John Cox - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by John Cox

Article | 19/03/2008 DragonWave boosts gigabit wireless capacity

DragonWave this week announced two products aimed at improving the capacity and economics of backhauling wireless voice and data traffic.

Article | 14/03/2008 Motorola wireless LAN adds mesh to indoor networks

Motorola has released a Draft 802.11n access point that supports wireless meshing, plus a new wireless controller.

Article | 12/03/2008 CMOS radio chip reaches 5Gbps, Aussie researchers say

Australian researchers announced this week that they have created a 60GHz, CMOS single-chip radio that can transmit 5 gigabits per second over about 3...

Article | 12/03/2008 Wireless 11n net becomes a high-bandwidth way of life

In the US, Morrisville State College's deployment of 802.11n WLAN has been covered in an attempt to study the challenges facing early enterprise adopt...

Article | 10/03/2008 Hackers find a way to crack popular smartcard in minutes

People are starting to wake up to the fact that RFID-enabled smartcards now can be far more easily, and cheaply, cracked than ever before, as a trio o...

Article | 26/02/2008 Apple's iPhone SDK may be delayed, blogger claims

If you're holding your breath for the Apple iPhone software development kit, and your authorized attempt to build native applications for the wildly p...

Article | 15/02/2008 Cellular/Wi-Fi convergence wins over some early users

Early products and services that shift voice calls seamlessly between wireless LAN and cellular networks are proving themselves to enterprise users.

Article | 13/02/2008 WLAN stress test uncovers 802.11 performance problems

A rare large-scale, wireless LAN stress test using three vendors' equipment found many WLANs could run into a performance ceiling as they grow in size...

Article | 7/02/2008 Aruba introduces 'explosion resistant' WLAN gear

"Explosion resistant" isn't a label most of us expect to see on a wireless LAN access point, but Aruba Networks' new rugged access points are aimed at...

Article | 29/01/2008 Wi-Fi trial connects Massachusetts train passengers

The wireless access service is a US first, according to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, which oversees the state's commuter rail servi...

Article | 25/01/2008 BlackBerry servers gain new user, administrator features

Research In Motion has released a new version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server, along with a new social-networking client that ties BlackBerry into...

Article | 15/01/2008 What Microsoft could have said about the strange Xbox signal

After 37 days, Microsoft finally issued a statement in response to the strong radio apparently generated by its Xbox 360 game console that was noticed...

Article | 15/01/2008 Microsoft on Xbox's strange signal: It could be anything

After 37 days, Microsoft issued a 43-word statement on the report of a strange, strong radio signal apparently generated by its Xbox 360 game console,...

Article | 11/01/2008 CES - Vendors tune 802.11n devices to meet networking demands

One of the surprises to emerge from CES 2008 is the idea that the 802.11n wireless LAN standard just isn't good enough.

Article | 8/01/2008 Google's Android ambition is to reshape the mobile industry, report says

But Android faces big problems, tight deadline, says report.