Electical Contractor

Wireless devices—including laptops, netbooks (the smaller, less powerful and cheaper PCs), iPhones, Blackberrys and regular cell phones—now dominate the news. Wireless is everywhere. I even hiked recently in a 4,500 acre nature preserve that had full Wi-Fi coverage at 50 megabits per second!

While dropped calls have become a running joke in cell-phone advertising, at least one form of wireless communication may be about to get better.

According to Network World, Intel recently demonstrated an 802.11 radio link with a data rate of approximately 6 Mbps and a range exceeding 60 miles.

The city of Philadelphia is steamrolling ahead toward its goal of becoming the nation’s first completely wireless major city. In May, Mayor John F. Street announced the approval of a 15-square-mile test zone for the city’s fledgling Muni Wi-Fi network.

Revolutionizing residential entertainment and communications

According to the Associated Press, the growth of wireless sensor networks presents the possibility of connecting people with physical locations and conditions in the same way the Internet connects people with computers.

It's called digital living—Are you ready to embrace it?

Online Gaming Revenues to Triple by 2009 Revenues from US online gaming services will increase from $1,100,000,000 in 2005 to more than $3,500,000,000 in 2009, according to “Networked Gaming: Driving the Future,” a new report from Dallas-based, market research firm Parks Associates.

Wireless technology is ready for deployment in hotel security Some members of the legal profession—those who specialize in plaintiffs’ liability lawsuits, for example—are licking their chops at the potential opportunities when hoteliers neglect the issue of door locks.