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FierceWiFi October 3, 2006
- Maynor prevented from speaking at ToorCon
- WiFi reshapes consumer electronics sector
- T-Mobile expanding UK WiFi offerings
- Apple to offer cellular phones
- Intel shows wireless UWB link MAC silicon
- SPOTLIGHT: A new karaoke machine
- ALSO NOTED: HSDPA launches in Japan; New Intel platform to integrate 802.11n; and much more...
Maynor prevented from speaking at ToorCon
We reported last week on the swirling controversy over security vulnerability in native Mac WiFi drivers. A couple of years back, Mike Lynn used the Black Hat event to expose security vulnerabilities in Cisco networks, and the community was holding its breath this time around as to whether or not SecureWorks' David Maynor, who made the initial vulnerability charges against Apple, would detail the basis for his charges at this year's ToorCon. Well, he did not: Groge Ou reports that a …
WiFi reshapes consumer electronics sector
WiFi makes a lot of noise when it comes to metro-WiFi and hotspots but there is another area, consumer electronics, that is being reshaped by the technology as well. ABI Research said in a report released last week that the consumer electronics sector is in the middle of a "major shift"--and key to that shift is the fact that WiFi networking is becoming an enabler for the delivery and redistribution of entertainment content in the home. ABI predicts that the total number of WiFi-enabled …
T-Mobile expanding UK WiFi offerings
If you cannot beat 'em, join 'em. Some carriers see WiFi as a threat to their traditional telephony offerings. Others, accepting the inevitable, see WiFi as an opportunity to make money (whether they will make the same amount of money on monthly flat-fee packages as they did on per-minute plans remains to be seen). T-Mobile belongs in this second group. The company is unveiling a slew of WiFi offerings in the UK, aimed at both business people and consumers. Among these …
Apple to offer cellular phones
Years before it came out with the iPod, Apple registered a domain with the name "iphone.org". It was 1999, but since then, a click on the domain's name would redirect you to Apple's home page. It is thus of little wonder that speculations about Apple's move into the cellular phone business have been around for six or seven years. Nick DePlume, a keen-eyed Apple observer, says that the day has finally arrived. Specifically, he writes that Apple has reached an as-yet secret agreement with …
Intel shows wireless UWB link MAC silicon
When you cannot point to big victories, then small ones will have to do, at least for now. This is the case with UWB technology: In February 2004 the FCC approved its use, with some limitations, in commercial applications, but in the nearly three years since then, UWB has been more conspicuous for what it has failed to deliver relative to its early promise--rather than for what it has delivered. Yes, at every consumer electronics show we are invited to impressive demonstrations …
SPOTLIGHT: A new karaoke machine
A new karaoke machine
IBM, together with Japanese company Xing, a subsidiary of Brother Industries, has developed that Kyoku-NAVI S and Kyoku-NAVI II karaoke controllers. The devices will be available in Japan in November. This is the point: Instead of having to look up a code number in a printed catalog and then type it into a machine, customers can now use the devices' touch screens to search or browse a database listing tens of thousands of songs by singer, song …
ALSO NOTED: HSDPA launches in Japan; New Intel platform to integrate 802.11n; and much more...
> TheNEC Corporation supplied HSDPA infrastructure systems to NTT DoCoMo, which had already successfully launched a HSDPA service in Japan on August 31. Report
> Intel last week disclosed details about its next-generation mobile processor platform, including support for 802.11n. The platform will be introduced in the first half of next year and will improve on Intel's Core 2 Duo processor by offering new power saving …