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American people are “borrowing” their neighbor’s Wi-Fi connection without any permission and asking. According to a new national survey about 32% of the polled say they mooch a neighbor's unencrypted Wi-Fi connection. That's nearly double the 18% who said they borrowed Wi-Fi in a 2008 poll.

"The reality is that many consumers have not taken the steps to protect themselves," said Kelly Davis-Felner, marketing director at the Wi-Fi Alliance, a non-profit trade group that commissioned the surveys.

An article posted on the PCWorld Magazine website analyzed the reports and data from the mobile industry and found that no wireless carrier in the United States actually has a 4G network while the companies persistently claim the opposite.

Researchers at the University of Texas found that most Wi-Fi enabled access points don't properly implement the protocol designed to reduce the power drain on mobile devices. As a result the performance gets inconsistent. However, the researchers believe the issue can be addressed successfully.

It is known that the power saving mode allows mobile devices to shift to a "sleep" mode between packet requests. But the practice shows that most devices stay in a fully powered up state until the completion of the entire transfer.

Shipments of Wi-Fi IC are expected to exceed 770 million units in 2010, about 33% increase over the previous year. 802.11n ICs shipments are forecast to jump up ahead of 802.11g and dominate the market this year, accounting for approximately 60% of overall Wi-Fi IC shipments.

"The 802.11n standard, which was ratified last year, is a powerful growth engine to drive the Wi-Fi IC market increases," says ABI Research wireless and semiconductor industry analyst Celia Bo.

According to a recent study by the National Center for Health Statistics about a quarter of US households use only cell phones instead of landline phones. The report says that while 15% of families have standard plug-in phones they almost never use them.

"One of every four American homes (24.5 percent) had only wireless telephones (also known as cellular telephones, cellphones, or mobile phones) during the last half of 2009 -- an increase of 1.8 percentage points since the first half of 2009," the report reads.

Apple iPad will likely be connected by many users to Wi-Fi networks rather than AT&T's cellular network, the chief executive of AT&T said on Tuesday.

AT&T did agree to provide wireless connections to the iPad tablet computer but Randall Stephenson says there will unlikely be many subscriptions because users will give their preference to Wi-Fi or prepaid services.

Intel is now offering a new Wireless Display technology, also known as the WiDi. By means of this device laptops are connected to HDTVs in a wireless way while other laptop to TV connectors require cables and cords.

Intel's WiDi requirements:

• laptop PC (based on company's Core processor family)
• HD graphics
• Centrino wireless technology

Apart from these, the Netgear Push2TV adapter is also required to deliver signals from the laptop to the TV. This adapter can connect to the TV from HDMI or AV cables.

 Ruckus Wireless, a WiFi solutions provider, announced the launch of an alternative option to wireless broadband that could compete head-on with 3G wireless networks. Its end-to-end solution called Wireless Broadband Access builds on a stable WiFi platform--which doesn't require radio frequency licensing unlike 3G--in generating wireless access for broadband users.