We had an emergency here last night. My dear wife had a huge file she wanted to get to my PC -- to my printer actually. We have Wi-Fi, but the best solution turned out to be SneakerNet. Plug a flash ...

There’s a wireless connection that’s used by all kinds of people and all sorts of devices, and yet hardly anyone talks about it: It’s called Wi-Fi Direct, and it’s been enabling versatile, ...

Wi-Fi Direct is nothing new, but more people are finally learning of it and what it can do, and that has a lot to do with the growing device support for the platform. You see, the concept is all about ...

A form of peer-to-peer wireless networking, Wi-Fi Direct devices can establish wireless connectivity with each other without requiring a wireless router, hot spot or access point. The access itself is ...

A variation of the Wi-Fi ad hoc standard that allows two devices to communicate without an access point or computer in between. Wi-Fi Direct was introduced in 2009 by the Wi-Fi Alliance. Whereas ...

The first batch of Wi-Fi Direct products were formally certified Monday, launching a wireless technology in which devices will be able to communicate directly with each other without being on a ...

When the command executes, from the output, you’ll see the adapters are disconnected as you can see from the lead-in image above. Note that Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter and Microsoft Hosted ...

Hewlett-Packard is introducing its first iPaq handheld that can easily switch between traditional cellular and Wi-Fi networks. The h6315, which was co-developed with T-Mobile, operates on a ...