Carol Ellison

Scott Fox, former chairman of the board of the GSM Association, recently joined the board of directors of BelAir Networks, an aggressive young startup launched in 2003 producing scalable wide-area wireless mesh solutions in the hot, but often contentious, metro market. Fox is currently the chairman and CEO of Global View Partners Inc., a privately […]

Somebody should have reminded Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon Communications, that silence truly can be golden—like at those times when you come off looking as dumb as the ideas that you call “dumb.” Its not often that a $13 million salaried CEO of a $71 billion company deigns to sit down with a bunch of […]

Before it was the World Wide Web, the Internet started life as DARPAnet, a nationwide computer network that connected U.S. government with the nations leading research universities. Although students and faculty members at virtually all universities and many school systems routinely access the Internet through their local networks today, gaining access from remote campuses is […]

Days after Philadelphia rolled out its plans to go wireless, Minneapolis unveiled plans to provide wireless Internet access to the citys business, residents, governmental officials and visitors. The citys RFP, to be issued Wednesday, is expected to call for a privately owned, $15 million to $20 million citywide wireless and fiber-optic network. Contracts are expected […]

Enterprise IT managers are likely to see more Wi-Fi products certified for high security entering the market. The Wi-Fi Alliance, which tests and certifies wireless products to assure interoperability, said it will begin using four new authentication protocols to test products for WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2)/802.11i interoperability. “We basically had support for EAP-TLS, and […]

Nice Office, eAgency Systems web-enabled sales force automation/customer relationship management solution, is coming to the BlackBerry platform. The version of Nice Office designed for Research in Motion Ltd.s BlackBerry wireless solution will provide wireless sync capabilities, allowing subscribers to the BlackBerry messaging service to access and monitor contacts, sales, production and other business data without […]

Back in the days of the first OPEC-inspired energy crisis, an editorial cartoonist by the name of Jules Pfeiffer drew then-president Richard Nixon cutting cloth from one end of a blanket and sewing it back on the other, declaring that this was his answer to the problem. He called it Daylight Saving Time. The idle […]

A camera hovering 10 feet above the MemoryLink booth at the ISC West security conference in Las Vegas can capture the facial expressions on show attendees hundreds of feet away, according to Tim Ellsworth, vice president of sales and marketing for MemoryLink. The device, part of a new high-bandwidth, high-security wireless video-communication system from MemoryLink, […]

Grokster has hit the agenda of the U.S. Supreme Court. It promises to be one of those landmark legal battles that will produce a decision that profoundly changes life in these United States. In this case, its digital life. Grokster, if youre not already familiar with it, is the peer-to-peer network thats raised the hackles […]

The Round Rock Express, a triple-A minor-league baseball team, is set to take on the neighboring major-league Houston Astros on opening day Friday in the minor-leaguers own stadium in Round Rock, Texas: the just-gone-wireless Dell Diamond. The Express has teamed up with Wayport, the nationwide Internet access provider and operator of some 7,000 hotspots in […]

In the ocean of big and noisy debates that surround the push for wireless standards, one small but quiet ripple this month went largely unnoticed. But it represents a sea change in the effort to ensure that standards, once adopted, get adopted worldwide. While working groups of the IEEE were working their way through proposals […]

Wheres the data? Thats the question on the minds of mobile professionals and the IT departments responsible for that data whenever a device is missing, and Pointsec Mobile Technologies has partnered with Smartner Information Systems Ltd., a provider of push e-mail solutions for mobile devices, in an effort to provide an answer—or, at least, peace-of-mind […]