2 posts and columns on short range

World Without Wires: Wi-Fi Alliance Endorses WiGig

in News on May 10, 2010 at 8:29 am PT

The Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization that certifies the wireless industry standard, said this morning that it is allying with Wireless Gigabit Alliance to promote WiGig, a new short-range wireless specification capable of delivering data speeds of up to seven gigabits per second in the 60 GHz band.

Is Bluetooth on Its Way Out?

in News on October 14, 2009 at 9:42 am PT

The inexorable march of technology made wires and cable obsolete in the wake of Bluetooth and may soon do the same to the short-range wireless protocol. The Wi-Fi Alliance this week announced Wi-Fi Direct, a new short-range wireless standard capable of performing many of the same tasks as Blutooth, but at Wi-Fi speeds.
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