• AirMagnet Unveils Fourth Generation WLAN Analysis Product for Handhelds, Laptops.
• wirelesscon.com
• AirMagnet.com

Cisco access points can send WEP keys in the clear, but not by default: A security flaw means that if an administrator enables a very specific SNMP monitoring option, an access point can send WEP keys across unencrypted links. However, because this must be enabled, and because it doesn't affect dynamic WEP, it's not a big deal.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]

• Cisco warns of wireless security hole.
• Cisco's Small Security Hole

Toshiba’s Imaging Systems group today launched the IK-WB01A wireless network camera. The $599 camera lets users participate in video chat, home surveillance or upload live video streams to Web sites. The camera includes a 350,000-pixel progressive scan CCD that delivers JPEG video images (640 by 480 resolutions) with audio at rates up to 15 frames per second, Toshiba said. The camera is expected to be available in late September.

The IK-WB01A includes a built-in Web server, which eliminates the need for an on-site PC to stream video across the Internet. The camera features 802.11b wireless connectivity, so users don’t need to place the camera near an Ethernet port when streaming video (an Ethernet port is included for users who want to connect a cable).

• NWFUSION.COM: Toshiba launches wireless network camera, Keith Shaw

Every morning you see her at Starbucks, off at a corner table, clicking away at her laptop keyboard between sips of espresso. Settling down with your own laptop, you fire up a new piece of software that scans the Wi-Fi wireless network provided by the coffee shop, and smile. The woman's name, face and a list of her interests have magically popped up on your screen. You have just experienced Trepia, a free program that some technology insiders are cautiously hailing as the next big thing in instant messaging.

• Indystar.com: Trepia software lets Wi-Fi users break the ice, A. S. Berman
• Trepia.com - your instant community

The SDIO WLAN Card plugs into any SDIO card slot a Pocket PC or Pocket PC Phone Edition running BSQUARE Corporation’s SDIO Now! software and enables wireless Pocket PC connectivity to 802.11b corporate networks and Hot Spots. The easy-to-use product represents the smallest form factor for WLAN cards with ultra-low power consumption, and it will enable a range of new WLAN applications.

• MSmobiles.com: SDIO 802.11b wireless LAN Card from Socket Communications Ships 8/29/2003
• Socket Communication

WLAN equipment shipments totaled 19.5 million units in 2002, a 120 percent increase from 2001 shipments of 8.9 million units. However, end-user spending increased just 29 percent in 2003 because of falling prices on equipment, the research house said.

• Electronic News: WLAN Market Sees Triple-Digit Growth in 2002, Gartner Says

This solution provides an overview of Microsoft's Solution for Securing Wireless LANs. The solution focuses on Microsoft's approach of using 802.1x authentication, RADIUS and public key infrastructure (PKI) to provide a robust, highly secure answer to the problems of current wireless LAN deployments for organizations ranging from several hundred to many thousand users. It will aid the IT Professional in understanding the design, installation, and ongoing management tasks involved. Topics include: secure authentication of wireless clients using 802.1x, EAP-TLS and Internet Authentication Services, tackling weaknesses in WEP, deploying a PKI with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Certificate Services, integration with Active Directory and Group Policy, configuration of Windows XP clients, and monitoring and management of these components

• Microsoft.com: Microsoft Solution for Securing Wireless LANs

• MSNBC.COM: Sony announces handheld PlayStation

Atheros Communications, the leading developer of advanced wireless LAN (WLAN) technology, today announced the availability of "Super G" and "Super A/G" capabilities that deliver 90Mbps TCP/IP throughput for 802.11a/g and 802.11g Wireless LANs. These capabilities include a new 108Mbps data rate design for 11g and 11a, real-time hardware data compression, standards-compliant bursting support, and dynamic transmit and modulation optimizations. Super G and Super A/G are fully backward compatible with conventional 11b, 11g, and 11a products and are activated by a simple software driver upgrade for products already on the market. Atheros' performance enhancements provide over 10 times the actual throughput of other wireless LAN solutions, are scalable to any number of users, and are fully compatible with legacy equipment. Other solutions that offer special turbo or bursting modes are only effective under limited network conditions and adversely affect users of 802.11b products.

• Atheros pressmeddelande (Businesswire)
• Atheros Communications