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 ...

Wireless experts believe that, by 2017, personal networks will have to cope with at least a thousand devices, like laptops, telephones, mp3 players, games, sensors and other technology. To link these ...

The wireless market has seemingly been dominated by cellular and wireless-local-area networks (WLANs). Though other technologies have been holding their own or even flourishing, they don't garner the ...

The budding field of Body Area Networks gives new meaning to the term "personal" in PCs. In a nutshell, the technology leverages wireless communications protocols that allow for low-powered sensors to ...

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) ...

[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 ...