Broadcom has announced four new 802.11n products
The new BCM4323 802. 11n, according to Broadcom, is the world’s first single-chip dual-band 802.11n solution for USB adapters. A part Broadcom’s Intensi-fi XLR WLAN family, the BCM4323 enables very small and cost effective USB adapters that consumers can use to connect to PCs, TVs, set-top boxes, personal video [...]

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The makers of Blackberry Smartphones, Research in Motion (RIM) are due to meet with Indian officials today in an effort to come to an agreement over the nation’s security concerns.
Security agencies in India have been pressing RIM to allow them to intercept e-mail that travels across its secure network. Under Indian law, the government has [...]

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IBM have released additional Lotus software fro Research in Motion’s (RIM) Blackberry platform, moving in to the Web 2.0 social networking applications.
IBM already offers core Lotus software that includes Notes based e-mail, portals, dashboards, messaging, calendaring and instant messaging, the company is adding Blackberry client for IBM Lotus connections, which is IBM’s social software for [...]

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While it was billed as the most important of any spectrum sales so far, the US auction of airwaves seems to have failed in the eyes of many. On the surface, a record take for the US government and a more accessible open airwaves system will look like something of a success but the [...]

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As the hackers of this world become more and more sophisticated there are real concerns that corporate networks may come under more severe cyber attacks over the coming years. We are seeing signs of new and more powerful viruses, hacking systems always seem to be one step ahead, but more importantly there are still [...]

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WiMax is a newer standard of wireless networking configured to supply high speed net access to the end user. A few people would address Wimax as wi-fi on drugs but this would be to general of a judgement. Wifi was and still will be utilized in local area network environments for the predictable time to [...]

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The first thing to do if you are experiencing Adhoc network problems is to check for software updates. Just visit the manufacturers website and see if new software is available.
Most manufacturers supply free downloads via their site. More often than not the version that came with the Wi-Fi network card is well out of date [...]

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Mark Russinovich, one of our Technical Fellows and a prominent member of the Windows community, posted today on a topic that’s received much discussion in the past few days — that being the manner in which Windows Vista throttles network traffic on gigabit Ethernet networks when the user is engaged in multimedia playback.
As Mark puts [...]

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