A new wireless standard promising blazing speeds over short distances was recently adopted by the IEEE, known as 802.11ad. The ratified standard will deliver 7Gbit/s speeds over 60GHz frequencies and will start appearing in consumer electronics as soon as next year. In case you're wondering, WiGig is the consumer-friendly marketing name which will encompass 802.11ad and future revisions. Dell already announced a WiGig compliant Latitude 6430u Ultrabook . Additionally, chip makers like Marvell, Qualcomm and Atheros are all working

Does a dropped connection or slow speeds your smartphone or tablet drive you crazy? Flashbacks of the sales rep whizzing  on the Internet, or running cool apps on what would become your new smartphone instantly start happening and you wonder if you were sold junk. In a last ditch effort, you start holding the phone up in the sky, walking in circles, hoping you can pick up a stronger signal. Don't worry, it's not just you. It happens to

January 2013 The Transportation Security Administration will remove airport body scanners that privacy advocates likened to strip searches after OSI Systems Inc. couldn't write software to make passenger images less revealing. TSA will end a contract with OSI's Rapiscan unit for the software after Administrator John Pistole concluded the company couldn't meet a congressional deadline to produce generic passenger images, agency officials said in interviews. The agency removed 76 of the machines from busier U.S. airports last year. It

RADIO FREQUENCY DATA BACKBONE TO MATCH FIBER OPTIC CAPACITY -Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Fiber optic cables provide the core backbone for military and civilian networks, enabling Internet, phone, video and other data to move at super-high speeds with virtually no degradation over long distances. In deployed environments, where a fiber optic backbone doesn’t exist, other communications modes are used resulting in reduced data-rate capacity for the warfighter. DARPA’s 100 Gb/s RF Backbone (100G) intends to develop a fiber-optic-equivalent