Mark Hachman

SAN JOSE, Calif.—According to wireless industry executives here for the Bluetooth Americas 2003 expo, Bluetooth is now boring. And to some that is both a good and a bad thing. In a keynote address, Mike McCamon, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group of Overland Park, Kan., said that while the short-range wireless technology […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Researchers at National Semiconductor Corp. said the company has developed a system-level Wi-Fi solution that could cut into the market share of wireless peripherals based on the Bluetooth standard. National, based in Santa Clara, Calif., has reached first-silicon stage for a technology that could “significantly” reduce the power requirements of 802.11 wireless cards, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The wireless market is significantly overfunded, venture capitalists said last week, portending a shakeout. Still, they couldnt help but list a number of new sectors that will need additional capital. If nothing else, the panel at the WiFi Planet show here Friday underscored the perception of wireless as a “hot technology.” Roughly $2.5 […]

In June, Infrastructure Development Corp.s CoreProtect division began offering CoreRestore, a PC card that could quickly restore a users hard drive using a protected partition. Now, the company has decided to offer that same protection to OEMs, system integrators and even hard-drive makers through the “CoreChipset”. The CoreChipset can be mounted to the back of […]

SAN JOSE, CALIF.—Wi-Fi security firms Cirond Corp. and Newbury Networks announced new products this week at the Wi-Fi Planet 2003 expo here that can seek out and lock down so-called “rogue” access points. Cirond, based in San Jose, announced two new versions of its AirPatrol security tool; the first, AirPatrol, uses wired networks to hunt […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Interoperability among the various IEEE 802.11 technologies will become “a real challenge” as the industry moves into a phased program for deploying multimedia services over Wi-Fi next year, industry executives said. In a panel discussion presented at the Wi-Fi Planet show here, industry executives responsible for the evolution of the IEEE 802.11 “alphabet […]

SAN JOSE, CALIF.—PCtel Inc. on Wednesday announced that it shipped Segue, the companys “soft access point” technology that can turn an ordinary PC into a wireless networking device. Shown at the Wi-Fi Planet 2003 show here, PCtels software offers a sneak peek at the wireless capabilities that Intel Corp. will extend into the standard hardware […]

SAN JOSE, CALIF.—Although the number of Wi-Fi-enabled devices is steadily growing, a Cisco Systems executive on Wednesday said the technology needs a few specific nudges to push it into ubiquity. In his keynote address here at the Wi-Fi Planet Fall 2003 Conference and Expo, Steve Nye, general manager of Cisco Systems Inc.s Building Broadband business […]

Symantec Corp. has acknowledged a problem with the activation feature included in many of its latest product releases, and has posted a fix to solve the issue. In Symantec products which require activation, a bug in the activation procedure forced users to enter and reenter the activation codes required for the software to work each […]

Third-party chipset suppliers have given their seal of approval to the Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 64 microprocessor, based on the number of chipsets slated to be launched next year. According to a recent presentation AMD made to its resellers, five chipset suppliers—ALI, ATI Technologies Inc., Nvidia Corp., Silicon Integrated Systems Inc. and Via Technologies Inc. […]