Adam Stone

If it’s half desert, half mountains, spread out for miles in every direction and sorely in need of broadband, it must be… Arizona. The geographically diverse state just picked half a dozen primary contractors to deliver high-speed connectivity to its widely dispersed population. At WI-VOD (short for “Wireless Voice Over and Data”), a Virginia-based primary contractor, […]

Maybe too many cooks will get this stew finished a little bit sooner. The goal is fixed-mobile convergence, the merger of fixed and wireless networks into a single system. The end result would allow users to have just one phone number and one voicemail account. Diverse collaboratives around the world have been pushing to create […]

Move over, Zigbee and Z-Wave. A new contender has thrown its hat in the ring. With the market for home automation technologies expected to rise steadily in the coming years, Smarthome’s INSTEON Alliance already has lined up more than 300 partner companies who plan to develop wireless home control networking products using the INSTEON technology […]

Next time the paramedic comes rushing in, don’t be surprised to see a medical bag under one arm and a laptop under the other. Driven by the need for speed coupled with new regulatory pressure, ambulance-based Wi-Fi could be a thing of the not-too-distant future. Ambulance service provider American Medical Response (AMR) recently unveiled a […]

In the hotly contested hotel space, Wi-Fi vendors are looking beyond the lobby, bar and meeting rooms. They’re pitching full-building solutions as an alternative to costly high-speed rewiring jobs, and the idea is gaining traction. Take, for instance, PayKiosks Internet Terminals. Founded in 2000, the company stayed true to its name for a long time, […]

Funny how things change. The founders of LogiSense set up shop in 1995 as an Internet service provider, and in the course of their work they began to develop an internal system to meet the complex billing needs of an ISP operation. The billing software worked well, so well in fact that in 1999 they […]

As vice president and research director of wireless services at research firm Current Analysis, Eddie Hold logs more hotel time these days than he would like to admit. Like all savvy travelers, he’s got a peeve or two. “One of the irritating things about traveling is that occasionally you realize you need to print something […]

What’s the point of being wireless if you aren’t going to be mobile? Sure, you can sit in Starbucks with your laptop and call yourself a ‘mobile’ worker, but some in the Wi-Fi community are unrolling LANs that take mobility to a whole new level. Based in Wayne, Pa., Rajant has engineered a set of […]

The word of the week in the public access Wi-Fi world is management. Networks are deployed, or getting there. Users have the hang of it, and public awareness is reaching critical mass, at least among those most likely to make use of a wireless network. So what comes next? Managing it all. Operators increasingly are […]

With the deployment of Wi-Fi networks now a routine matter, attention has turned to network operation. Those who offer Wi-Fi services to end users are increasingly concerned about minimizing muss and fuss on the back end, which can erode their bottom lines if left unchecked. But what about operating a network that you don’t want […]

If all goes as planned, NASA this summer will take an historic step, as the space shuttle program boldly goes where no Wi-Fi has gone before. At the anticipated July lift-off of the Space Shuttle Discovery, journalists on the ground will be able to submit stories in real time, thanks to an extensive wireless mesh […]

How do you build a technology market? One piece at a time. Case in point: PrinterOn Corporation. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, the company delivers a range of wireless-printing products and services. Most recently its efforts have included a push to bring Wi-Fi printing into the hospitality arena. The company says the move is a natural next step. […]