Adam Stone

Building an urban Wi-Fi network? Might as well keep it all in the family. Recently, the developers of a vast planned community in Texas brought in technology consultancy Perot Systems to help rig up the area for free public wireless access. The connection? Both Perot Systems and Hillwood Development are chaired by Ross Perot Jr. […]

Gerald Taylor wants to take it to the next level. Since the early 1990s, his ISP has successfully attracted, first, dial-up customers, and then DSL subscribers. Now he is teaming with Nortel Networks to establish the next logical beachhead, a WiMax network. The twist? Heading up an ISP is something of a secondary line of […]

You’ve paid for the flat screen, the DVD player and the upscale gaming system. The visuals are great — but the cables definitely detract, cluttering the landscape as they snake across the floor. What’s the best remedy for unsightly wires? Wireless technology, of course. That’s the logic driving Radiospire, whose UniCast TX is due out […]

Service provider Cheetah Wireless Technologies announced recently that it would team with BelAir Networks to launch a broadband mesh network along the Las Vegas Strip, bringing high-speed Wi-Fi into some of the country’s largest hotels and casinos. (They’ll do the same in Primm, Nevada.) Given all the urban wireless deployments these days, this might have […]

If you don’t trust your cell phone connection to last long enough to let you check your messages at home, are you going to trust that connection when someone’s life is on the line? Not likely, says Kirk Moir, president and CEO of In Motion Technology. The company recently ran a test project in Richmond, […]

Overnight delivery companies have for several years now relied on wireless technologies to help them track packages and manage logistics — and now the upgrades have begun, with more sophisticated wireless mechanisms helping these companies become even more efficient. Case in point: worldwide carrier DHL, which is looking to bolster customer service with a seamless, […]

In the eternal struggle between build-it and buy-it, Dr. H. Dean Cubley has gone off the deep end. It’s all about the buying, and it’s a strategy that seems to working. As chairman and CEO of publicly-held ERF Wireless, Cubley has been busy buying up all the pieces he needs to deliver wireless connectivity to […]

Remember 10 minutes ago, when RFID was the state of the art in tagging and tracking inventory? John Stevens believes there is something better on the table now. Stevens — chair of the IEEE RuBee Working Group — says the low-cost, low-frequency RuBee standard already is driving intelligent, versatile tracking devices. Known in colorful IEEE […]

Around the port of Miami and its adjacent coastline, the government has arrayed a heap of technology to keep out the Bad Guys. Project Hawkeye detects threats by sea through a complex series of sensors including specialized radar, infrared detection and high-resolution optical tools. If anything so much as twitches, it gets noticed. But there […]

It’s not some aquatic anomaly. We’re talking football here, and a way to serve the fans more quickly and cheaply than before. Following an initial deployment in the spring, BelAir Networks this fall announced it had deployed wireless connectivity throughout Dolphin Stadium, home to the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and baseball’s Florida Marlins. In addition to […]

It’s been said that automated controls can do many things. Turn off your lights. Turn on your stereo. Open your garage door, of course. Precious few of these things have come to pass so far, as automated control technology struggles to get a toehold in the residential market. In the commercial market, however, it’s a […]

Why roll out Wi-Fi house-by-house when you can potentially sell wireless service into whole neighborhoods at a time? That’s the premise behind a new deal between telecom behemoth BellSouth and wireless services provider Wavelength. As BellSouth moves into planned communities in the southeast, Wavelength will tag along with a scheme to deliver Wi-Fi into common […]