From wirelessweek

Boingo Wireless and Intel announced an agreement today to promote the use of Wi-Fi hot spots for business travelers.

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Three new processors for Wi-Fi PDAs from Intel

From cmpnetasia
By songdok: SINGAPORE

Intel Corporation today announced three new processors for personal digital assistants (PDAs). The new processors incorporate the latest microprocessor packaging and stacking techniques, and deliver higher performance and longer battery life in less space than previous versions.

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from cmpnetasia
Marie Lingblom, 26-Mar-2003

SMC Networks Tuesday unveiled a new wireless PC card with longer-range capabilities as the first product in its new EliteConnect High Power family.

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from computerworld
By BOB BREWIN


IBM introduced today what it called a "plug-and-print" wireless LAN adapter to support enterprise network printing on high-volume machines.
Mark Andrews, vice president of worldwide marketing for IBM printing systems, said the new Wi-Fi printing adapter shows how the IBM printer product line offers enterprise users wider choices than the line of printers introduced today by Dell Computer Corp. (see story).

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By Yardena Arar, from PCWorld.com

NEW ORLEANS -- Though far outnumbered by an avalanche of new cellular handsets, a handful of innovative wireless-enabled PDAs are grabbing some limelight at the CTIA Wireless 2003 show here this week.

Chief among the new personal digital assistants are the first CDMA models running Microsoft's Pocket PC Phone Edition, a next-generation BlackBerry, Texas Instruments' concept design for a Pocket PC Phone Edition unit supporting three wireless flavors, and the smallest Palm-phone hybrid to date.

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From (BUSINESS WIRE)

Combined Company to Offer Expanded Suite of Products From 802.11b at 2.4 GHZ to Gigabit Ethernet at 60 GHZ

Telaxis Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:TLXS), a developer of wireless fiber optic and Ethernet connectivity products, and Young Design, Inc. (YDI), a privately-held leading manufacturer of broadband solutions for Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs), common carriers and mobile carriers, today announced a definitive strategic combination agreement that would combine the technical capabilities and financial resources of Telaxis with the strong revenue growth, historical profitability, diversified customer base, and sales channels of YDI.

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by songdok
from the Hardware Zone

Taipei - Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), a leading supplier of core logic and graphics chipsets, announced the first chip in a new line of wireless LAN (WLAN) products. The SiS160 is a cost-effective media access controller (MAC) that conforms to the IEEE 802.11b WLAN standard and supports data transfer rates of 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 Mbits/sec.

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from slate.msn.com

By Paul Boutin*
Posted Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 1:59 PM PT


On the Top 10 list for misquoted statements, Moore's Law comes in a close second, right behind "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well." So many differing definitions abound for Gordon Moore's edict that two years ago, in a fit of desperation, I e-mailed the Intel co-founder and asked for the original. To my surprise, he replied. "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year" was his statement in a 1965 issue of Electronics magazine.

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By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 5, 2003, 9:00 PM PT

Wireless networking company Linksys on Wednesday released a PC card that supports two nascent Wi-Fi standards.
Linksys's Wireless Dual Band A+G Wireless PC Card for notebook computers supports not only 802.11b--the prevailing IEEE standard for wireless networking--but its newer cousins 802.11a, which sacrifices bandwidth for range, and 802.11g, which is supposed to be backward-compatible with 802.11b.

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With a goal of coming up with a way for owners of wireless devices to use them hassle-free in public wireless-area networks, Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto and Southlake, Texas-based Transat Technologies Inc. are combining technologies, the firms said Friday.

BusinessJournal 8 Feb 2003 (GMT)

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