Eric Griffith

Broadcom isn’t shy about saying it’s number one in Wi-Fi chips — and it claims it’s also tops in Bluetooth chip sales, at least in handsets (CSR is the Bluetooth leader overall). Broadcom’s newest announcement combines its wireless specialties — starting in 2008, it will offer silicon with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and even FM radio reception, […]

If you’ve got a wireless network and you want to share access with your friends and family — or with the whole world — you need to keep it open to all, or provide the encryption keys you use for entry, right? Not if Whisher gets its wish. The startup, on display this week at […]

A lot of computer connections have gone wireless today, from your network to your printer, but there are two things that can’t go wireless: the power supply, and your monitor’s video connection. Right? Well, wireless extension cords may not be real, but work may be progressing on wireless energy transfer — which involves no cords, […]

This won’t be news to members of the Wi-Fi Alliance, but the rest of the world should take notice: a new test suite from Azimuth Systems of Acton, Massachusetts,  promises to cut the time it takes to test Wi-Fi products by two-thirds. A move that could mean more certified products on shelves next year. “We […]

Despite the hopes of the industry barreling ahead with the release of Draft-N product based on the 1.0 draft of 802.11n, that high-speed Wi-Fi standard is likely not to get another vote until January 2007, not next month as many hoped. That means there won’t be a 2.0 draft for at least six months. Network […]

Some have called the ability to surf the Internet on a wireless network while trapped inside a airplane for hours at a time the holy grail for business travelers. Boeing, the company behind the Connexion service that provides just that on several foreign carriers, is calling it something else. The Wall Street Journal and others […]

What if you built a city-wide Wi-Fi network, and no one came? Or, more specifically, everyone came but no one paid to use it? That’s not too much of an issue in the many municipalities allowing a third-party provider/integrator to install and run a network are providing some form of free service. That’s the plan, […]

The ink is barely dry on the 1.0 version of the 802.11n draft, but that isn’t stopping the industry from selling products based on the early stages of the specification. Netgear said Wednesday it has an entire line of 11n draft products ready to ship into the retail channel in the next week or two — they’re […]

It’s not much of a surprise considering past announcements, but today the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced at its meeting in Bellevue, Washington that the flavor of ultrawideband wireless called multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM), backed by the WiMedia Alliance industry group, will be integrated into Bluetooth.   The technology will run in […]

High-speed wireless networks that far outstrip the paltry speeds of today’s 802.11-based networks are definitely in our future. That’s the good news. However, it might take a little longer to get a final high-speed WLAN specification than some were anticipating even two months ago. Atheros CTO Bill McFarland said in a statement last week that […]