802.11 Conference Announced: this October, the folks who used to bring you Internet World and related conferences (before they sold them off) bring you their first new event: 802.11 Planet. (This is not a sponsored announcement, by the way.)
Xircom announces Palm m500 series 802.11b adapter: This is an extension of their earlier Handspring Visor module formulated to fit into the Palm m500 series expansion slot.
Panasonic unveils laptop with 802.11b-connected LCD display: Neat idea, but let's hope they did it right. If there's no encryption (forget plain old WEP) between the laptop itself and the LCD, decoding the stream of data should be trivial. Panasonic said they had law enforcement officers in mind when developing this unit, so data transmission should be made more secure than useful.
Proxim backs off on revenue estimates: Proxim, the leading backer of HomeRF, a competing protocol to 802.11b, has reduced its estimates for revenue, which analysts attribute in part to 802.11b's growing success.