• Tourism Northern Territory rolls out free Wi-Fi service in Alice Springs

  Alice Springs visitors and locals will be able to access three hours of free Wi-Fi every day following the rollout of a service by Tourism Northern Territory (NT) in the city’s Todd Mall.

  By Hamish Barwick | 02 May, 2013 09:43

  Tags: Wi-Fi, Tourism NT, Alice Springs, free Wi-Fi

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  Faster Wi-Fi network on the way for UNSW students

  An upgrade of the University of New South Wales’ Wi-Fi network is underway which could offer students speeds of up to 1.3 Gigabits per second.

  By Hamish Barwick | 01 May, 2013 01:01

  Tags: Wi-Fi, university of new south wales, wireless access point, cisco

• Smaller cell systems needed for power hungry 4G networks: CEET

  4G long term evolution (LTE) networks could consume up to 59.3 per cent of wireless cloud energy by 2015, according to research by the Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications (CEET).

  By Hamish Barwick | 11 April, 2013 13:01

  Tags: 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, cloud energy, Wi-Fi, 4g, Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications, CommsDay Summit

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  Hotspot 2.0 will enable enterprises to wholesale Wi-Fi access

  The most widely anticipated but least understood "next big thing" in the networked world is Hotspot 2.0 (HS 2.0).

  By David Callisch, VP of marketing, Ruckus Wireless | 08 April, 2013 17:04

  Tags: Wi-Fi, indoor Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless Broadband Alliance, wireless, Wi-Fi Alliance, WLANs / Wi-Fi, Hotspot 2.0, public Wi-Fi, enterprise Wi-Fi

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  Apple leverages Wi-Fi location with latest acquisition

  Apple has bought a small software startup that lets smartphones and tablets pinpoint their location indoors using nearby Wi-Fi signals.

  By John Cox | 25 March, 2013 16:13

  Tags: The Wall Street Journal, wireless, wifislam, wall street journal, location services, wifi location, Mergers and acquisitions, Apple, corporate issues, wifi location services, indoor gps, Google, acquisitions, WLANs / Wi-Fi, apple acquisition, mergers, business issues, Wi-Fi, location platform, Networking

• Troubleshoot sluggish or non-working Wi-Fi

  I'm a big fan of working at offsite locations--meaning my local Wi-Fi-equipped coffee shop. In fact, I'll often spend the afternoon hunkered down at Panera Bread, iced tea in one hand and a French Toast bagel in the other. (It's bad form to set up shop without buying something.)

  By Rick Broida | 29 July, 2010 08:22

  Tags: Wi-Fi, networks, telecommunication, Networking, mobile, internet

• 5 Tips for Pain-Free Wireless Home Networking

  Hair-pullingly bad experiences with wireless networking have led me to formulate Snyder's First Law of Home Networking: No matter who sells you the router, you'll have at least one excruciating session with tech support before you have an Internet connection.

  By Bill Snyder | 11 May, 2010 07:06

  Tags: Wi-Fi, Networking

• How to diagnose a bad Wi-Fi connection

  Network problems are the thorniest to resolve. They've been known to reduce my vocabulary to curses so strong they'd embarrass Quentin Tarantino.

  By Lincoln Spector | 14 December, 2009 16:27

  Tags: Wi-Fi, Networking

• Find yourself on Google Latitude without GPS or a phone

  Google Latitude is a useful--if slightly creepy--way to track your location on a mobile phone or GPS laptop. But you can get roughly the same sense of fleeting privacy on any old Wi-Fi PC; Google Latitude automatically pegged me within about 100 feet of my ground-floor office on GPS-free laptop.

  By Zack Stern | 12 February, 2009 07:10

  Tags: Wi-Fi, google latitude

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  Opinion: The Internet of Things, huge data, and Starbucks

  Gibbs ponders how a Starbucks coffee cup could become the greatest business edge

  By Mark Gibbs | 18 January, 2013 15:16

  Tags: Wi-Fi, applications, Networking, wireless, data mining, software, big data, WLANs / Wi-Fi, business intelligence, starbucks, coffee, Internet of Things

• Google Wi-Fi snooping should serve as security wakeup call

  The continuing saga of Google's wireless snooping and the maelstrom it's generated won't end anytime soon.

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 29 May, 2010 00:31

  Tags: network security, Wi-Fi, Google, Networking, security, privacy

• Google Wi-Fi data snooping: An FAQ

  Google is cleaning up its mess after the company says it mistakenly collecting browsing data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks as part of its Street View project.

  By Ian Paul | 19 May, 2010 04:20

  Tags: google street view, Wi-Fi, Google, privacy

• What's next for Wi-Fi?

  The recent formal approval of the IEEE 802.11n wireless standard marks not the end but the start of a wave of Wi-Fi innovation. In the next three to five years, the Wi-Fi experience will be very different from today.

  By John Cox | 13 November, 2009 08:40

  Tags: Wi-Fi, Networking, 802.11n

• 802.11n set for final approval

  Sometime on Friday, at the sprawling Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., an IEEE group called the Standards Board is expected to approve the 802.11n wireless LAN standard.

  By John Cox | 11 September, 2009 06:07

  Tags: Wi-Fi, 802.11n

Whitepapers about Wi-Fi

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  BYOD in Healthcare

  In today’s healthcare environment, more and more people are bringing their Wi-Fi devices into the hospital’s infrastructure. This presents a unique challenge to the hospital IT administrator. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions on how HP addresses the security and management of multiple Wi-Fi devices being introduced into the wireless/wired network. Click for more!

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  Case Study: Microsoft Corporate Headquarters Runs Lync Over Aruba Wi-Fi

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  The New Normal: Mobile Device and App Behaviour Over Wi-Fi and Best Practices for Wireless Networks

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  Vendor Landscape: Wireless LAN