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Douglas Hill, senior vice president of communications at Malibu Networks, predicts this is the year wireless broadband that doesnt require line of sight will really take off. “I think that basically were in a new era here,” Hill says. “I think in 2001 youre going to see Malibu and other new companies put out a […]

In South Carolina, a small telephone cooperative is leapfrogging the digital divide with fixed wireless broadband. In Uruguay, high-speed data are arriving in the capital of Montevideo without the costly infrastructure of underground fiber. In South Korea, more than 10,000 customers in densely populated cities get their Internet through wireless broadband networks. In lands that […]

If handheld and mobile devices are to truly meet the needs of users, the development and support of wireless standards becomes a key issue. One such standard, Bluetooth, promises that users will be able to collect information seamlessly on their Palms and other handheld devices. “Bluetooth is scarce today. But, at the recent Consumer Electronics […]

The Toxic Avenger might have ended up just another cult classic if new streaming video technology from Kanakaris Wireless hadnt made it possible to watch the film on the PocketPC. The company claims to be the first to stream a full-length film wirelessly. Its catalog also includes James Dean: Race with Destiny and Bruce Lee […]

During the recent mobile insights conference in Phoenix, I participated in an ad hoc WLAN, and the experience forcefully drove home the utility and advantages of a wireless LAN. Symbol Technologies set up three of its 802.11b-based WLAN access points in the main conference room and handed out Symbol wireless PC Cards to more than […]

The four horsemen of The New Economy have ridden into a ditch. A year ago, the rule of thumb was that if you were selling a Web solution it would include a Sun server, EMC storage, Cisco routers and switches, and an Oracle database with related applications. Of the four, Oracle is probably in the […]

Im pretty fed up with what passes for discourse in the IT industry these days. Most “news” seems to come from the Web Economy Bulls**t Generator (http://dack.com/web/bulls**t.html)– fill in the asterisks. Here are a couple of recent examples, with venerable cautions interspersed from “If,” by poet Rudyard Kipling. Microsofts Jim Allchin tells Bloomberg News that […]

DeWitt Zips Over To Zaplet CIO Job Dante Dewitt has joined Zaplet Inc., of Redwood Shores, Calif., as CIO. DeWitt will spearhead IT strategy and operations at Zaplet, which provides enterprise collaborative applications delivered via e-mail or Internet browser. Prior to joining Zaplet, DeWitt served as CIO of Equinix Inc., a vendor that creates and […]

Red Hat Grows Red Hat, a leading Linux distributor, last week acquired Planning Technologies Inc., an Atlanta infrastructure consulting service, for $47 million. PTI employs 200 engineers and consultants to advise AT&T, BellSouth, Delta Air Lines and Home Depot on building and managing their networks. Red Hat provides services for Linux-based infrastructures, noted Red Hat […]

A startups plans to market a new cooler-running high-density server is drawing heat from Compaq Computer Corp., which claims that the company is using trade secrets illegally obtained from ex-Compaq workers to “jump-start” the effort. In particular, Compaq alleges in a lawsuit filed late last month that executives working on its high-density server, code-named Ice, […]