The long courtship between the Wi-Fi Alliance and the Wireless Gigabit Alliance, which promotes a fast wireless LAN technology that runs on very high frequencies, is set to end in marriage just a little too late for the International CES ...
Tags: WiFi Alliance, the Wireless Gigabit Alliance, LAN technology
Japan's biggest cellular network operator, NTT DoCoMo, is working with Intel and Samsung on development of the Tizen operating system and the first smartphone based on the platform could be out in Japan in 2013, according to a Japanese ...
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The Wi-Fi Direct standard may get a much-needed boost next year from work by the Wi-Fi Alliance to make it easier to use for both consumers and developers. The specification for peer-to-peer links among devices debuted in 2010 and has ...
Tags: Wi-Fi Direct, standard, Galaxy S III, alliance
The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched a program to certify products that support TDLS (Tunneled Direct Link Setup), a technology that allows devices to automatically create a link between each other after accessing a wireless network, removing ...
Tags: Wi Fi, Computer Products, tunnel technology, wireless performance
Tizen 2.0, the open-source smartphone operating system, is now available as an alpha release with an accompanying software development kit (SDK), the Tizen project announced on Tuesday. The release lends credence to rumors that project ...
Tags: software, Computer Products, Samsung, Tizen based smartphone
Six months from now, enterprise IT groups will be facing a big change for their Wi-Fi networks: the shift to 802.11ac, which promises wireless data rates that start at 433Mbps. But what's on paper and what happens in the real world are ...
Tags: IT groups, Wifi, networks, 802.11ac, wireless data rates
Despite widespread calls for more spectrum to carry mobile data, there is a wide range of technologies already being used or explored that could help to speed up networks or put off the day when more frequencies need to be cleared. ...
Tags: spectrum, mobile data, technologies, could, networks
Nvidia on Thursday said it will bring wireless display to its Tegra chips, which will allow tablets and smartphones based on the chips to beam images and audio directly to high-definition TVs. The technology being implemented in Tegra ...
Tags: Nvidia, wireless display, Tegra chips, ablets, smartphones
Broadcom plans to bring IEEE 802.11ac Wi-Fi to smartphones starting early next year, using a chipset announced Tuesday that the company said can deliver about 300Mbps of real-world speed. The 802.11ac standard is the next generation of ...
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The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched a certification program for its Miracast video transmission specification, offering a seal of approval that should ensure many different phones, tablets, laptops, TVs and other products can send video to each ...
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The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched a certification programme for its Miracast video transmission specification, offering a seal of approval that should ensure many different phones, tablets, laptops, TVs and other products can send video to ...
Tags: Miracast, video streaming, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Alliance
Wi-Fi offloading helps network operators cope with rapidly increasing data traffic from mobile devices,writes Adrian Schumacher from Rohde&Schwarz. Smart devices make it convenient to access the Internet from virtually anywhere because ...
Tags: Wi-Fi, smart devices.MNOs, ANDSF
IDG News Service-Wi-Fi chip makers are lining up to add WiGig technology to their wireless LAN products,preparing the way for tri-band equipment that can deliver multi-gigabit speeds within a room. On Monday,Marvell Technology Group ...
Tags: chip partnership, WiGig wireless, wireless LAN, Wi-Fi Alliance
The Wi-Fi Direct Services specification that the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to finish next year should help to extend the use of Wi-Fi Direct beyond proprietary implementations,the organization says. The emerging specification,in the early ...
Tags: Wi-Fi Direct Services specification, Kelly Davis-Felner
To achieve higher download and upload speeds,vendors and operators are planning to use a number of different technologies over the coming years in both HSPA and LTE networks. At their core,many of these technologies are related to ...
Tags: Mobile Networks, smartphone, MIMO, Uplink Transmit Diversity, spectrum