More people 'hijack' Wi-Fi networks

More people are trying to tap into unsecured but easily available Wi-Fi networks around them, according to the results of a poll from the Wi-Fi Alliance, states CNet.

Conducted by Wakefield Research in conjunction with the Wi-Fi Alliance, the results found that 32% of those polled admit to trying to hop onto an unsecured Wi-Fi network that wasn't theirs.

Some say they've done it only once while others reveal they've done it many times. That percentage compares with the 18% who admitted to borrowing a Wi-Fi connection according to a December 2008 poll.

Pepsi's bottle-making arm, G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottling, has installed a new network to improve business agility and lower costs, writes Computing.co.uk.

The company says it has turned to HP Networking solutions for standards-based technology and said it reduces the complexity of its network environment and provides a more scalable architecture for increased flexibility.

As a result, G&J has cited benefits such as being able to speed up and secure vital business processes, including order processing, billing and logistics for distribution to retail customers.

Malaysia's leading integrated communications services provider, Maxis Bhd recently introduced the Maxis Managed M2M, the country's first wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) service, reports the Business Times.

The Managed M2M is a set of networking and information technology technologies that are set to drive innovative wireless capabilities into a wide variety of devices beyond the traditional handsets for businesses.

"A thriving data centre industry in Malaysia will provide the critical infrastructure needed to make M2M work, in particular low latency data communications from devices to the cloud," said Multimedia Development Corporation's chief operating officer Ng Wan Peng.