Alex Goldman

In our previous article, RFID Primer: Where the WLAN Hits the RFID Fan, we described what RFID technology is and what it can and cannot do. In this article, we continue our exploration of RFID technology by extrapolating that knowledge into actual deployments. We’ll look at where the money is, what people expect from the […]

Introduction Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Tech Center is a VAR and Systems Integration firm specializing in custom software solutions, WLAN designs and Security, Auto ID (Bar Code and RFID) and VoIP (Cisco) telephony technologies. The company does front-end and back-end systems, from wireless data collection at the edge back to the ERP and CRM databases […]

The companies that first started deploying Wi-Fi outdoors found to their chagrin that 802.11 is not designed for that. “Wi-Fi was not designed for the wide area,” said IP Wireless CEO Chris Gilbert in the Plenary CEO session of Jupitermedia’s Fall 2003 Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo. In the same session, Craig Barrett, president and […]

The Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo closed on Friday afternoon last week, after three days of exhibits filled to capacity, and four days of avidly-attended interactive conference sessions. Conference sessions featured the show’s regular day-long ISP Mini-Forum with appearances by Marlon Schafer, founder of rural WISP Odessa Office Equipment of Odessa, Wash.; Doug Luce, founder […]

Ken Swinehart, founder and president of Amigo.net, has been in the business for some time. His mountainside ISP, based in Alamosa, Colo. (pop. 8,000), had a rocky start. He parted ways with Rocky Mountain Internet (RMI) in 1997, getting the local business while RMI kept the backbone. The switchover, whose glitches are described in this […]

In North America, wherever you are, you’ve probably got a broadband option of some kind, whether it’s satellite, Wi-Fi, or wireline. But Wheat Wireless has found one niche that no other company is competing for: Broadband at sea. Wheat Wireless is part of Wheat International, named after the husband and wife team who founded the […]

It started out as a portal for people who live in their mobile homes. But now the business Jonathan Miller cofounded, Connectifi of Scottsdale, Ariz., is branching out, building a Wi-Fi and dialup ISP service for mobile retirees stretching from Texas to California. Miller’s partner is Jeffrey Black, with whom he also built InDigiNet. Miller […]

As far as WiFi goes, Nomadix is a pioneer: it has been in the wireless Internet business since 2000, when it received a patent for a “nomadic translator or router” that allowed mobile users to connect to the Internet regardless of the configuration of the laptop or computer. The device was called the Universal Subscriber […]

Washington, D.C.-based Cogent Communications Friday filed a restructuring plan with the SEC. The plan reduces the company’s debt significantly and lengthens the payment terms on the debt that remains. The company urgently needed to restructure the debt because it was had defaulted on covenants on the majority of the debt, which consists of equipment finance […]

BALTIMORE — At a two-hour marathon session at ISPCON, Voice-over-IP (VoIP) vendors on Thursday representing all stages of deployment concluded that logistics and politics are the biggest hurdles holding up widescale adoption, not technology or cost. But ISPs still remain skeptical about deploying the advanced voice service for its customers. A slew of reasons have […]

BALTIMORE — During three contentious spam-related sessions at the ISPCON conference Wednesday, each filled with debates and varied approaches to combatting spam, one point rang clear. Current methods to fight the rising volume of spam, such as blacklists and filters, are not working. ISPs and inboxes are being hit with a rapidly escalating amount of […]

BALTIMORE — Hans Peter Brondmo, a noted technology author and Digital Impact fellow, has announced a multi-year plan by the Network Advertising Initiative’s Email Service Provider Coalition (NAI ESPC) to change the architecture of e-mail in order to effectively block spam while protecting legitimate e-mail advertisers. “When we decided to address this problem, we had […]