next for Wi-Fi?

  The recent formal approval of the IEEE 802.11n wireless standard marks not the end but the start of a wave of Wi-Fi innovation. In the next three to five years, the Wi-Fi experience will be very different from today.

• 802.11n set for final approval

  Sometime on Friday, at the sprawling Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., an IEEE group called the Standards Board is expected to approve the 802.11n wireless LAN standard.

Whitepapers about Wi-Fi

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  BYOD in Healthcare

  In today’s healthcare environment, more and more people are bringing their Wi-Fi devices into the hospital’s infrastructure. This presents a unique challenge to the hospital IT administrator. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions on how HP addresses the security and management of multiple Wi-Fi devices being introduced into the wireless/wired network. Click for more!

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  Case Study: Microsoft Corporate Headquarters Runs Lync Over Aruba Wi-Fi

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  The New Normal: Mobile Device and App Behaviour Over Wi-Fi and Best Practices for Wireless Networks

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  Vendor Landscape: Wireless LAN