COMMENTARY--Much debate is brewing over whether Bluetooth will replace WLAN standards like 802.11b. Yet, how can a technology, initially developed for cable replacement, be seen as a threat to a ...

Royal Philips Electronics announced new 802.11b low-power Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Bluetooth semiconductor “system-in-a-package” (SiP) solutions specifically designed to operate at the ...

NXP Semiconductors, formerly Philips Semiconductors, today announced an enhanced system solution enabling mobile users to simultaneously take advantage of handsets’ Bluetooth and Wireless LAN (WLAN) ...

Verizon Enterprise Solutions launched a software-defined wireless local area network (SD-WLAN) managed service within its Virtual Network Services (VNS) portfolio. The new SD-WLAN service manages both ...

Does Bluetooth (whatever version, but probably 3.0 through 4.1 in this case) operate on the 5GHz bands used by 802.11ac/g/a WLAN as well, or just the 2.4GHz ones? All of my regular computing devices ...

While we focused more on Texas Instruments' eye-catching OMAP4 development device when we visited the company a few weeks ago, we also had a chance to talk to their wireless chipset team. TI's combo ...

Qualcomm Inc. is making two acquisitions of Bluetooth and WLAN (wireless LAN) chip technologies, allowing it to further the integration of wireless networking capabilities in mobile phones. The ...

Texas Instruments has unveiled the industry's first single quad-radio package, incorporating WLAN 802.11n, GPS, FM transmit/receive, and Bluetooth technologies in one 65nm chip. The WiLink 7.0 boasts ...