Wi-Fi

RCR Wireless News is currently livecasting the Wi-Fi Alliance’s Hotspot 2.0 specification and upcoming Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint certification program from Dallas. The event is being presented by the technical staff …

HP has given full exclusivity of its TouchPad tablet 4G to AT&T just in time for the back to school shopping spree, the company has revealed. The tab, which runs …

Recently, RCR caught up with Qualcomm in Taipei to take a look at the firm’s latest developer offerings and tasty treats to lure mobile engineers into the Qualcomm ecosystem.

About one year following Hewlett-Packard Co. buying out the dwindling Palm, HP is launching the inaugural tablet to use Palm’s webOS operating system scheduled for tomorrow. The TouchPad is similar …

Austin’s main artery for long-distance travel, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA), finally hammered out a revised deal with operator Boingo Wireless to allow for free wireless Internet usage. It was feared …

Dallas-based AT&T Inc. (T) announced that the mobile carrier is launching a Wi-Fi “hotzone” in Austin on the popular downtown nightlife area of Sixth Street. The offering is the company’s …

Never mind flooding, tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes and the extinction of the polar bears, all that pales in comparison to the latest revelation that fluctuations in temperature caused by climate change could affect how far Wi-Fi signals can travel.

Eye-Fi Inc., makers of memory cards with built-in Wi-Fi capabilities, is introducing “direct mode,” which allows the transfer of photos from a camera with an Eye-Fi card for a direct …

PR Newswire | March 2, 2011 | Press Release PORT ANTONIO, Jamaica, March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Dekal Wireless and Altai Technologies are proud to announce the completion of the world’s first SuperWiFi …

Showing a peer-to-peer gaming demo between three people on different devices – a Nokia Maemo, a Google Nexus One and a laptop – Qualcomm shows off how it believes modern chip technology can enhance mobile user experience.

Korea’s KT telecom has taken the above words to heart in its recent establishment of 27,000 new Wi-Fi zones throughout the country, clearly marking its territory before other telcos like main rival SK telecom can even say “Wi-Fi.”

Relatively rare just a few years ago, smartphones – or superphones as some are now calling them – have become as ubiquitous as Usher on the radio. But just how well do you know your sophisticated handset gadgetry? RCR Unplugged recently spoke with ARM wireless segment manager James Bruce to identify the five most important components of today’s smartphones (in no particular order).

It used to be that only smokers had a really hard time fighting their obsessive, unhealthy addiction on long haul flights, but these days, us Internet junkies suffer from it too.

Heavyweight in the end-to-end wireless coverage market, Powerwave Technologies, used Communicasia 2010 in Singapore last week to announce and show off its new DAS and WiFi Performance Boost offering, which the firm says supports 2G, 3G, 4G and WiFi a/b/g/n protocols.

Starbucks to offer unlimited free Wi-Fi at 6700 US locations starting July 1st announced CEO Howard Schultz today in New York at Wired’s Business Conference “Disruptive by Design.”

At a recent Google event the search engine giant’s co-founder raised an important issue that is still very much an unsolved problem for the mobile industry.