Devicescape says nearly one in three smartphone buyers never bother to connect their devices to their home Wi-Fi networks, but it’s developed a means of luring those customers into the Wi-Fi fold. Read more »
Does the world need 2 Gbps Wi-Fi connections? Rusnano, Bright Capital and several other venture capital firms think it does. They have invested $79 million in Quantenna Communications to build the chips that will make such multi-gigabit wireless local area networks possible. Read more »
The Wi-Fi Alliance has teamed up with a group founded by the big chip vendors to promote a wireless HD video transfer at 7 Gbps across short distances, crushing the potential success of startups that had hoped to create their own standards. Read more »
Service providers have a huge opportunity in front of them with home networks, according to a Forrester report out today — but they need to move quickly. The firm found that around 33 percent of U.S. households — or 39.3 million — have a home network, which […] Read more »
While the future make look bright for Wi-Fi, when it come to the next generation of home networking, it is not catch-all technology that some are making it out to be. Indeed, there are some areas of home networking that may not involve Wi-Fi at all. Read more »