Adam Stone

Are terrorist operatives targeting Montana’s Helena Regional Airport ? Maybe not, but airport authorities still must conform to all the same post -9/11 rules and regulations as every other aviation hub. Now the Helena Regional Airport Authority (HRAA) is turning to Wi-Fi for help to make sure their facility is locked up tight. “When you […]

With thousands of acres of California engulfed in flames in late October 2003, helicopter pilots were doing all they could, taking detailed readings of the fire’s position in the hope of guiding firefighters in their efforts. Trouble was, the readings had to be recorded on disc and then delivered by hand to stations on the […]

Recent layoffs in the Wi-Fi industry ought not be cause for alarm, according to analysts and vendors. While the firings may seem severe, they say, this is the normal course of events in an emerging sector. “There are quite a few players out there right now in the Wi-Fi space and what we are seeing […]

In the old days it was relatively easy to control IT. Employees almost never installed their own mainframes, after all. Today it’s different. Anyone can plug in a Wi-Fi solution, with our without the IT shop knowing anything about it. That threat is pushing CTOs to implement wireless LANs on the fly, sometimes without adequate […]

Others might be giving it away for free today, but Barry Shrier is going to charge you up front for your Wi-Fi infrastructure. And, he says, you are going to thank him for it. Shrier heads up Liberty Europe, a public hotspot service provider with offices in northern and southern England. While some such firms […]

Most in the technology world view the evolving 802.11 standards as a good thing. With each new iteration the Wi-Fi community gets better speeds and/or better security. But as with all things technological, each step forward comes with a price that is more than merely financial. There’s always questions (such as, did it make sense […]

The pundits keep saying that information on a Wi-Fi network cannot be 100 percent secure. But what if it has to be? That’s the question that was bothering Pat Phelps, a police officer and IT specialist in the Syracuse, N.Y. police department, as he moved to bring the department toward a wireless capability. “The big […]

The vacation pictures are stored on the digital camera. Want to e-mail them to Aunt Sally? You’ll need to put them on the computer. Now you want to show those same pics to the neighbors on a big screen? You’ll need to transfer them to the TV. You can spend an hour tangled in cables […]

It’s been said that the promise of Wi-Fi will only be fulfilled when vendors start rolling out the applications that make the technology worth using. E-mail in a coffee shop is nicebut isn’t there something more? Slowly but surely, that ‘something more’ is coming to market. Take for instance the EasySwipe Wi-Fi based credit card […]

At wireless aggregator GRIC, Director of Product Management Lumin Yen faces an ongoing problem, one that has dogged the steps of aggregators and carriers alike as they seek to expand their positions in the Wi-Fi market. "There are a lot of technology differences, there are a lot of billing-model differences," Yen says. It’s like this. […]

Sean O’Mahony is not making a profit yet, and he is frankly amazed that anyone would expect him to. Look at cellular, he says. That technology was on the streets for almost a decade before anybody made any money. So why should things be any different with hotspots? As president and CEO of Canadian hotspot […]

A good day is when you have the right market, the right technology, and a partner with the muscle and the know-how to help bring the two together. Alan Kobran, the would-be king of the wireless recreational vehicle (RV) park, is having a very good day. First there’s the market, namely the drivers and passengers […]