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FierceWiFi December 7, 2005
- Wi-Fi Alliance to certify battery-saving tools
- Analysis: Patent litigation at crossroads
- Trend: Realistic assessment of WiMax
- QUALCOMM, finally, joins Wi-Fi Alliance
- Linux driver available for Broadcom WLAN chipset
- SPOTLIGHT: The competition cometh
- ALSO NOTED: First also noted headline; second headline; and much more...
Wi-Fi Alliance to certify battery-saving tools
Not a moment too soon, the Wi-Fi Alliance will address one of the main problems with WLAN phones by certifying features which extend battery life. In addition to the organization's interoperability certification, the industry group will add a label it calls Wireless Multimedia (WMM) Power Save, which identified products that had reduced the power required to use multimedia applications over WLANs. This is a good and necessary move. Using a WLAN for VoIP, streaming video and other …
Analysis: Patent litigation at crossroads
Fights over patents are becoming more pervasive and more consequential. Three examples: The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of MercExchange, a small Virginia company, against auction giant eBay (the issue before the Court is whether lower courts must issue an injunction if they suspect a patent infringement, or whether they have some leeway); BlackBerry may be forced into ceasing operation in North America owing to an ongoing battle with NTP; and a Senate committee …
Trend: Realistic assessment of WiMax
We have long argued on these pages that, for some reason, it has become de rigeur among commentators to attach the adjective 'over-hyped' to WiMax. It was as if dismissing the technology's promise would give any no-name analyst an instant air of sophistication and urbanity. The proper response to these self-satisfied analysts is and has always been: balderdash. We are glad to see support for this view from the sober Philip Solis of ABI Research. The latest WiMax study by the research …
QUALCOMM, finally, joins Wi-Fi Alliance
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. QUALCOMM, bringing up the rear, has finally joined the Wi-Fi Alliance. The company's executives used to spend a lot of energy bashing WiFi. More recently they have switched targets and now concentrate their fire on WiMax. What has not changed is the self-serving quality, and a certain touch of the absurd, for much of what emanates from QUALCOMM regarding these two technologies. Now these executives say they wanted to make sure the company's 3G cellular …
Linux driver available for Broadcom WLAN chipset
Who says reverse engineering takes place only in China? More than two years ago a group was formed to reverse engineer the Broadcom WLAN chipsets to provide Linux drivers. This chipset is used by many OEMs, among them Apple's AirPort Extreme in PowerBooks and iBooks, Linksys' WAP and WRT series of consumer grade wireless routers, different laptops from Acer, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, and others, and many more external and internal devices, including CardBus cards.
That …
SPOTLIGHT: The competition cometh
Cingular Wireless has just launched a wireless network allowing customers to use 3G to access Cingular BroadbandConnect, which is available to nearly 35 million people in 52 communities around the US. Cingular's 3G network is the first service (or, rather, the first widely available service) in the world to use HSDPA technology. HSDPA is the high-speed evolution of GSM/EDGE. GSM is the world's most popular wireless technology, which is used by more than 1 billion people in "210" …
ALSO NOTED: First also noted headline; second headline; and much more...
> For the first time, more people bought laptops than desktops (52 percent to 48 percent) during the week ending November 26, according to Current Analysis. Report
> UWB chips tops gigabit speeds. Article
> Proponents of UWB and WiMax are interested in getting their wireless products incorporated into UMA technology. …