Carol Ellison

If not for politics and broadband, Ben Gould and Ron Sege might not have much in common. As chief marketing officer for DynamicCity, Gould sells fiber to the premises, or FTTP, solutions. As CEO of Tropos Networks, Sege delivers metro-scale broadband solutions wirelessly over mesh networks. In some ways these are competing technologies. In other […]

The number of wireless mobile phone subscribers in the United States topped 180.5 million last year, up 21.7 million from the year before. Within that number, a growing percentage of users are turning to their mobile phones at home and at work as a replacement for desktop phones. With those customers in mind, Spotwave Wireless […]

Mobile professionals increasingly rely on mobile devices to do business. For those who are often on the road, they have become the primary connection to customers, suppliers and back to the corporate office. But that connection has been complicated by the fact that cell phones lack the flexible features—like multiparty conferencing and abbreviated extension dialing—that […]

Moments after the tsunami struck the shores of Sri Lanka in December, the Tidal Wave Rescue Center launched an effort to locate as many victims as possible through its cell phones. The technology that was used was helpful but not exact. The center sent text messages to each of the 10,252 international roaming phones in […]

Youve read all about mobile content. Its the hottest thing in mobile and wireless right now. And whats hottest about it is streaming video. Well, its about to get a lot hotter, and whats setting it afire is the demand for … ahem, let us gently describe it as adult content. A recent report from […]

Ive seen the future of mobile advertising. Its in the back of taxi cabs cruising the streets in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and, if fortune smiles upon Corey Gottlieb, soon to be New York. Gottlieb is CEO of a company called Interactive Taxi. It operates from an office currently stacked with EvDO (Evolution Data Optimized) […]

This week Im turning this space over to the many readers who raised their virtual voices to me in e-mail regarding the ongoing battle over municipal Wi-Fi. Bills similar to one passed last year in Pennsylvania, which cloud the future of municipal wireless, are now pending in a number of states including Indiana, Ohio and […]

American consumers face no shortage of mobile technologies, but theyre still a long way from the level of service enjoyed by consumers in many other countries. “Youre more likely to get bb in Korea or parts of China than you are in the United States,” said Dan Scheinman, senior vice president of corporate development at […]

Evil Twin, the phishing scheme that threatens users of Wi-Fi hot spots, has been well-known in the industry for as long as two years, according to the chairman of the Wi-Fi Alliances public access committee. Evil Twins target is the Universal Authentication Method, or UAM, the basic browser-based authentication presentation screen you see at most […]

Advocates of Big Broadband took their case against municipal Wi-Fi public on Thursday with a new report from the New Millennium Research Council. Six researchers and spokespeople from outside research organizations, all of whom contributed to the 40-page report, outlined why they think municipal Wi-Fi is a sorry idea in an hour-long conference call with […]

ParkerVision Inc., of Jacksonville, Fla., this month announced a new line of efficient, high-performance, low-cost wireless chips. The new design extends the companys patented digital radio frequency transceiver technology called D2D (Direct2Data) to power amplifiers, the devices that boost the power of RF signals so that they reach their intended destination. RF amplifiers are used […]

If you thought the debate over municipal broadband and its attendant Wi-Fi services ended with the passage of House Bill 30 in Pennsylvania late last year, think again. Not only does it rage on, but new players are entering the fray even as Philadelphias wireless rollout, the highest-profile project in the fracas, is moving toward […]