Adam Stone

Tired of running laptops up and down the airfield, the Illinois Air National Guard has taken the first step toward implementing wireless network capabilities. When completed, a campus-wide LAN will offer wireless service to the 126th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) located at Scott Air Force Base. “When they then get out on the flight lines […]

Our communications have followed us from office to home, from car to cafe. Won’t they ever leave us alone? Apparently not. Thanks to the wonders of wireless, vacationers increasingly are able to plug in while plying the pristine seas aboard all-the-comforts-of-home cruise ships. A chief player responsible for this development, Seattle-based SeaMobile, signed a deal […]

Forget about coffee shop hotspots and urban deployments. Think about Wi-Fi instead as the transmit mechanism for a VoIP-based, cellular-style phone service. Would that even work? Executives at Israeli company Trans Con Mobile (which currently lacks a Web site) say it can and it does. They say they’ve tested a prototype and demonstrated success. Founded […]

At William Beaumont Hospitals in Royal Oak, Michigan, Kimberly A. Bonzheim had a problem. Each time an alarm would go off, signaling a possible problem with a patient, the notification would go to a central telemetry station. Technicians would then page the nurse on duty, but the nurse might be busy or otherwise unable to […]

David Lonardo doesn’t like to rely on fear as his primary selling tool. But let’s face it: when your product is security, a healthy dose of consumer paranoia doesn’t exactly hurt. “You can show them how easy it is to listen to somebody who is using wireless,” Lonardo says. “You can show them that, and […]

Anyone can rig up Wi-Fi in your conference facility these days. But can they give you a live body to make sure it runs smoothly before, during and after the meeting? Chuck Vollmer can. As director of conference services for StayOnline, he is building a business model around the idea that, with Wi-Fi being cheap […]

We’ve got the club, the tee, the ball. There’s the flag, too, but just how far away? The distance to the hole: It’s a piece of information golfers covet. At the same time, golf course managers would love to know where their golf carts are at any given moments. The wireless gurus at GPS Industries […]

After promising fixed/mobile convergence for the past several years, the high-tech wizards have finally delivered. When you get home tonight, you will record your favorite TV shows, zap them into your telephone and take them with you wherever life may lead. Okay, maybe you won’t. But you can. The technology now exists in the commercial […]

What’s the point of metro Wi-Fi deployments? To bring wireless to everyone, says Anne-Marie Fowler, Principal at SF Metro Connect. And she means everyone. In its search for a citywide Wi-Fi provider, the City of San Francisco has narrowed to three potential candidates, including SF Metro Connect. Fowler’s group plays most heavily on the community […]

NextPhase Wireless is all about networking building to get laptops online. Based in Anaheim, California, the company aims to make a name for itself by using more than one way to deploy wireless networks quickly, whether it be with the help of Ethernet, fiber or even satellite. “It’s like having a Swiss Army knife,” says […]

Here’s what we say: size matters not. Okay, it was actually Yoda who said it. But the sentiment holds, even when talking about Wi-Fi gadgets and gizmos. Take, for instance, DeFacto Wireless Distribution, a two-year-old supplier and manufacturer of Wi-Fi equipment. With just 10 people on staff, this Texas company is making a name for […]

Coffee shop owners, hoteliers and others don’t just want to give away free Wi-Fi. They want to use that wireless connection to greet their customers with on-screen branding messages, advertising, in-store promotions and other communications. In short, they want to say howdy, and companies like Front Porch are here to make the howdy happen. Founded […]