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CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Toshiba is the latest electronic device maker hoping to ride the wireless radio city music hall with holiday tree, new york city, new york iphone case networking wave to boost sales, Intersil on Wednesday announced its own plans for producing 802.11a wireless networking chipsets, More manufacturers are planning to add wireless networking to laptops, PDAs (personal digital assistants) and PCs, However, the most popular wireless networking standard--802.11b, or Wi-Fi--doesn't create a signal powerful enough to send cable or digital music signals any further than a few feet at high speeds..

Home entertainment devices, which often create a tangle of wires to and from each other, are a natural customer for wireless networking. The issue of data transfer, however, has inhibited equipment makers from taking the plunge. However, the 802.11a standard, which offers five times the speed of 802.11b, could potentially solve the problem, analysts say. "The high data speed was definitely a requirement," Burt said. Farhad Mafie, vice president for Toshiba's chip division, said the company created the 802.11a chip to address "the emerging market of wireless audio and video distribution in the home of the future. We believe..it will become one of the key standards.".

Gartner wireless analyst Ken Dulaney said device makers' intentions make sense--just not right now, Chipsets and other 802.11a hardware on the market are still in their first generation, he said, Also, 802.11a is also not a truly universal standard, In Europe, where Intel and others are now selling 802.11a equipment, many radio city music hall with holiday tree, new york city, new york iphone case governments haven't approved of the use of the spectrum that the networks need, "This is a crazy time when vendors are going to be producing this stuff," Dulaney said, "But there's about a year of time now when 802.11a will be highly unsettled, Things could dramatically change."..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. Silicon.com's Graham Hayday reported from London. To read the full report, visit Silicon.com. A fall in the price of broadband has led to a slight month-on-month increase in the number of U.K. households and businesses connected to the Internet, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics. There was a 1.2 percent increase from June to July, the biggest rise since February. Dial-up connections still represent the lion's share of the total, but there are signs that the recent broadband advertising campaigns and accompanying price-cutting measures from the Internet service providers are having an effect, as permanent connections continued to increase their share. They made up 6.5 per cent of the connections in July, up from 5.9 per cent in June.