Carol Ellison

LAS VEGAS—Computer Associates took a giant step toward the retail channel Tuesday. In a joint announcement with Microsoft Corp. at the Comdex show here, CA said it would make one-year subscriptions to CAs eTrust EZ Armor anti-virus and firewall desktop-security suite available to qualified Windows home users at no cost. The announcement, which extends CAs […]

Next month, in a move designed to reduce the time involved in issuing building permits and inspections from days to minutes, building inspectors in Cleveland will begin filing inspection reports wirelessly from the field. The project is designed “to demonstrate a referenceable way to increase efficiency,” said Maury Blackman, vice president of marketing and business […]

What is an FCC ruling if not a business opportunity for some company? With every decision that marks a sea change on the telecom horizon, theres usually a technology solution to address it. Last weeks order that Internet telephone carriers provide full 911 emergency calling services, possibly as early as October, hit a rapidly growing […]

Think of everything you thought you knew about wireless enterprise networking. Get ready to change your mind. Thats what Motorola wants you to do. And if this months rollout of the companys MEA (Mesh Enabled Architecture) is successful, you may do just that. MEA is Motorolas vision for rearchitecting wireless mesh, getting rid of towers […]

Fiberlink Communications Corp., a provider of secure mobile workforce solutions, is rolling out three new services that extend connectivity over high-speed cellular networks, provide mobile voice-over-IP telephony, and protect against spyware. The services will be sold in separate bundles, but “they very much play together,” said Bill Wagner, chief marketing officer at Blue Bell, Pa.-based […]

Madge Ltd., a maker of wireless LAN management and security tools, has announced plans to ship a $899 wireless security solution this month. Designed for small businesses and remote offices, the WLAN Enterprise Access Server 100 is part of the companys family of EAS servers. According to the company, the EAS 100 is scalable and […]

PHILADELPHIA—Broadband Internet access in the United States is languishing behind other countries and without municipal Wi-Fi projects the situation is only likely to get worse. That was the consensus of industry leaders who gathered here this week to discuss the opportunity for public-private partnerships in broadband wireless at the W2i Digital Cities Convention. Even as […]

PHILADELPHIA—Trading on its experience in technology build-outs at campuses around the country, IBM is rolling out a campus service package for wireless broadband communications and voice-over-IP networks. The company announced the package at the W2i Digital Cities Convention meeting here this week. The offering, called the Wireless Campus for Education, is built on IBMs WebSphere […]

Carrier-class voice-over-Wi-Fi telephone service, the first of its kind in a U.S. metro deployment, is now available in Rio Rancho, N.M. The service, developed by Azulstar Networks and its partner, Ecuity Advanced Communications Inc., offers carrier-class fixed and mobile service and will be available on the Rio Rancho network, which now covers about 60 percent […]

Airpath Wireless is rolling out a new host platform for metro-scale broadband wireless deployments. The platform, called RoamBOSS Metro, promises a carrier-class open OSS (Operational Support System) with roaming and clearinghouse capabilities that will help mobile professionals easily connect and reconcile billing charges as they move from one metro area to another. The product is […]

Philadelphia Mayor John Street and Dianah Neff, the citys chief information officer, will welcome technology professionals from some 33 cities, as well as counties, states and municipal coalitions, to their city next week as representatives from Dallas to Shanghai gather for the Digital Cities Convention there. Sponsored by the Wireless Internet Institute, the convention promises […]

From the world of Verizon Wireless come audible complaints that someone was not listening carefully to recent comments made by CEO Ivan Seidenberg regarding consumers elevated expectations of mobile telephone service. The San Francisco Chronicle last week quoted Seidenberg as saying consumers have “unrealistic expectations about a wireless service working everywhere. Why in the world […]