Chris Gohlke
10-15-2009, 11:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/wi-fi-direct-enabling-p2p-communications-amongst-wifi-wares-sca//' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/...ifi-wares-sca//</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"After years of waiting for some sort of serious rival in the short-range communication realm, the Wi-Fi Alliance is doing what it should've done eons ago. Starting sometime in mid-2010 (if all goes to plan, of course), a Wi-Fi Direct specification will be published, enabling WiFi'd devices to connect to one another without some sort of WLAN hotspot nearby."</em></p><p>About time, I always wondered why they didn't do this from the start. My one concern would be that too many devices could really pollute the spectrum.<em></em></p><p><em></em></p>