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UPDATE EVERYBODY'S GOING WI-FI...
Since our May cover story on wireless Internet access, also called wireless fidelity or Wi-Fi, the technology has rapidly gained momentum. In June it got a boost when the group that makes rules for Wi-Fi agreed on a standard that increases access speed nearly fivefold, to 54 megabits per second. That means the systems' base stations, known as hot spots, will be able to handle more traffic and more complicated applications such as multimedia video transmission. Later that month, Marriott International finished rolling out Wi-Fi access in 400 of its hotels in the U.S., Canada, Britain...
...life and the old Palm OS 4.1, it can't be as quick and versatile as a full-size PDA. Fossil recommends that you stick to applications "designed for the smaller screen size." You'll have to cut it some slack for not having the latest Palm features like Wi-Fi connectivity, a built-in camera or a color screen. Still, it will free up space in your increasingly crowded pockets, and it's a guaranteed conversation starter--at least in some circles. Oh, yes, it also tells time, with customizable watch faces. --By Wilson Rothman
...Wimbledon may be one of sport's most old-fashioned events, but that hasn't stopped IBM from using this year's edition of the tennis tournament as a kind of tech lab. Equipment from IBM and Cisco is being used to turn the entire Wimbledon site into a wi-fi zone. Journalists will be able to file stories wirelessly from any location, and game statistics will be logged directly from courtside into the data-crunching network used by TV broadcasters. Perhaps the most useful innovation is the "Hawkeye" system that determines where a ball will land based...
...Chris Taylor's "Will You Buy Wi-Fi?" [TIME GLOBAL BUSINESS, May], an otherwise good article is marred by a throwaway line about 3G's being much better than Wi-Max, a new Wi-Fi standard, when users are traveling at high speeds. Our company, Wi-LAN Inc., has demonstrated since 1999 the performance of Wi-Max-like equipment with users moving at speeds of up to 100 m.p.h. Then, we did tests with users traveling at 70 m.p.h. while receiving data at 20 Mbps (10 times the data rate theoretically achievable by 3G systems). We have also received data...