Wireless Home Network News

'Singapore's IT masterplan for wireless nation on track (Channel NewsAsia)
Plans to turn Singapore into one big wireless hotspot by September next year are on track. Operators as well as the public are looking forward to the rollout that will start from the end of the year.

'Connecting the home: Q&A with Menno Kleingeld, Philips Semiconductors (Digi Times)
The name Philips has long been associated with consumer electronics, but as the concept of the connected home has developed and begun to take on meaning, Philips Semiconductors has become one of the main suppliers of silicon for this segment.

'Hot trend doesn't need hotspots / Broadband wireless gains popularity, but $60 cost a deterrent (San Francisco Chronicle)
Chris Furbank, an account executive with a digital storage firm, had just come out of a business meeting at MySpace's Beverly Hills office when he settled into his car under the shade of a tree. Instead of taking off for his home office in Orange...

'Telstra threatens to scrap $2.2b broadband network (ARNnet)
Telstra chief, Sol Trujillo, has threatened to scrap an $3 billion national high-speed, fixed-line broadband network. The telco had proposed to build a next generation fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) wireline network to cover the five major cities initially, then extend it to smaller towns later.

'Cingular Invests in Vegas (Unstrung.com)
LAS VEGAS -- Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, continues to grow its network in the greater Las Vegas area.

'Do more with your wireless network (The Burlington Free Press)
A wireless network in your home is a great way to share an Internet connection, but it has many more uses. You can share a printer and turn your house into a multimedia wonderland.

'Wireless Internet growth brings concerns (Connecticut Post)
Access to wireless Internet connections is expanding at warp speed, but like many new technologies, there are security concerns.