Neowin News Feed for: Wlan

Microsoft deploys Linux powered WLAN

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:49:05 +0000

The next time Bill Gates sends an e-mail through Microsoft's shiny new Wireless LAN it will be passed through a behind-the-scenes Linux-based network appliance. Earlier this year Microsoft and Aruba Networks jointly announced... Read more...

WLAN Standards Get a Push

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:21:48 +0000

Officials from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers will meet in San Francisco this week to bring the wireless LAN industry closer to standards for high throughput, mesh networking and secure management frames. Since... Read more...

WLAN Security Spec Goes Open Source

Thu, 05 May 2005 11:56:20 +0000

Wireless LAN (WLAN) chipset maker Atheros Communications has released one of its key security technologies to the open source community. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company submitted code for its JumpStart for Wireless security... Read more...

Car-To-Car Ad-hoc WLAN to be created by 2006

Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:49:48 +0000

Found this rather neat article on The Register, infact, it was something I was discussing with a bunch of friends at college last week! Nice to know we are being heard. Car makers... Read more...

Cisco fixes latest WLAN flaw

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 05:10:06 +0000

Wireless local area network (LAN) products from Cisco Systems are under fire again after the release of a software tool exploiting an old vulnerability, but the company says it has a new protocol that fixes... Read more...

Second Cisco WLAN Security Threat Exposed

Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:37:31 +0000

Cisco faced its second serious WLAN security threat this week when a network and security analyst released a tool that attacks the company's proprietary Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) wireless authentication system. Joshua... Read more...

Intel Releases Linux Driver For Centrino WLAN

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:12:51 +0000

The folks over at Slashdot are reporting that Intel has released a Linux Driver for Centrino! Finally Intel has made their different announcements about Linux support for the WLAN part of the... Read more...

WLAN Future Lies in 802.11n Kit

Tue, 09 Mar 2004 07:36:40 +0000

The 802.11a standard has failed, according to some wireless LAN (WLAN) vendors, and it will take the implementation of the IEEE's proposed 108Mbit/s 802.11n specification to persuade both WLAN equipment makers and users to invest... Read more...

Intel to produce 802.11g WLAN module by year end

Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:01:35 +0000

Intel will begin mass-producing its long-awaited 802.11g wireless networking module at the end of this month, a senior Intel Asia Pacific executive has said. The Pro Wireless 2200BG unit will be offered alongside... Read more...

Intel to Bring Free WLAN into Desktop PCs

Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:16:49 +0000

Intel disclosed plans to integrate WLAN capabilities into its next-generation desktop chipset code-named Grantsdale. Earlier the company did not disclose plans to add support for Wi-Fi into its next year's mainstream core-logic. The move may... Read more...

Intel buys WLAN chip maker Mobilian

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:11:08 +0000

Intel has acquired the assets of little-known wireless networking chip maker Mobilian for an undisclosed sum. Mobilian's web site was recently updated to state: "Substantially all of the assets of Mobilian have been acquired. Mobilian... Read more...

WLAN logs onto GSM SIMplicity

Sat, 31 May 2003 13:13:43 +0000

We live in a world of complex technology. Especially the world of personal computers, and even worse when we take them out of the office and still want to connect them back to the network.... Read more...

Intel's Centrino 'a serious threat to WLAN chip makers'

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:09:46 +0000

Wireless guru Nick Hunn has predicted the death of several silicon suppliers who make wireless LAN (WiFi) components, following the decision of both Intel and AMD to provide the bulk of the circuitry needed, on... Read more...

Cisco eyes WLAN enterprise markets

Sun, 29 Sep 2002 05:37:52 +0000

Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc said it is fully committed to WLAN (wireless local area network) technology, and is positioning its products specifically at the enterprise market space. "There are clearly two... Read more...