CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. With patents now being questioned, Wi-Fi equipment makers may wait for clarification on any new licensing schemes before going ahead with full-scale production, said Jupiter Research wireless analyst Joe Laszlo. Networks based on Wi-Fi, or 802.11b wireless standard, have grown in popularity. Wi-Fi equipment allows people to surf the Web wirelessly, typically within a 300-foot radius surrounding a wireless hub. Intersil Chief Executive Rich Beyer denied Agere Systems' allegations, calling them "wholly without merit." He said production of the company's Wi-Fi chips will go on as scheduled while the company defends itself.

Intersil is the only defendant named in the lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in U.S, District Court in Delaware, Intersil has 30 days to respond to the lawsuit, Wi-Fi chipmaker Proxim, which now owns Agere's Wi-Fi product division, in March filed a similar patent infringement lawsuit against 3Com, Cisco Systems, Intersil and Symbol, The case is still pending, a Proxim representative said Friday, The four companies deny infringing on Proxim's patents, The chipmaker files olixar xtrio iphone 7 case & screen protector - red a patent suit against rival Intersil, alleging that the company is using its techniques without paying to do so..

The lawsuit alleges that Intersil has been using Agere's patented wireless techniques in Intersil chipsets without paying for the right to do so. Agere has patented six wireless techniques, all involving the 802.11b standard. The Agere patents involve the three major pieces of a Wi-Fi chipset using the 802.11b standard. Those elements, which are at the core of every Wi-Fi access point and modem, consist of a power amplifier, which boosts the Wi-Fi signal; a radio to broadcast the signal; and a media access controller, which puts data on a computer network.

CNET también está disponible olixar xtrio iphone 7 case & screen protector - red en español, Don't show this again, "In the cellular industry, it's finally sinking in that people do not want to figure out 'packets,' and they don't want to watch their minutes when they use data," said Alan Reiter, an analyst with Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing, a consulting company, The new Sprint offer matches the lowest price charged for unlimited Web access by any of the five major U.S, cell phone carriers, T-Mobile offers owners of its $199 Sidekick handheld device a $40-a-month plan that includes unlimited use of the wireless Web plus 200 voice minutes and 1,000 weekend minutes..

Sprint's $10 offer is available to consumer and business subscribers to its PCS Free & Clear plans who have a PCS Vision phone. The least expensive Free & Clear plan is $30 a month for 200 daytime calling minutes and unlimited talk time during the evening and on weekends. PCS Vision phones run from $150 to $240. Sprint's unlimited-data plan can be used with any of about a dozen different PCS Vision phones as well as with three different laptop modems. T-Mobile's offering is available on just the Sidekick device.