Wireless is the Future - Really New York NY

Posted by : Elizabeth Millard Ever since Guglielmo Marconi found a way to send a message across the English Channel without getting so much as a toe wet, making the world more wireless has been the goal of inventors, enthusiasts, and entrepreneurs. However, despite the advances in wireless telecommunications over the last 100 years, getting computers to communicate easily with each other wirelessly has remained a somewhat elusive goal. Security concerns, high prices, and conflicting technologies created a small population of wireless devotees eager to put their techie skills to the test, but left most people still tethered to their desks.

Ready for a revolution worthy of Marconi? Although it's taken its sweet time in getting here, wireless computing is set for a boom. Refined security measures have strengthened the weak links in the chain, and price tags couldn't look more attractive. Added to those powerful incentives for going wireless, there are initiatives afoot to boost the number of hotspots-places like coffee shops and campuses that offer wireless to its denizens and students.

Although it should be some time before everyone on the bus is surfing the Web, the possibility isn't as far-fetched as it once was. Wireless for everyone is more than just a goal for some companies-it's a vision they mean to make into reality, and soon.

Overcoming insecurity

There are many reasons that wireless has yet to be so ubiquitous that we don't even notice it anymore...

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