Wireless Oom

From PC world, Oct. 2009
The Wi-Fi Alliance announced a new wireless networking specification which will enable devices to establish simple peer-to-peer wireless connections without the need for a wireless router or hotspot. Wi-Fi Direct has a wide array of potential uses, many of which encroach on Bluetooth territory and threaten to make the competing wireless [...]

01/08/2010
BusinessWeek – San Francisco Bureau
For consumers concerned about wireless network congestion, hope may be at hand. That’s the message from a group of tech companies backing wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, a way to get online without having to go through a traditional mobile-phone network.
The Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry group that includes Intel (INTC), Marvell [...]