Peter Judge

The IEEE will remove a major obstacle to the widespread use of Wi-Fi for serious business applications with the creation of a testing group...

In a broad announcement Monday, Extreme Networks Inc. has combined wired and wireless features on more of its switches. Launching an RF management tool,...

Voice over Wi-Fi, which enterprise wireless vendors have seized on as this year's hot sales pitch could be dead in the water, according to...

Wi-Fi users in Europe are paying much higher rates than those in the U.S., according to a price-comparison Web site, W-Fi Rates. And we pay more for our hardware too, with IBM Corp. Centrino laptops costing at least 50 per cent more than in the U.S. Surprisingly, U.K. users can find themselves worse off than people in the rest of Europe.

Business 3G services in the U.K. came another tiny step closer with the announcement that Vodafone Group PLC is to start trials of a data-only service in some areas, with a commercial launch in the spring.

Any trade show is an opportunity for security specialists to demonstrate their skills, and last month's Wi-Fi Planet event was no exception. AirDefense Inc. monitored all Wi-fi traffic at the show and found hackers skills are advancing, while many users are still ignorant of known security issues.

Point-to-point wireless links will get a big boost in December, when The Radiocommunications Agency (RA) is expected to approve the use of the 5GHz spectrum. The incumbent spectrum user of the contentious Band C, the U.K. Ministry of Defence, has been placated by a

BT Group PLC is to offer mobile phones that will prevent users from making GSM calls in the office, by diverting them automatically across Bluetooth to the fixed network.