Mobile and Wireless Technology - News, Trends and Analysis

Learning How to Share

eWeek Editors | January 29, 2001

Formats compete for optimal music delivery solution

Marked Music

eWeek Editors | January 29, 2001

Watermarking may hold key to sharing copyrighted material

On the Record

Hilary Rosen | January 29, 2001

The head of the RIAA tells why 2000 was a watershed year for online music

Pandoras Playlist

eWeek Editors | January 22, 2001

This month, SoundScan released year-end figures showing album sales increased 4 percent in 2000 from the previous year, to an all-time high of 785.1 million units.

Palm Loses Tech Pilot

eWeek Editors | January 22, 2001

Bill Maggs, Palm's chief technology officer, unexpectedly resigned last week - less than a year after he joined the company.

Rural Locations Out of Wireless Loop

Carmen Nobel | January 22, 2001

Only a handful of wireless enterprises receive federal help to expand.

Are Devices Better Dead Than Infrared?

Jason Brooks | January 22, 2001

Recently, while navigating my way through the exhibit halls at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I caught sight of a large banner for the Infrared Data Association pavilion.

Digital Interference

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld | January 22, 2001

In this day of high-speed, two-way, digital communications, the radio has to be considered a pre-Cambrian device.

Fast-As-Cash Wireless

eWeek Editors | January 22, 2001

Someday, walking into a store or fast-food spot may be like stepping into an invisible Web of networks, each communicating with a number of devices for a variety of purposes.

Geekspeak: January 22, 2001

Peter Coffee | January 22, 2001

Talk About 'Backward Compatibility'

Putting CDMA wireless access into a Type 2 PC Card, Sierra's Wireless AirCard 510 modem, available this month, gives portable-PC users 14.4K-bps bandwidth (up to 56K bps with compression) via the Sprint PCS Group network.