Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:00 AM
It’s hard to imagine a time when laptops needed big ugly PC cards to access Wi-Fi networks built with Lucent access points that cost more than today’s netbooks. Ten years later, it’s impossible to find a computing device without Wi-Fi connectivity. Wi-Fi networks are everywhere. Every time I open my Macbook Air in my apartment, I am greeted by nearly 15 wireless networks. Such proliferation has changed our expectations of Wi-Fi. These expectations were part of the conclusions drawn from a survey of 2,700 Wi-Fi users –- 70 percent of them between the ages 18 and 45 — conducted by Decipher, a research company, on behalf of Devicescape, a San Bruno, Calif.-based wireless software vendor. Here are some of the key findings…
Om Malik
