Many organizations recognize the value that a wireless mesh network can provide, but are unsure whether they should implement one that is managed or ad hoc. The decision revolves around how to ...

This interview with Scott Burke, vice president of engineering for PacketHop, originally appeared in the IT Business Edge weekly report on Empowering a Mobile Workforce. To see a complete listing of ...

A wireless network that transmits from computer to computer. Instead of using a central base station (access point) to which all computers must communicate, this peer-to-peer mode of operation can ...

Elektra- B.A.T.M.A.N's inventor. The self-proclaimed largest do-it-yourself wireless community network, Freifunk in Germany, has developed a new algorithm that the developers claim would revolutionize ...

Richard Myers says the future of ad-hoc mesh networks for SMS messages and bitcoin transactions on your smart phone is here, but it needs the lightning network to succeed. The episode is sponsored by ...

While the cellphone network in Haiti survived the devastating earthquake in 2010, the added load of international aid workers who arrived in the aftermath caused it to crash. Josh Thomas and Jeff ...

When you’re on the road, your portable Mac is often on its own, cut adrift from the networks it usually relies on for Internet access and file sharing. And while you can often get Net access, one way ...

Strange question here, but does anyone know of any access points that are capable of creating/joining an AD-HOC SSID? I have a strange application where I have a device with zero configuration ...

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell altered communications history when he invented the telephone. Just four years later, there were approximately 47,900 telephones in the United States. But telephone ...

A team called “Umbrella.net” (no relation to Umbrella Corp, we hope) has developed a prototype system of Bluetooth umbrellas that facilitate “sudden, striking, and unexpected connections between ...