- 5 Easy Steps to Setting Up a Wireless Network
Does your business need a wireless network? If you think the answer is yes, read on to discover how easy it is to set one up By Richard Stone, Entrepreneur.com Wireless networks are becoming faster, more affordable and easier to adopt than ever. Growing small businesses that have adopted a ......
- Securing the Wireless Network of Your Small Business
Unsecured wireless LANs are easy targets for hackers, both over the Internet and via "wardriving," wherein laptop-equipped hackers drive around looking for unsecured wireless connections to exploit.
- Embedded device server swings both wired and wireless ways
If you don't know whether you need Ethernet or 802.11b-only connectivity, the WiPort embedded device server from Lantronix may be for you. The module lets you add high-end connectivity to a variety of applications, such as security systems, medical instruments, industrial automation, retail installations, and building automation for remote access, ......
- Metalink, Haier Partner on Home Entertainment Front
Chinese home appliance manufacturer Haier Corp. and Israeli wireless player Metalink Ltd. today announced their collaboration to develop advanced consumer electronics products allowing wireless multimedia networking throughout the home, based on the emerging IEEE 802.11n standard. At the International Consumer Electronics Show exhibition in Las Vegas this January, Haier presented ......
- Demo Kit Simplifies ZigBee Applications
With the ZigBee protocol officially approved in the first quarter of 2005, Microchip's PICDEM™ Z ZigBee demonstration kit provides a timely means of starting a new design. The kit includes two motherboards, two 2.4 GHz RF cards, and a CD containing the ZigBee protocol software and a PCB layout database....
- TI Shells Out $200M for RF SoC Provider
To offer customers complete short-range wireless solutions for consumer, home and building automation applications Texas Instruments (TI) Inc. said today it will acquire short-range, low-power wireless radio frequency (RF) transceiver device supplier Chipcon AS for $200 million. The combination of the companies will bring together Chipcon’s design experience in RF ......
- Avoiding Bluetooth's missteps
Supporters of the ZigBee wireless networking standard claim to have learned a few lessons from the missteps of another wireless rival, Bluetooth. "We looked critically at Bluetooth and learned a lot from that," says Bob Heile, chairman of the ZigBee Alliance, which represents 120 semiconductor, software and systems companies backing ......