Mobile & Wireless

Symbol is banking on consumers being fed up with proliferating Wi-Fi standards. The company's new access point aims to support all major Wi-Fi protocols on the market today, including 802.11h.

The chief executive officers of Intel Corp. and LG Electronics Inc. agreed on Monday to work together towards creating a single international standard for wireless broadband Internet access.

Wireless trend watchers are getting ready for WiMax and its promised high-speed wireless broadband access. But another contender - HSDPA, the latest iteration of 3G technology - could bring somewhat slower but still impressive throughput to a much more mobile audience.

Wireless Ethernet could become a standard feature of smart phones in the next two years if Bluetooth specialist CSR PLC gets its way. The company has packed a triple-mode a/b/g Wi-Fi adapter into a single ultra-small chip, complete with multiple antennae ready for 802.11n MIMO.

Vodafone Group PLC formally rolled out its 3G mobile communication products and services in 12 European countries and Japan on Wednesday.

With demand for WLANs seeing tremendous growth in both enterprise and public-space developments, the issue coming to the forefront is cost, and, more specifcally, how to evaluate and minimize the total cost of ownership of a given wireless-LAN installation. As it turns out, this is not an easy task.

Due to growing application requirements and user demands there is likely never to be enough performance in any network, and the provision of higher throughput is especially challenging in wireless LANs. This white paper will introduce you to one technique that may help. It's called MIMO

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is trying to encourage a take-up of the WPAN technology in the U.S. equal to its success in Europe. To that end, the group has outlined a strategy for the next three years of Bluetooth.

Wireless LANs have achieved meaningful penetration in enterprise, public-access, and residential settings; in applications ranging from data collection to now-ubiquitous horizontal, general-office LAN services. We are now poised at the beginning of the next great evolutionary step in the history of wireless LANs: the introduction of WLAN systems and products based on wireless mesh architectures. This white paper introduces the key concepts of Wi-Fi meshes and explores their applications and economic impacts.

Analyst Rajeev Chand went to the CTIA show last week with an eye on Wi-Fi developments. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on how the technology and the market will shape up in the next few years.

JupiterResearch has issued a report estimating that home wireless bandwidth needs will jump to 57 Mbps by 2009. The research firm believes that for most consumers, home wireless networks will cease to be primarily for sharing Internet connections and will instead be the main carrier for audio and video within the home.