Matthew Broersma

The average British business is now hit by a security incident every month, or once a week for larger companies, according to the U.K.'s Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) bi-annual security survey, published this week.

Atheros Communications Inc. has begun volume shipments of what it claims is the industry's first single-chip 802.11g wireless LAN system, the latest product aiming to put Wi-Fi into new classes of low-cost, low-power devices, the company said on Monday.

Wireless hardware manufacturers and hotspot operators are going to be at the sticky end of a boom in enterprise wireless, according to a new study.

Toshiba Corp. has exited the Wi-Fi hotspot business after just over a year, and will sell most of its network to rival Cometa Networks Inc., the company has announced.

WiMax may hold out the promise of cheap wireless broadband available anywhere, but it will face an uphill battle against increasingly popular proprietary alternatives before it can become widespread, according to a study.