The wireless industry has a reputation for over-promising and under-delivering, and there’s a healthy list of contenders vying for the crown of most disappointing technology. Sadly, it looks like the short-range wireless technology, ultra-wide band, may be about to join these ranks. Last week, is was reported that Texas Instruments has dropped out of the WiMedia Alliance – the industry body behind the UWB standard - and IMS Research released a research piece stating that UWB must succeed in 2008 or else face an uncertain future. UWB, like WiMAX, was hijacked by Intel who more or less usurped the IEEE as the authority guiding its development. Now, the standard is struggling to secure a foothold in the market despite repeated promises that the technology is imminent.