SAN JOSE, Calif. — Smarthome Inc., a large maker and retailer of home automation products, has announced a hybrid power line/wireless networking technology that it claims will fix the reliability ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Inari Inc., a developer of chips that support networking over power lines, is demonstrating its high-speed, 12-Mbit/second solution at the Connections 2001 conference in Seattle ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. – With home and small-office/home-office networks among the few glimmers of hope in networking, system-on-chip (SoC) developers are turning their ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Companies developing chips for home networks powered by ac power lines have stepped up to the plate with silicon and OEM deals, even as industry analysts continued to view a ...

Last week we discussed the delights of power-line networking based on the HomePlug standard. HomePlug nodes can communicate at up to 14M bit/sec. Note that we wrote “can” and “up to” – anything that ...

With an eye for the future, technology companies next week will tout new advances in home networking in hopes of taking ideas from the drawing board into the living room. At the Consumer Electronics ...

The Washington Post on power-line networking, a way to set up a home network through electrical power lines. There is even a new standard now for power-line networking, called HomePlug 1.0, but there ...

An industry-led initiative to establish a power-outlet specification for connecting products and services is beginning to bear fruit. Members of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance (San Ramon, CA) have ...

Netgear launches two new high-speed Powerline Adapter kits; one is compact and lightweight and the other incorporates a pass-through power outlet. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET ...

Fast in-home networks over electrical wires got a boost on Friday as proponents of two rival technologies merged their approaches and said products already in the market will work together. The ...