Total Wi-Fi shipments reached 5 billion in 2012, will almost quadruple by 2017

Total cumulative global WiFi shipments reached five billion in 2012, according to ABI Research. And the pace of innovation isn't slowing, with new WiFi protocols rolling out in 2013 and close to 20 billion WiFi-enabled devices predicted to be in the market by 2017.

Netgear promises super-fast wireless routers, embraces digital media

Netgear knows that while you occasionally want to check work email at home, what you really want a fast home network for is watching HD shows that you’re streaming wirelessly from the internet.

To that end, the company will be …

Broadcom expects widely supported faster Wi-Fi next year

Broadcom, one of the biggest wireless chip makers, is expecting a new form of Wi-Fi to arrive next year to make wireless networking faster, more battery efficient, and longer range.

The new version of Wi-Fi wireless networking is called 802.11ac, …