Carol Ellison

About

Carol Ellison is editor of eWEEK.com's Mobile & Wireless Topic Center. She has authored whitepapers on wireless computing (two on network security–,Securing Wi-Fi Wireless Networks with Today's Technologies, Wi-Fi Protected Access: Strong, Standards-based Interoperable Security for Today's Wi-Fi Networks, and Wi-Fi Public Access: Enabling the future with public wireless networks.Ms. Ellison served in senior and executive editorial positions for Ziff Davis Media and CMP Media. As an executive editor at Ziff Davis Media, she launched the networking track of The IT Insider Series, a newsletter/conference/Web site offering targeted to chief information officers and corporate directors of information technology. As senior editor at CMP Media's VARBusiness, she launched the Web site, VARBusiness University, an online professional resource center for value-added resellers of information technology.Ms. Ellison has chaired numerous industry panels and has been quoted as a networking and educational technology expert in The New York Times, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, CNN Headline News, WNBC and CNN/FN, as well as local and regional Comcast and Cablevision reports. Her articles have appeared in most major hi-tech publications and numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor.

CA Partners with Microsoft on Free Security Solution

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 […]

Cleveland to Unwire Building Inspectors

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 […]

Can Wi-Fi Rescue VOIP 911?

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 […]

Radio-Hopping Leaps Ahead

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 Rolls Out New Mobile Services

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 Unveils Wireless Security Server for SMBs

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 […]

U.S. Needs Muni Wi-Fi to Plug Broadband Wireless Gap

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 […]

IBM Unveils Wireless Education Services

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 […]

Rio Rancho Boasts First Metro VOWi-Fi Service

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 Announces Wireless Metro Platform

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 […]