Wi-Fi

Smart Antenna Firm Gets £1.5m To ‘Double’ Smartphone Battery Life By 2018

Sofant plans to commercialise smart antenna by 2018, boosting Wi-Fi performance and battery power consumption

9 years ago

Dell Teams Up With Aerohive For Wireless Network Management

Dell turns to aerohive for wireless network management, continues open data centre efforts and offers new switches

9 years ago

Vodafone And Huawei’s NB-IoT Open Lab Can Be ‘Catalyst’ For IoT Development

Huawei and Vodafone envision global network of open NB-IoT labs, claiming the standard is as important to IoT as the…

9 years ago

Half Of British Firms Ban Workers From Using Free Wi-Fi Networks

Research from iPass shows 62 percent of firms in four countries ban free Wi-Fi and 94 percent believe it is…

9 years ago

Free Brighton BT Wi-Fi Network Could Bring Better 4G

BT will build 40 Wi-Fi access points in Brighton and Hove in exchange for permission to deploy mobile infrastructure on…

9 years ago

Is Office-Grade In-Flight Wi-Fi Ready For Take Off?

Satellite broadband providers are launching next generation in-flight Wi-Fi networks. TechWeek takes to the skies to test out Gogo's office…

9 years ago

Brocade Acquires Ruckus Wireless In £1bn Networking Deal

Wireless infrastructure player scooped up by Brocade to strengthen 5G and Wi-Fi services amid growing demands for networking speed and…

9 years ago

Chronos Wi-Fi System Tracks Users’ Position Within Centimetres

MIT's 'Chronos' positioning system relies on a novel technique that works with a single commodity access point

9 years ago

Mobile And Wi-Fi Network Location Tracking ‘Places Users At Risk’

New studies highlight the user risks associated with round-the-clock tracking activity carried out by mobile and Wi-Fi companies

9 years ago

Boosty Combines Wi-Fi And 4G To Boost Broadband Speed, Targets Operator Partnerships

Sharedband CEO Paul Evans tells TechWeekEurope that technology powering Boosty could eventually be built natively into broadband providers' routers

9 years ago

Google Offers Internet Access For Cuba Amid Historic Obama Visit

Cubans to receive Google Internet access as frosty relationship between the two nations thaws

9 years ago

EU Court: Public Wi-Fi Owners Cannot Be Liable For Piracy On Unsecured Hotspots

Advocate General of the European Court of Justice says it is unreasonable to expect all public Wi-Fi to be secured

9 years ago

Free Wi-Fi Available On Half Of All South West Trains

South West Trains expands free Wi-Fi to cover even more services from the capital to south west England

9 years ago

New HP PCs And Tablets Come With Free Global Wi-Fi Access

HP and iPass extend Wi-Fi access to deal to cover the UK and rest of the world

9 years ago

Pure Wi-Fi Uses 10,000 Times Less Power Than Regular Wi-Fi

Researchers at the University of Washington develop system that could make smartphones more efficient and Wi-Fi suitable for IoT

9 years ago

10.1TB Superbowl 50 Data Record Shows ‘Maturity’ Of NFL Wi-Fi

Superbowl data growth isn't surprising, but will help NFL expand going forward, according to official Wi-Fi analytics partner

9 years ago

Devicescape UK Wi-Fi Network Reaches 500,000 Hotspots

Virgin Media partnership and retailers help Devicescape past half a million milestone

9 years ago

EE 4G Upgrade To Boost Chiltern Railways On-Board Wi-Fi

Trackside EE 4G network will offer "continuous coverage" to business travellers

9 years ago

NHS Gets Government Support To Go Paperless By 2020

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt outlines £4.2bn of funding to help transform the NHS

9 years ago

Why Super Bowl 50 Will Be The Most Technologically Advanced In History

Richard Dodgson, founder of Timebased Events, discusses the state-of-the-art tech that will ensure Super Bowl 50 is awesome

9 years ago

Super Bowl 50 Sure To Crush Data Use Records At Levi’s Stadium

NEWS ANALYSIS: Super Bowl 50 will take place in the world's most high-tech stadium in Silicon Valley, the technology capital…

9 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: The Wonderful World Of Wi-Fi

Are you reading TechWeek on Wi-Fi? Then you'd better do this quiz

9 years ago

Software Glitch Delays Delta Airlines Flights

Software outage delays two dozen Delta flights in the US, adding to growing number of aviation-computer incidents

9 years ago

Can Encryption Make Public Wi-Fi Safer?

With more connectivity comes more risk. Symantec says encryption can protect public Wi-Fi networks, users and help telcos improve their…

9 years ago

A Third Of All Home Routers Will Be Wi-Fi Hotspots By 2017

Rise of the homespot: Researchers predict more and more broadband providers will turn home routers into Wi-Fi access points

9 years ago

iPass Wi-Fi Now Available On 2,700 Aircraft

iPass signs deal with Panasonic Avionics to add 23 more airlines to its network

9 years ago

Microsoft Is Building Its Own SIM Cards

Windows 10-enabled Microsoft SIM will make getting online easier for mobile device users

9 years ago

Low Power 900MHz Wi-Fi ‘HaLow’ Standard Targets IoT

Wi-Fi Alliance hopes HaLow can offer the low power, long range connectivity offered by other communications technology

9 years ago

Two Thirds Of Brits Will Go Online On Christmas Day

One in ten would give up booze for Wi-Fi on Christmas day as Internet becomes increasingly important to Christmas

9 years ago

Free Wi-Fi Coming To All NHS England Hospitals

Department of Health hopes to improve connectivity and offer better services with free NHS Wi-Fi

9 years ago