Gerry Blackwell

Opportunity Knocking Singapore Heats Up Hotzone Wars Yet Another Wireless Frequency Opportunity Knocking If they don’t act quickly, mobile operators may miss a chance to get a critical head start in the burgeoning public Wireless LAN market, says high-tech market research firm In-Stat/MDR of Scottsdale, Ariz. In-Stat argues that offering WLAN services today will enable […]

Many small and even not so small businesses looking at installing 802.11 wireless local area networks imagine they can do it all themselves. Hey, it’s easy. Just go down to Circuit City and pick up what you need, right? The truth is, sometimes it is easy, and they can do it themselves, but most find […]

Three years ago, flamboyant Canadian AIDS activist Richard Hollingsworth had a novel idea. He wanted to invite people into his home, virtually speaking, to see how an AIDS patient lived and functioned with his family. Hollingsworth’s idea was to set up a kind of reality TV website with multiple streaming video feeds from his home. […]

The lush Hawaiian Island of Maui is one of the great tourist destinations of the world, attracting more than two million visitors a year. Tourism, needless to say, is the island’s primary industry, and scores of hotels and resorts line its sun-drenched beaches. Some of those resorts will soon be offering guests a unique broadband […]

Pioneering companies in North America have discovered that the hotel WLAN service market is a tough row to hoe. Finding a business model that works and convincing hoteliers to buy in have not been easy. Which is why San Jose, CA-based Consilnet decided not to even bother with the North American market for now. Instead, […]

Seamless roaming between 802.11 WLAN hotspots and mobile wireless network cells is one of those ideas that has a very high cool factor. For example, imagine a situations in which you are downloading your e-mail to a laptop or handheld at a Wi-Fi hotspot, for example, and are suddenly called away. You wouldn’t want to […]

When the U.S. national team beat favored Portugal 3-2 in elimination round play at the FIFA World Cup on June 5, U.S. fans and players were naturally ecstatic. The players, no less than their fans, wanted the euphoria to last. So back at the team hotel in Seoul, Korea, many logged on to the Net […]

If you’re a lousy conference speaker, don’t be surprised if all you see of audiences in the future is their bowed heads, says WLAN consultant and frequent conference speaker Alan Reiter. And no, they won’t be praying. Bored audiences will tune you out and check e-mail on their laptops or handhelds using the room’s Wi-Fi […]

Marty Hale is a man with a broadband plan for the great state of Texas. He certainly has his work cut out for him. Hale, co-founder and former CEO of Minnetonka, MN-based ISP Net Lifestyles, wants to use government money — what remains of the $1.5 billion Texas Telecommunication Infrastructure Fund (TIF) established in 1995 […]

New Alvarion Gear Surf’s Up in the Rocky Mountains Wi-Fi to Overtake MMDS in the U.S. New Alvarion Gear Alvarion Ltd. recently launched two products of interest to wireless Internet service providers (WISPs), the 5.8GHz BreezeNET DS.5800 bridging system and the Cell Extender (CX) for the BreezeACCESS product line. With the DS.5800 bridge, Alvarion is […]

Yet another hotspot hotshot has popped up with a plan to populate the world with Wi-Fi access points. Joltage of New York City, endorsed (and invested in) recently by cyber guru Nicholas Negroponte, head of the MIT Media Lab, has a plan that is interesting and innovative to say the least. Joltage (a brand name […]

The hotspot market continues to be hot, hot, hot. Well, hot as in everybody’s talking about it. If you’re an ISP operator desperate to get in the air, WiFi Metro Inc. of San Francisco is another company worth checking out. Like every other player, WiFi Metro is trying to invent a business model that will […]