Earlier this week, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced that certification of Wi-Fi Direct products had commenced, for device-to-device transmission of data.
With portable content like photos, videos and music taking center stage in the digital consumer experience, Wi-Fi Direct devices meet an important consumer need: directly connecting devices for applications such as content sharing, synching, ... [ read the full article ]
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I just see this as marketing for what it is, the whole concept is great but this is not a new product by far. Actually a lot of company's do put their own wireless adapters in their products and set it for their devices in fact a router will connect to most things which will cancel out the use for this product.
The Independent network idea has been developing over the years starting with radio then IR, bluetooth, WiFi and Mobile network. Apart from mobile network most of these are home based connections that will connect one device to another where when a home modoem is in place i don't see much use for individual wireless connects when everything could run off the home network.
I think more information is needed on how they can improve telecommunications
