Wi-Fi

In an era where the Internet has become almost ubiquitous, an Arizona school district is proving it’s up to speed, having kitted out a school bus with Wi-Fi and plans for more to come.

One completely ingenious product spotted at WiMAX Forum Congress Asia 2010, was a little mobile WiMAX to WiFi device running on an integrated Lithium ion battery which can be slipped …

Logging onto the Internet for free at many New York City parks has become another casualty of the financial crisis. The vendor, WiFi Salon, which won the contract from the …

Qualcomm has licensed Skyhook Wireless's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), a method of combining massive professional wardriving databases with geographical latitude and longitude.

Airlines can’t afford to spend money on much of anything beyond fuel these days, but that’s not stopping them from pouring cash into the technology that will let passengers surf …

OYSTER BAY, New York-Dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi mobile phones will enjoy support among business users and could grow to as much as 7 percent of the worldwide handset market by 2009, according …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-Wavelink Corp. has partnered with Europe’s Wificom Technologies and Aptilo Networks to enable communications service providers to offer wireless Internet access in public areas including airports, coffee shops, hotels …

NEW YORK-GuestWiFi, which provides wireless local area network access at small and mid-sized hotels, has teamed with Pronto Networks, a Pleasanton, Calif., provider of carrier-class operations support systems for hot …

NEW YORK-LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy and Newark airports, all operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, will have public and private wireless local area network access …

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Boingo Wireless said it has introduced what it described as the first full-featured WiFi application for Pocket PC 2002. It can be downloaded from Boingo’s Web site, which …

SAN FRANCISCO-Starbucks Coffee Co., Hewlett-Packard Co. and T-Mobile International have combined to launch a hot spot service in Starbucks coffee houses, allowing customers to connect to Internet applications using 802.11b …

PALO ALTO, Calif.—WiFi Metro Inc. and Gatespeed Broadband Inc. launched a wireless “HotZone” in downtown San Jose, Calif., spanning more than six city blocks. The HotZone allows users to establish …

One of the big stumbling blocks remaining for widespread Bluetooth adoption continues to be interference issues in the 2.4 GHz unlicensed spectrum band, which the technology uses. In addition to …