On November 13th, 2024 with 57 comments
Wi-Fi 8 (also known as IEEE 802.11bn Ultra High Reliability) is expected to arrive around 2028, prioritizing an enhanced user experience over speed by...
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On October 2nd, 2024 with 37 comments
Cisco is exiting the LoRaWAN market for IoT device connectivity, with no migration plans for customers. "LoRaWAN is a low power, wide area network...
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On June 17th, 2024 with 24 comments
A report from BleepingComputer notes that ASUS "has released a new firmware update that addresses a vulnerability impacting seven router models that allow...
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On September 25th, 2023 with 80 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Following the launch of the iPhone 15 series today, a few readers of our website have reached out to highlight that the...
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On July 14th, 2023 with 87 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: Today, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has added 802.11bb as a standard...
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On January 11th, 2021 with 38 comments
D-Link is trying to make it simple to give your computer a Wi-Fi upgrade. From a report: The networking company has announced what it's calling an...
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On October 10th, 2020 with 88 comments
"Most users don't seem to realize the severity of the risks they're subjecting themselves to while using hotel Wi-Fi networks," writes Windows Report, noting...
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On October 6th, 2020 with 28 comments
Amazon's Eero mesh networking company is introducing Eero for Service Providers. "This is an all-new hardware and software offering designed to help internet...
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On August 8th, 2020 with 132 comments
SuperKendall (Slashdot reader #25,149) shared this review of the recent 5G standards codified by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in Release 16...
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On February 2nd, 2020 with 6 comments
Slashdot reader JustAnotherOldGuy quotes ZDNet:
Security experts have published a report Tuesday warning that the new and fast-rising LoRaWAN technology is...
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On July 26th, 2019 with 57 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: For the better part of two years, the folks at Mozilla have been diligently chipping away at Mozilla WebThings, an open...
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On June 30th, 2019 with 67 comments
Nokia's CTO Marcus Weldon "told the BBC that the UK should be wary of using the Chinese hardware" -- though Nokia rushed to assure the BBC that Weldon's...
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On April 14th, 2019 with 85 comments
A herd of dairy cows in the U.K. "are enjoying the benefits of 5G connectivity before you," reports Reuters:
For the cows, among the 5G-connected gadgets they...
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On May 17th, 2018 with 386 comments
MindPrison writes: As ashamed as I am to admit it -- a longtime computer user since the Commodore heydays, I've been hacked twice recently and that has...
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On January 4th, 2018 with 205 comments
In the wake of damaging reports of a chaotic Trump administration detailed in a new book from Michael Wolff, the White House is instituting new policies on the...
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On January 3rd, 2018 with 58 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The feature is arriving later this month on the iRobot app, making it possible for WiFi-enabled Roombas to...
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On September 16th, 2017 with 12 comments
Mark.JUK writes: Researchers at Brunel University in London have begun to develop a new 10 Gbps home wireless network using both Li-Fi (light fidelity) and 5G...
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On September 15th, 2017 with 108 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Verizon is disconnecting another 8,500 rural customers from its wireless network, saying that roaming...
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On September 12th, 2017 with 121 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bleeping Computer: Security researchers have discovered eight vulnerabilities -- codenamed collectively as BlueBorne...
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On June 16th, 2017 with 47 comments
s122604 quotes a report from Yahoo Finance: T-Mobile, the third largest U.S. national wireless operator, has decided to roll out 600 MHz wireless spectrum in...
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On June 14th, 2017 with 263 comments
_Sharp'r_ writes: Professor Thomas Hazlett of Clemson University analyzed the history of wireless spectrum and concluded the technology was known and available...
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On May 21st, 2017 with 110 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Netgear's latest firmware update for the R7000 includes new support for collecting analytics data. The update release notes include...
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On May 11th, 2017 with 34 comments
Verizon has agreed to pay $3.1 billion for wireless spectrum holder Straight Path Communications, beating out rival AT&T, which had offered to buy Straight...
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On April 29th, 2017 with 41 comments
sciencehabit quotes a report from Science Magazine: Your wireless router may be giving you away in a manner you never dreamed of. For the first time,...
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On April 24th, 2017 with 208 comments
Earlier this year, telecommunications giants like T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint were battling to see who could release the best unlimited data...
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On April 2nd, 2017 with 76 comments
The end of the FCC's spectrum auction last week "should give a clear indication of how much space will be available in each TV market for Super Wi-Fi,"...
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On March 9th, 2017 with 60 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TmoNews: T-Mobile's new deprioritization threshold is 30GB of usage in a single billing cycle. While T-Mo didn't make...
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On February 22nd, 2017 with 64 comments
"T-Mobile USA is ready to deploy a new LTE technology over the same 5GHz frequencies used by Wi-Fi following U.S. government approval of the first 'LTE-U'...
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On February 15th, 2017 with 75 comments
Communicating news of severe weather events or natural disasters is something mobile phones are well suited to, but if there's limited or disrupted network...
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On February 11th, 2017 with 53 comments
An anonymous reader writes:An attacker compromised over 5,000 IoT devices on a campus network -- including vending machines and light sensors -- and then used...
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