| Wireless networks whether in the home or the | | | | being implemented. The Nintendo Wii can get |
| office have offered us mobility. No longer do you | | | | updates via a WiFi network if you have one in |
| have to be tied to your desk for want of any | | | | your home. Some of the controllers that we see |
| longer network cable or to find a patch panel to | | | | on the Xbox and PlayStation are also now using |
| plug your Ethernet cable into. As I'm sure you are | | | | this technology. There are other technologies that |
| aware most laptops nowadays will comes with | | | | are starting to also appear for example Bluray |
| built in wireless network cards. Although this was | | | | players are starting to have WiFi built in which will |
| not always a standard and really only started to | | | | allow it to get firmware updates and also a |
| hit the market around 2002 it has now become a | | | | possibility to transmit the signal to your WiFi |
| built-in standard that we all come to expect. | | | | enabled television. It's been said that the |
| We now see in the use of this standard in more | | | | technology used in WiFi enabled HD TVs code be |
| and more everyday items for example your | | | | in a billion consumer electronic devices by 2012. |
| mobile phone may actually come with WiFi built-in. | | | | But the fastest-growing areas for WiFi enables |
| We have seen the likes of Apple introduced the | | | | devices is of course mobile phones as this is the |
| iPhone, which offers WiFi access and an easy to | | | | biggest growth area we should start to see this |
| use touchscreen enabling Internet access to be | | | | appearing in most phones even lower end phones |
| simple and very easy to use. Many other | | | | in the next couple of years. Although Bluetooth's |
| manufacturers have followed suit like Nokia, | | | | is also a wireless technology found on phones it |
| Samsung and Sony Ericsson. | | | | has a limited this is in work over compared to |
| Game consoles are another area we see WiFi | | | | WiFi. |