The Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint program will aim to make finding and getting on hotspots invisible to the user.

As the U.S. Army ponders how to give every soldier a smartphone loaded with apps for military purposes -- and be able to support global communications not only with commercial cellular networks like Sprint, Verizon or AT&T -- it is also exploring how it can quickly set up its own wireless network almost anywhere in the world.

In a reversal of course, Google now says that it will give European regulators data it secretly collected from open wireless networks over the past three years.

Nearly three weeks after admitting that it had sniffed sensitive data from open wireless networks around the world, Google is now facing at least six U.S. class-action lawsuits over its practice.

A consumer group has called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google after the search company revealed that it had been collecting people's Internet communications from open wireless networks.

Just as a new hack, blacksn0w, promises to unlock iPhones with the latest Apple software from AT&T's wireless network, Apple is looking for a sheriff to lock the smartphones back up again, permanently.

The world's largest mobile phone service provider on Monday signed a US$1 billion deal to buy a range of wireless networking and 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) equipment from Alcatel-Lucent.

Az amerikai Mayo Klinika, a világ legnagyobb integrált, nem profitorientált egészségügyi szolgáltatója a betegellátás színvonalának emelése érdekében rendszerbe állította a Cisco Unified Wireless Network nevű egységes vezeték nélküli hálózati megoldását. A hálózat az Egyesült Államokban működő három kórház területén mintegy 40 000 orvos, nővér és kórházi személyzet számára biztosítja a mobil szolgáltatások széles skáláját.

Advanced Micro Systems Inc. introduced a new chipset for mobile computing on wireless networks Wednesday in an attempt to get ahead of similar news expected soon from rival Intel Corp.

Hewlett-Packard Co. researchers have developed a memory chip with wireless networking capabilities that is roughly the same size as a grain of rice, the company said Monday.

A design flaw in Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems with built-in wireless capabilities could be exploited by hackers to lure Wi-Fi users into connecting to malicious wireless networks, according to Microsoft Corp., which recently completed an investigation of the issue.