What does WiFi stand for? - was - Re: [LINK] LA joins Philadelphia in Free city wide WiFi

[Adam Todd]

At 06:53 PM 18/02/2007, Geoffrey Ramadan wrote:
>The only problem was that you could not guarantee interoperability between 
>wireless infrastructure and in our case a plethora of RF enabled mobile 
>barcoding terminals.

So from the infidelity to ...


>In order to mitigate this, Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) standards were 
>introduced, and the Wi-Fi alliance was established. 
>http://www.wifialliance.com/, which provided a certification program and 
>the use of logo (under licence) which independently validated a Wi-Fi 
>product (for a fee)

Ahhh, the "Fidelity" took to it's true meaning!  How quaint!


No wonder there are so many affairs in the IT&T sector!