Adam Stone

When we first talked to SiriCOMM in 2002, the company was angling for a niche, rolling out Wi-Fi hotspots at truck stops nationwide. Two and a half years later, the company has shown that Wi-Fi success can be found in the least likely of places. Through a deal with Pilot Travel Centers, the company has […]

Campuses all around the world are rigged out with Wi-Fi these days. That’s good news for visiting professors, who ought to be able to find a free desk, plug in, and start working. Trouble is, these campus networks want authentication. That means the visiting professor has to find someone with network permissions access, register as […]

To understand the solution, you first have to understand the problem. In this case the solution comes from GigaBeam, a Herndon, Va. firm claiming to offer a fast and cost-efficient wireless “alternative to fiber.” The problem lies in the nature of Wi-Fi, which is inherently slower than fiber, and which is hindered by issues of […]

Rich Tanksley has been overtaken by circumstances—in a good way. As director of business development at 3rd Wave in Atlanta, he has helped steer the firm on a course set by the local market, a course that has brought the hotspot business model to the forefront of the company’s efforts. With the widespread deployment of […]

If you are going to be a really malicious technology, you ought you have a cool name, right? So that’s one point in favor of the “evil twin,” the latest wireless attack strategy to get the attention of analysts and security vendors alike. The threat is hardly at crisis levels today. However, vendors and analysts […]

Doug Bonestroo doesn’t think of it as selling Wi-Fi. He is selling connectivity, in all its forms and facets. “Because wireless started growing so quickly, we decided to develop a complete local and global access solution,” said Bonestroo, the CEO of RemotePipes. Corporate clients don’t want to have to choose their means of Internet access, […]

Wireless telecommunications passed a milestone of sorts this fall, with spending on wireless outpacing wired solutions for the first time, according to a study from TNS Telecoms. While the study did not address Wi-Fi directly, its authors say the wireless-spending numbers could have positive implications for the world of WLAN. “As the predominance of wireless […]

As more cities and wireless operators roll out urban Wi-Fi connectivity, security vendors are stepping forward to meet what some say could be significant vulnerabilities within this emerging wireless business model. Some analysts see the deployment of large-scale outdoor WLAN as a powerful business opportunity. Blanket downtown in Wi-Fi, the logic goes, and consumers will […]

The CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2004 conference is always a hotbed of wireless news and that includes Wi-Fi. The show held October 25 to 27 in San Francisco was no exception. The most active topic this year was wireless mesh networks, especially in large-scale outdoor settings. For the lowdown on this and other developments […]

The future was supposed to have flying bubble cars. That’s what they promised us, and frankly we are pretty disappointed. Nonetheless, “talking” cars are a close second, and they may be here sooner than we think. We don’t mean cars that talk to drivers (“a door is ajar…”) but rather cars that talk to their […]

We’ve told this story in a dozen variations: The entrepreneur who envisions a new use for Wi-Fi, a moneymaker sure to tap into the demands of a previously unrecognized audience. Latte sippers. Boaters. RV drivers. Ready for one more? Let’s try drive-through Wi-Fi. The pitch goes like this. Salespeople only make money when they are […]

Ah, the cruising life. Beachesbuffetsbroadband? Those who vacation on the big boats increasingly are finding themselves able to access the Internet from stem to stern, thanks to Wi-Fi deployments rigged with signal backhaul through satellite connections. Who needs Wi-Fi on vacation? You’d be surprised. “You come out of Grand Cayman, you just did ‘Stingray City.’ […]