By Maggie Shiels
BBC technology reporter, Silicon Valley
The Wi-Fi Alliance said it would soon finish work on a new specification called
Wi-Fi Direct.
It will let wi-fi devices like phones and laptops connect to one another without joining a traditional network.
The
Wi-Fi Alliance - whose members include Intel, Apple and Cisco - hopes devices with the new technology will be on the market by the middle of 2010.
Owners of devices without Wi-Fi Direct will be able to upgrade through a software download, says the technology consortium.
The Wi-Fi Alliance's marketing director, Kelly Davis-Felner, told BBC News: "This is going to be a quick and convenient way to use wi-fi in future to print, synch, share and display.
"The consumer is going to experience this as a very easy-to-use mechanism that will be quite seamless."
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