Get ready for 5Gbps Wi-Fi

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: StrategyThe Wi-Fi Alliance - the industry body that oversees standardisation and product certification for Wi-Fi products - is to absorb the WiGig Alliance, a body formed in 2009 to fulfil a similar role for new wireless LAN technologies designed to provide throughput of several gigabits per second.

Communications Alliance is planning to develop guidelines for the end-to-end performance of Internet Protocol networks, such as the NBN.

Likewise announced today membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program as an Advantage Alliance Partner. The collaboration provides NetApp customers with identity management and authentication software for secure access control of NetApp® unified storage systems.

The Genivi Alliance has chosen the Linux Foundation's Intel- and Nokia-backed MeeGo operating system as the basis of its next & Apollo& reference release for open source Linux-based In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems. Meanwhile, the Genivi Alliance announced Hyundai as a new core member, and said it was planning an ARM reference platform for IVI....

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: TechnologyTwenty two companies have bandied together to form the In-Location Alliance to foster innovation and market adoption of high accuracy indoor positioning and related services.

Technology services consultancy, SMS Management & Technology has cemented a strategic alliance with business process management group, Pegasystems, to jointly deliver BPM solutions across a number of industries.

The Wi-Fi Alliance is getting ready to put an end to WEP and TKIP on access points and WiFi devices.

Jolla, the plucky Finnish mobile startup that’s largely comprised of talent cast off by Nokia as it slimmed down its own software development operations (in favour of leaning on Microsoft’s), has announced it’s setting up an alliance that will back its forthcoming MeeGo-based OS — codenamed Sailfish and due to be ready for licensing in spring 2013 — and help speed the

Today BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat and SUSE announced the formation of the Open Virtualization Alliance.