The investment units of Intel and Motorola are putting a total of $900 million into Clearwire, a wireless Internet service provider, in hopes of speeding development of its high-speed wide-range network.
Intel Capital said Wednesday that it would make a $600 million cash investment in Clearwire, which was founded about three years ago by Craig McCaw, a pioneer in the cellular phone industry.
THE AUSTRIAN national airline started a new business class that will includes a power plug and a wireless LAN on board.
Lufthansa was the first to test this by offering wirelessness on its flights to America. Now the Austrians are about to follow.
Pampered fliers will now be able to use the wireless LAN and plug in their laptop adaptors while on board Austrian Airlines. We understand there will be a charge though, of around $27(US).
Wi-Fi hotspots have become ubiquitous at cafes, airports, restaurants, and other public location. In fact, more and more cities are creating hotspots that blanket entire metropolitan areas.
But every time you connect at a hotspot, you're asking for trouble. hotspots are open networks that don't use encryption, which invites hacking and snooping. In addition, when you're on a hotspot you're connected to the same network as your fellow hotspot users, they can potentially weasel their way onto your PC and inflict damage.
An increasing number of companies appear to be willing to pay a premium for enhancing the security of their smartphones and other wireless devices, according to the results of a survey conducted jointly by Bluefire Security Technologies and FierceWireless, a daily news site for the wireless industry.
The rejection of China's Wi-Fi encryption algorithm has sparked allegations of foul play.
The Standardization Administration of China, a group promoting China's wireless encryption standard, accused the U.S.-based engineering group Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of conspiracy and unethical behavior on Monday, according to reports by the Xinhua News Agency, China's official news agency.
Computer security specialist Cory Michal needs only five minutes, using store-bought technology, to access credit card information from a downtown Milwaukee restaurant.
Criminals are setting up temporary wireless access points designed to look like the genuine article in order to capture confidential information, according to security firm RSA.
The company warned that rogue hotspots could provide the latest platform for identity theft, and cited a test system built by Capgemini UK as a proof-of-concept.
Want to get a sense of where wireless technology is headed? Think back to where the Internet stood at a similar point in its development - say, sometime around 1998. Back then the computer had already become a fixture in a majority of American homes, while the Web and e-mail were just beginning to reshape the way people interact, socialize, and shop.
"I could give you a brick for a wireless device, and you'd have no security issues at all," said Benjamin Haidri of Absolute Software at Thursday's GTC security panel. "But to use a device that is a true extension of your office environment," he said, "then you have a host of such issues."
If Eric Schultze had known what was happening, he might not have slept so soundly that night in his Boston Marriott hotel room.
Schultze, chief security architect for Shavlik Technologies in Mankato, Minn., and a former Microsoft executive, had hooked up his computer to the hotel’s Internet connection the night before he was to make a presentation at a conference in October 1999.
