The Bay Area is peppered with Wi-Fi hot spots: SBC Park, Union Square, countless hotels and cafes. Some even cover several blocks.
But now a Mountain View startup plans to connect an entire city with the wireless Internet equipment, allowing anyone in the city limits of Santa Clara to surf the Net at lightning fast speeds for $20 to $30 per month.
Cisco Systems Inc. announced the availability of a protocol that's designed to defeat brute-force dictionary attacks that capture users' passwords in its wireless LAN products. The company urged end users and systems administrators to download the related patch from its Web site.
Wireless networks aren't just popular with computer users on the go. Hackers are finding them an easy target to snoop on consumers' laptop PCs and, eventually, their employers' networks.
Digital intruders are piercing defenseless air space at corporations, public Wi-Fi hot spots and homes to gain illegal entry to computers. About 90% of mobile devices lack protection, says market researcher Gartner.
As enterprise wireless LANs mature, Aruba Wireless Networks Inc. and Gateway Inc. are preparing products that address increasing user interest in VOIP, as well as network security and management.
Aruba Wireless this week unveiled a software application to protect VoIP calls on wireless LANs.
Secure Voice runs on Aruba's WLAN switches. The application relies on key features of the switch operating system to identify and authenticate voice traffic. The software also checks to make sure enough bandwidth is available to meet quality standards. If not, the user hears a busy signal.
It didn't seem that long ago that those running DIY home renovation projects would take the re-plastering as an opportunity to run speaker cable and then category 5 networking cable from room to room. Those days could be long gone, and not just because of the sprawl across suburbia of house design TV programmes promoting 'design' over function. Wireless data networks in the home are enjoying significant growth, and now it's really beginning to move from just email and web browsing to encompass audio and video.
ATLANTA--If you've ever tried to find a movie theater schedule or search the Yellow Pages on a Web-enabled cell phone or connected handheld, you know how difficult it can be. Handmark's new Express service is designed to tackle this problem. Launched this week at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's annual trade show here, Handmark Express packages and delivers Web-based information to Palm- and Windows Mobile-based, Internet-connected devices.
Just when mobile operators are finally getting their costly third-generation networks up and running, a new wireless technology pushed by the computer industry is about to mess things up.
I did some reviews on a bunch of new 802.11g router/wireless access points. So here is a list of the default logins, passwords, SSID's and some other info on them. Might come in handy when you are trying to hax0r into your neighbors router to foward some ports or something. Read more to check out the list.
Signs at a McDonald's in downtown San Francisco cordially beckon customers to surf the Web using its wireless Internet service, but no one is biting during a recent Wednesday lunch hour.
In fact, none of the 20-odd patrons scattered about the restaurant's two dining areas appears to have a laptop computer or wireless PDA on hand. A few peer over newspapers, while others talk quietly or stare out the window over trays of french fries and hamburgers.
