Just when consumers have learned to use--and pronounce--the wireless networks known as 802.11, along comes a few new versions that threaten to confuse the market. Millions of people and businesses ...

Despite comments from Apple executives that the company would have no part in bringing the 802.11a WiFi specification over to the Macintosh, the first Intel-based Macs announced this week have the ...

I hear it all the time: “802.11g gives you the same throughput as 802.11a, so there is no reason to upgrade to 11a hardware.” But that statement doesn’t take into account a fundamental advantage of ...

LAS VEGAS--Reflecting the growing demand for Net connections anywhere, some of the leading networking companies plan to unveil new technology for people to communicate wirelessly in their homes and ...

Wireless LANs running at 54 megabits per second (mbps) could be available in the UK within six months, although politics could delay it till the end of 2002. The collapse of the rival HiperLAN ...

Decisions at the World Radiocommunication Conference, to be held June 9 – July 4 in Geneva, Switzerland, could yield a common set of global rules for running 54M-bit/sec 802.11a wireless LANs in the 5 ...

The 802.11g standard is still under development, with a final standard likely available by the end of 2002. With pre-standard chipsets just becoming available now, product vendors will probably ...

Wireless networks are taking the business and consumer worlds by storm, but incompatibilities between emerging standards still cause uneasiness in some users and network administrators looking to make ...

In the morass of wireless goings-on, how can you make sure your investments are sound and future-proof? With new suppliers, architectures and standards continually emerging, it’s no wonder a recent ...

The most common types of wireless LANs today support the 802.11b standard. Although faster 802.11a equipment has been available for some time, vendors of enterprise-class WLAN equipment — with more ...

To maintain its track record of integrating multiple high-end communications functions in CMOS, Broadcom Corp. last week introduced a chipset that combines the 802.11a and 802.11b wireless protocols.

Seeking to reverse several years of poor earnings, Micro Linear Corp. said last week it will cease developing products that meet the IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN protocol as part of a restructuring that ...