Alex Goldman

“I came to Kineto six months ago,” says Steve Shaw, director of marketing for Milpitas, Calif.-based Kineto Wireless. “What I saw was a company pulling together a standard for disruptive technologies that would all work together.” Shaw’s talking about several tech trends that could prove truly disruptive to the ISP hierarchy, perhaps giving the little […]

“Oxford Development is a big player in real estate in the state of Pennsylvania and in Pittsburgh,” explains Pittsburgh-based Telerama CEO and founder Doug Luce. “It was a real coup to have them approach us and ask us to bring Wi-Fi into One Oxford Center.” Luce says that Oxford had heard of Telerama because of […]

We’re talking to Stephen Cobb, Chief Security Executive (CSE) of Salt Lake City, Utah-based hotel Internet specialist STSN at the Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo in San Jose. He has been interviewing large corporate customers about what they expect from their hotel ISP. Demands vary by business sector and size of company. “A large financial […]

Nigel Ballard, Wi-Fi guru on his Web site and wireless director for Matrix Networks of Portland Oregon, had a nuanced message for attendees at ISPCON. Drawing on his experience with the WiMAX Forum, he described his hopes for a technology that he feels can solve the well-known flaws in Wi-Fi. Ballard admitted that the standards […]

Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth College is well-known in wireless circles for being one of the first colleges to embrace Wi-Fi technology. Recently, the college went through a network upgrade. The original network, says Brad Noblet, Dartmouth director of technical services, cost $1.2 million. That covered 200 access points and the wiring they required. “Now we want […]

Bernard Herscovich, President and CEO of Reston, Va.-based BelAir Networks, said that the traditional wireless Internet architecture will eliminate all of the advantages of WiMax in urban settings. Herscovich described the standard outdoor wireless Internet architecture as the “big stick” approach: find a tall tower or pole, and put your antenna on it. This approach […]

After a pre-conference of tutorials and in-depth security sessions, the conference’s day one began with an address by Aris Melissaratos, secretary of business and economic development for the State of Maryland, who congratulated attendees on helping network people, creating jobs and business opportunities around the world (although most attendees were from the U.S. and Canada, […]

We heard Francis McInerney, co-author of Futurewealth (see our review of the book here) and venture capitalist with North River Ventures, speak at the Stupidnet conference, where we also picked up a copy of the book. A few months later, having read the book, we called him to see what he might predict for the […]

Dave Thayne, founder and president of Heritage Internet Services Inc. of Bluffdale, Utah, near Salt Lake City, is building what promises to be the biggest Wi-Fi Internet access network in the country, a series of massive hotzones that will cover all the significant population centers in the five states he’s targeting. Did we mention this […]

Every Wednesday morning at 10 AM EST, Jim Sutton turns his home in the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains into an IP radio station, broadcasting the Wireless Tech Radio show over the Internet. The show’s technical gravitas is leavened by the presence of co-hosts Steve Stroh, Editor of Redmond, Wash.-based FOCUS On Broadband […]

Founded in 1998, Salt Lake City, Utah-based STSN is a veteran in a new business: providing Internet services to business travelers. The company’s business strategy is described in the companion article, ISP Profile: STSN. This article is about a growing and fascinating area of STSN’s business: hotspots. The hotspots that STSN installs in hotels and […]

On January 20, 2004, Nomadix announced a patent covering a key element of any public access point. The patent covers “redirection to a portal for any user regardless of their settings.” Although this is not the sort of blanket patent that has threatened to destroy other Internet industries, it is still somewhat broad. The patent […]