Wireless

Source: E-Week

Source: SNP

Emmera, an independent Belgian company specialized in IT security, conducted "ethical war-driving" tours in Brussels (Belgium). The results of the study are self-speaking : on 304 wireless LAN's detected, 200 infrastructures were deployed without using any encryption method to protect their data. It would really be an easy task for a pirate to penetrate these "open" networks...

Source: Calgary Herald

In his green Honda CRV, Jason Kaczor looks like any other commuter navigating his way through Calgary's downtown streets in the early hours of the morning. Few realize he is a participant in a bizarre electronic scavenger hunt known as "war driving" -- a real life "game" that exposes companies and consumers who are vulnerable to a mobile hacker attack.

Source: ZDNet

Source: Wireless Starter Kit

In 2002, Wi-Fi--mostly in the form of 802.11b equipment--ruled the land. The faster, 54 megabit-per-second (Mbps) 802.11a devices that shipped during 2002 seemed interesting, but because they used a different frequency than 802.11b and also cost more, only a small number of early adopters and testers bought in.

Generic peer-to-peer computing networks such as JXTA and Jabber are often too complex for mobile devices. Thus, lightweight mobile clients or special architectures that work through relays are needed to extend those P2P communities to mobile users. This article discusses JXME, a J2ME JXTA client project. It examine the examples bundled in the JXME distribution to show you how to use the JXME APIs.

Source: CNN.com

A century after Guglielmo Marconi ushered in the era of wireless communications, his daughter marked the centennial Saturday by greeting astronauts from close to the same spot where her father sent a historic radio transmission across the Atlantic.

Source: CNet News

For someone whose company is known for making and improving processors, Intel CEO Craig Barrett sounded striking like a networking boss.
During a keynote address late Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show here, Barrett stumped for the versatility and wide accessibility that wireless networking provides consumers while managing to plug products using his company's chips remain a significant part of the networking food chain.

Source: NZ Herald

Reaper: Point and click information what next?

Source: Wireless Week

(AP) AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is sharply curtailing plans to launch services over a high-speed data wireless network, announcing Thursday it will target four cities instead of 13 markets as originally envisioned.

The Redmond, Wash.-based wireless telecommunications company also said it will delay the planned rollout of new services on the network by about six months to December 2004.