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Talk to people who live abroad or who travel frequently, and youll hear the same thing: Americans are wimpy when it comes to mobile wireless commerce. “Security and privacy issues around mobile wallets are such a U.S-focus thing,” said Allan Carter, Captaris director of mobile wireless marketing. “Were such a paranoid culture.” The stats bear […]

Technology that can dispatch an ambulance to within 50 meters of the wireless phone from which a 911 call was made has commercial enterprises quivering with anticipation and privacy advocates quaking in their boots. In theory, on Oct. 1, wireless operators will begin the slow rollout of network- and handset-based Automatic Location Identification services under […]

Small form-factor wireless phones and personal digital assistants have pushed users about as far as they can go. Typing commands on a dial pad or using a mini-stylus to navigate a shrunken computer screen is appealing to only so many people. Users are fed up and want their voices heard — literally. Many industry executives […]

Industry onlookers are losing hope for the resurgence of a key fixed broadband wireless technology that was expected to serve a big market for high-speed Internet access. With leading service providers Teligent and Winstar Communications in bankruptcy, some experts believe the most likely future use of the high-frequency radio waves they control will be for […]

An industry standards group has voted to use Intels next-generation input/output technology as the basis for its next serial interconnect — promising computer users that future PCs will be able to handle oodles of bandwidth. The forthcoming standard from the group, the Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group, represents the third major overhaul of PCI […]

The worlds leading supplier of key optical components believes it will be two years before the biggest all-optical switches are widely deployed, but the market remains strong for switching light waves on smaller systems. OMM, which makes subsystems for optical cross-connects, has stopped manufacturing its biggest all-optical switching port because it sees no market for […]

If bandwidth is increasingly becoming a commodity, does any company really want to pay for more than it uses? To give service providers and enterprise customers a way to price usage down to the click, HighDeal Inc., of Redwood Shores, Calif., launched a detailed set of pricing and billing software. With HighDeal Software Suite, enterprises […]

Cisco Grabs VPN Startup Slowdown or no slowdown, Cisco Systems has acquired yet another networking firm. Last month, Cisco bought Allegro Systems, a 39-employee startup that develops virtual private network acceleration technologies, for about $181 million in stock. Allegros system is designed to speed up VPN connections over high-bandwidth networks. Intel Mobilizes Feeling competitive heat […]

Did Microsoft lie? The answer depends on whether you side with the wife or the husband in the age-old domestic dispute about “lies of omission”: Do you believe that failing to reveal crucial details is a technically defensible strategy, or an out-and-out prevarication? The key question, though, is not which side you or I take, […]

The uneasy song and dance is already familiar. Nearly all of the IT companies I meet with these days start their pitches with earnest explanations of how their products or services save customers money. The phrases “in this tough economy” or “as IT budgets get slashed” usually show up on the first or second PowerPoint […]