Eric Griffith

Xybernaut Solutions of Fairfax, Va., a company well known in the circles of “wearable computers” today brought Wi-Fi into that mix with its ServicePoint product. But this “mini-server” piece of hardware is meant to be much more than an on-your-belt access point. The company intends the $1995 (base price) unit to be a jack of […]

Senforce Technologies of Orem, Utah, has begun shipping its Enterprise Mobility Security Manager 2.0 (EMSM), a location-aware, centrally-managed, policy-enforcing system it first alluded to in May of this year. Kip Meacham, director of Technical Marketing and Communications at Senforce, says what his company does is what research firm IDC calls policy enforced client security (PECS). […]

Announced this past summer at the SuperComm tradeshow, ADC Telecommunications’ LoopStar is a “span-powered” Wi-Fi system — meaning, access points on the network edge (at the hotspot) receive the electrical power they need over the digital subscriber line (DSL) connection itself. In addition, they use that DSL for backhaul. Because of this, hotspot deployment to […]

Buffalo Technology, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan’s MELCO Inc., today announced that it is the first company to ship an external 802.11g network adapter utilizing a Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 interface. The AirStation 54Mbps Wireless USB Adapter-g (model WLI-USB-G54) will cost an estimated $99 at retail and has a 2 year warranty. While 802.11g […]

This week iPass , which provides services to enterprise end-users working remotely, announced its iPass Wi-Fi Roaming Services, a program for getting carriers and wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) to use the iPass virtual network as its own. It enables carriers to have access to our footprint and to leverage our core competency,” says iPass […]

When the Centrino Mobile brand for laptops — those with a Pentium-M chip coupled with embedded Wi-Fi for connectivity — shipped in March of 2003, Intel kicked it off with a multi-million dollar advertising blitz meant to get the word out that wireless had arrived. Now comes part two. Sean Connolly, Intel’s world wide advertising […]

Interlink Networks of Ann Arbor, Mich., this week announced an embedded software solution called Padlock that can apply enterprise-class 802.1X standards to more humble wireless LANs. Padlock will be offered for sale to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) of home and SOHO WLAN products, to be incorporated into their products. The […]

HP today launched its Smart Office initiative, a $750 million dollar program meant to empower small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) with technology from printing (HP’s specialty) on up. Part of that initiative is the Mobility Now program, which HP hopes it can use to bring wireless to small offices, particularly those lacking an IT […]

Mobile management software company AirPrism officially launched its products this week. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company is showing the AirPrism Mobility Management Suite (MMS) at DEMOmobile 2003 in La Jolla, Calif. The software is directed at mission-critical use of handhelds in businesses, according to Bob Vieraitis, vice president of marketing at AirPrism. Particularly in vertical […]

FireTide of Honolulu, Hawaii — formerly Landmark Networks — is in La Jolla, Calif., this week as one of the select few showing at the DEMOmobile 2003 conference. Their product: the HotPoint Wireless Mesh Router. This “radio agnostic” unit, the company’s first product since it launched this year, looks like a standard access point with […]

Network Instruments LLC (NI), a privately held company located in Minneapolis, Minn., this week announced the release of Observer 9.0, the latest edition of its network monitoring and protocol analyzing software. It’s the first to have a 4 gigabyte (GB) memory buffer for capturing network information. Douglas Smith, president of NI, calls the release a […]

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based WLAN infrastructure company AirFlow Networks this week announced its line of enterprise wireless products. The line-up consists of the AirServer 500 ($7,500), a centralized wireless controller for the data center that connects to the existing network via Ethernet; the AirSwitch 1200 ($8,750), which is analogous to WLAN switches like those from Trapeze or […]