Super Wi-Fi Isn't Really Wi-Fi 145
adeelarshad82 writes "As reported yesterday lucky residents of Wilmington, N.C., will be the first in the nation to have access to a 'Super Wi-Fi' network. However, the only issue is that Super Wi-Fi isn't really Wi-Fi: Mobile analyst Sascha Segan explains the difference and also gets into why it's incorrectly being dubbed as Super Wi-Fi."
'wireless' is generic, wifi is not! (Score:5, Interesting)
for one, I do side with the big corps saying they need to protect their product name or protocol name.
is ham radio wifi? is fm radio 'home transmitters' wifi? is cb radio (gawd, I'm old) wifi?
how about our cordless phones? those are 'wifi' too?
assinine.
now, the other way around is equally wrong. when MS took 'windows' and now they own that word, that was wrong. apple seems to think they own a lot of common words and colors, too.
but wifi is not at all generic and didn't start out generic. it should be respected as its own thing and not name-stolen.
Re:Summary (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Useless article (Score:2, Interesting)
the answer is NO. if you had actually RTFAed :
You can't put a white-space radio into a phone or laptop because each white-space device must check its location against a database to determine which TV channels and wireless microphones are being used in the device's area, so they can avoid those channels.