Bluetooth body confirms Wi-Fi 'hijack' plan
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802.11 to speed Bluetooth transmissions MWC The organisation behind Bluetooth will tomorrow go public on its plan to borrow bandwidth from Wi-Fi, allowing the device-to-device wireless connection technology to offer faster data transfers when it needs to.â¦
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Bluetooth phone users beware, a new mobile virus is ready to pounce on your phone. The antivirus company F-secure has identified two new variants of the Cabir worm.
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802.14.5 is one of the many personal area network (PAN) standards around like Bluetooth and ultrawideband (UWB). Like most IEEE 802 standards, the wireless industry knew what the IEEE was doing (or didn&#39;t do in the case of UWB) was not enough.
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The $1.99 software needed to unlock fast Wi-Fi chips shipped with Macs last year is released, along with a new access point.
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NOVEMBER 08, 2004  - The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today is releasing a three-year road map for Bluetooth short-range wireless technology that includes a tripling of bandwidth and the ability to multicast signals to seven other
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(InfoWorld) - Texas InstrumentsÂ (TI) will develop chips for low-power devices based on a new short-range wireless Bluetooth specification, the company said Tuesday. The move comes on the heals of aÂ decision by NokiaÂ earlier this month to roll its low-power Wibree technology into the new ultra low-power (ULP) Bluetooth specification. While Bluetooth has been used mostly to connect larger devices such as headsets, keyboards and mouses to stereos and PCs, the new ultra low-power specification aims to connect much smaller button-cell battery-powered devices, like watches or sensors attached to a user's body. ULP Bluetooth uses the same 2.4GHz frequency as Bluetooth. ULP Bluetooth will have a range up to 10 meters (33 feet), similar to the Bluetooth Class 2 specification, which requires more energy. A button-cell battery powered device, equipped with the technology, will have an average operating life of one year and transmit data at a speed up to 1Mbps High-power Bluetooth Class 3 has a range up to 100 meters. TI already produces chips for Bluetooth devices as well as devices based on the ZigBee ultra low-power specification. The chip maker views ULP Bluetooth and ZigBee as "complementary" technologies. ZigBee, for instance, is a mesh networking technology designed to support thousands of nodes with some restrictions on quality of service and latency, according to the ZigBee Web site. By comparison, ULP Bluetooth is an ad hoc networking technology that links a smaller number of nodes to devices with high quality of service and low latency. TI will develop chips for both types of ULP Bluetooth implementations: a single-mode implementation for watches, sensors and other tiny devices to communicate with each other; and a dual-mode implementation to communicate with both single-mode and traditional Bluetooth devices, such as handsets. Pricing and product availability details were not disclosed. Â
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Still holding for UWB The Bluetooth special interest group (SIG) is prepared to embrace Wi-Fi as a high-speed connection option while it waits for Ultra Wide Band (UWB) to become available on phone handsets, according to presentations by SIG chair John Barr.â¦
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Bluetooth specialist CSR has packed a triple-mode a/b/g Wi-Fi adapter into a single ultra-small chip, complete with multiple antennas ready for 802.
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Perhaps it's not a handset but a slice of the wireless spectrum that Google is eyeing.
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Q Is it safe to buy one of those "802.11n" wireless routers now?
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Free app shares your connection with the world A new piece of freeware can turn a Symbian S60 handset into a Wi-Fi hotspot, removing the need to muck about with Bluetooth connections to get connected when on the move. Just don't tell your service provider.â¦
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It will feature ALK CoPilot Version 6 navigation software, a slot for an SD card, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
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Bluetooth products will have triple the bandwidth and be able to multicast to seven devices in future releases, according to Bluetooth backers, who defend the technology against Ultrawideband and other approaches to short-range wireless.
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Ten products to sport Wi-Fi Multimedia brand next week
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Dual-mode handsets will be able to connect to the company's worldwide Wi-Fi network on the cheap.
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Pennsylvania may block Philly's Wi-Fi plan. [News.com Extra]
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Would you like a corporate login with that espresso? Hackers have refined a new technique for breaking into Wi-Fi networks protected by the aging (and increasingly misnamed) Wireless Equivalent Protocol.â¦