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8/28/2008 9:53:21 AM
The IEEE 802.11 standards were originally defined with single access points in mind, but in offices multiple access points are needed. Devices can ...
Political Conventions Will Be Abuzz with Wireless Data8/22/2008 2:32:32 PM
U.S. presidential nominating conventions used to be criticized as "smoke-filled rooms" because of the cigars that party politicians smoked while ...
The Top 10 IT News Stories of the Week7/23/2008 9:04:13 PM
1. "Google Buys Messaging Security Vendor Postini for $625M," Computerworld, July 9. . The Google corporate universe could be growing again -- the ...
How to Buy Home Networking Products7/21/2008 9:52:08 AM
PC World - Introduction Photograph: Rick Rizner . Once confined to businesses and to the homes of hard-core geeks, networks have become ...
First Phone Switch Rootkit Shows Flaws in Telecommunications Systems7/21/2008 2:03:11 AM
A highly sophisticated spying operation that tapped into the mobile phones of Greece's prime minister and other top government officials has ...
Networking in 2006: Mergers, Wireless Advances7/14/2008 4:10:01 AM
If there was a big networking story in 2006, chances are it came through the airwaves rather than over wires. Most of the biggest issues involved ...
Fresh Standards Give Wireless LANs New Life7/10/2008 9:06:16 AM
For Federal Express ground, IEEE 802.11b isn't just another cryptic technical term. The wireless LAN standard represents "a powerful way of ...
Your Guide to Wireless Standards: Basic Definitions7/10/2008 9:06:10 AM
802.11 is a group of wireless networking standards, also known as Wi-Fi, set by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). A ...
9/11/2008 2:16:20 PM
Computerworld
Tim Berners-Lee is the creator of the World Wide Web and founder and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Cambridge, Mass ...
Why WiMax8/18/2008 9:53:16 AM
Computerworld
The hot network technology du jour is WiMax, an informal term that covers two emerging broadband wireless standards for metropolitan-area ...
Wireless LAN security flawed8/16/2008 6:35:19 AM
Computerworld
Computer security specialists at the University of California, Berkeley, sounded new alarms last week about the security vulnerabilities of ...
Cryptography pioneer critiques crypto practices8/16/2008 6:34:53 AM
Computerworld
Martin Hellman, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University, is the co-inventor of public-key cryptography. He recently ...