Readers, are you ever embarrassed or let down by your vocabulary at parties and other social gatherings?

Do you feel left out while the in-crowd talks knowingly about "WiMax," "802.16d" and other terms that seem to be utterly meaningless?

Toss and turn at night wondering what broadband wireless could do for you?

Well, don't be a wallflower any longer. Author Tim Hills is here to take you by the hand through the 802.16 maze with the WiMax Guide -- a new report that takes the "why" out of WiMax

Contained within its glossy (Web)pages, you'll find:

It's literally minutes of fun for the whole family!

And once you have completed your crash course in WiMax, maybe you'll want to take our poll on the metropolitan area technology: 2005: Maxing It Up?.

And if you're feeling really confident, Unstrung has a whole day's conference devoted to WiMax on January 20 in New York City (see below).

— Dan Jones, Site Editor, Unstrung

Need to know more about the new metro-area wireless standard? Check out the coming Light Reading Live! conference:

WiMax – Why Now?
at the W Hotel, Union Square, New York City, on Thursday, January 20, 2005

This one-day event, hosted by Rick Thompson, Heavy Reading Analyst at Large, will provide qualified attendees from Light Reading's global audience an education in how WiMax will fit into their networking development plans for 2005 and beyond.