Wayne Rash

NEW YORK—Two companies here at Interop are announcing products that are aimed at making life easier for network managers. One, from Stampede, aims to ease the administrators workload, while the other, from Uplogix, seeks to make things easier for the support staff. Stampede Technologies is shipping its Application On-Demand client technology. This product streamlines Stampedes […]

To John Graves, wireless communications is a lot more than Verizon Wireless catchy “Can You Hear Me Now?” tag line. Its about emergency responders hearing one another when it counts. Graves, program director for the Government Emergency Telecommunications Service, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is one of the people trying to […]

WASHINGTON—The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs is reporting that an office computer reported stolen from a Unisys Corp. office in Virginia has been recovered, and a Washington, D.C., resident has been arrested in the case. According to a VA spokesperson, the arrest took place Sept. 13. Arrested in the […]

The CTIA show in Los Angeles gave eWEEK a chance to see the latest in wireless products, and to run across some interesting people. In some cases those people and the wireless products happened to be related. But that wasnt always the case. A keynote appearance by the Governor of California made some sense; after […]

LOS ANGELES—Cingular Wireless and Sprint Nextel are shipping new products aimed at business users. Cingulars offerings include two smart phones and a data card, while Sprint is introducing a new line of high-speed data cards for the enterprise market and an international phone. All of the new devices had their public debut at the CTIA […]

LOS ANGELES—One of the CTIAs “chief responsibilities as a trade association is to put the industry together when necessary.” Thats according to Chris Guttman-McCabe, vice president of regulatory affairs for the wireless association. /zimages/6/147136.jpg Guttman-McCabe, who spoke with eWEEK during the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show here Sept. 13, said one way the Washington-based […]

T-Mobile to Launch New BlackBerry T-Mobile USA will be the first wireless carrier to release the new BlackBerry Pearl. According to the announcement on Sept. 7 from T-Mobile, the new BlackBerry is “Ultra-Sleek.” Take a look at the photo we asked for and you can judge for yourself what this means in the world of […]

It has taken a year, but the federal government appears poised to appoint an overseer for U.S. cyber-security. Vallee Bunting, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, in Washington, said officials there are whittling down the list of candidates. Once the department decides on the best candidate, that person will be appointed by the […]

Wireless Services Gets $30M in Financing, Changes Name Showing once again that money will turn more heads than a pretty face, Wireless Services said on Aug. 29 that the company has landed a cool $30 million in financing and immediately changed its name to SinglePoint. SinglePoint is a mobile messaging and marketing company that delivers […]

Cingular Wireless has begun providing the BlackBerry Connect service to customers using Palms Treo 650 as of Aug. 30. The new service, which is designed for corporate customers with BlackBerry Enterprise Servers, uses a client available from Palm. According to Chris Hall, Cingulars director of product marketing for BlackBerry devices, the cost of the client […]

Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems are announcing an expanded partnership in which HPs Technical Services group will implement enterprise-class wireless installations based on Ciscos new 3750G wireless controllers and Unified Wireless Network Software 4.0. Applications supported by the new partnership include IT asset tracking, presence-based applications, voice, and intrusion detection and prevention. “Were extending the relationship […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance, acknowledging that the new 802.11n standard will be a year late for its initially planned March 2007 release, announced that the organization will begin certifying what it calls “pre-standard” products during the first half of 2007. The Wi-Fi Alliance consists of virtually every company on the planet that has anything to do […]