Word: wi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Playing spoiler is a wireless Internet access system called Wi-Fi that is increasingly available in airports, restaurants, hotels, subway stations and other public places. Originally intended for use in private home and office networks, Wi-Fi (which stands for wireless fidelity) isn't as sophisticated as 3G cellular. The small, stand-alone Wi-Fi transmitters that pass information between computers and the Internet have a range of about 90 m; you can't roam far from a base station without losing the connection. But blazing speed?data zips along at 11 megabits per second, more than five times faster...
...continues to spread, Wi-Fi could capture up to one-third of the revenues mobile carriers had hoped to get from corporate 3G users, according to some industry analysts. Portable computer makers now sell many models with built-in Wi-Fi capabilities (the technology is also referred to as Wireless LAN, for local-area network, or as 802.11b). Setting up a network takes no license and no special skills. A simple base station costs as little...
...Grassroots Wi-Fi access points, called "hot spots," are already spreading throughout Asia. Hong Kong's Rosedale Hotel, for example, wanted to market itself as a cyberboutique. Last year the establishment spent a mere $650 to install Wi-Fi and now gives wireless broadband service away to guests. In Singapore, networking giant Cisco systems has helped put hot spots in A&W Restaurants, shopping plazas and at the city's convention center. In Japan, NTT Communications has announced it intends to sprinkle Wi-Fi base stations around the country?a move that observers say could pickpocket revenue from sister company...
...appeal seems obvious to those who have tried it. "My students look at this new technology with such awe and admiration," says Lee Kook Heon, a Ph.D candidate and teacher at South Korea's Sahmyook University who uses Wi-Fi to retrieve visual aids from the Internet during classes. "It's easy to use. I would prefer it over...
...million Bluetooth chipsets will be shipped this year. But most Bluetooth-enabled consumer hardware will be out next year. Meanwhile, Bluetooth is earning its stripes in industrial applications. UPS, for instance, announced a $100 million plan last month to use Bluetooth in ring scanners for package sorters and Wi-Fi in its world-wide mobile network. The project, industry analysts say, is a model of how the standards can complement each other...