Most of us use a Personal Area Network (PAN) in our daily routines in front of our desktop and notebook PCs. PANs are technically defined as any network used to communicate with other slave devices ...

According to ICT Results in 'The Network of Everything,' wireless experts estimate that our personal networks will include about a thousand devices in 2017, including dozens of sensors checking our ...

Transmitting data wireless over a short distance. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct are examples of personal area networks (PANs). See Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct. In the mid-1990s, IBM's Almaden Research ...

My ZDNet colleague and PC hardware expert Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wrote an interesting speculative piece today about Apple's future and whether augmented and virtual reality hardware is where it is ...

The best-known personal-area network (PAN) is Bluetooth. Named after a 10th century Danish king, Bluetooth is a system that changes frequencies from moment to moment using a technique called frequency ...

An emerging LAN is very local indeed – the so-called “personal-area network.” A key technology being considered for PANs is ultrawideband, which is a radio technology for sending data at high speeds ...

This definitely isn't going to do anything to mitigate all the Borg jokes, but Microsoft has patented a method for turning human skin into a network that can transmit both power and data in a (very) ...

Bluetooth has been around for a while now (it originally was conceived in 1994 by Ericsson as a replacement for RS-232), and many of us have been enjoying the benefits of wirelessly connecting mice, ...

[Jovan] is very excited about the possibilities presented by Visible Light Communication, or VLC. It’s exciting and new. His opening paragraphs is filled with so many networking acronyms that VLC ...

You don’t need me to tell you that being a tech-head can pose a few challenges when travelling. Budget airlines often have ridiculously tight carry-on restrictions, which can make it hard to get all ...