Gerry Blackwell

The sixth in our series on WiMAX Around the Globe, this article looks at WiMAX in Latin America and the Caribbean. Links to other articles in the series are at right and below. Like other regions marked by relatively undeveloped economies, Latin America and the Caribbean basin could be a bonanza for WiMAX. If regulators push ahead […]

Something interesting is happening to telework. What was once a grassroots movement and a business strategy is turning into an industry – and much of the focus is on small businesses. Purveyors of enabling technologies, such Avaya, which makes IP-based office phone systems that let employees communicate from anywhere as if they were in the […]

The fifth in our series on WiMAX Around the Globe, this article looks at WiMAX in the Asia-Pacific region. Links to the other stories are at right and below. The Asia-Pacific region (APAC) may be the laboratory and proving ground for WiMAX, but so far the results are a tad disappointing. Despite strong government mandates […]

In the fourth installment of our series on WiMAX around the globe, we look at the potential WiMAX has in the Middle East and Africa. Making generalizations about “the MEA market”—the Middle East and Africa—is clearly fraught with peril, no more so than when discussing WiMAX in the region. But we must be brave. Notwithstanding Sarah […]

In the third installment of our series on WiMAX around the globe, we look at the unique market conditions WiMAX faces in Eastern Europe. WiMAX has, arguably, experienced a failure to launch in developed economies. We saw this in the first two installments of this multi-part series on WiMAX around the world when looking at […]

Meet Selina Lo, Wi-Fi billionaire. Okay, we don’t actually know where Lo ranks on the list of the world’s richest people, but her bio at the Ruckus Wireless Website—Lo is the company’s president and CEO—says she sold the first entrepreneurial venture she was involved in, Alteon WebSystems, for $7.8 billion, to Nortel. Now Lo is […]

Will WiMAX become an orphan technology? Has the big push from 3G in the last two years and the prospect of 4G pushed WiMAX to the margins? As we saw in the first installment of this multi-part series, which covered the UK and Ireland, WiMAX is indeed in a difficult position, at least in the […]

The launch of Clearwire’s venture, Clear (formerly Sprint’s Xohm), in the United States cities of Baltimore, MD and Portland, OR, and the growing pre-buzz around so-called “4G” mobile have helped stoke (or in some cases revive) interest in Wi-Fi’s municipal area big brother,. But as we’ll see in this multi-part series on WiMAX around the world, […]

David Fraser think he knows the shape of things to come in the Wi-Fi industry, and he’s excited about it.   Fraser, a Scotsman transplanted to sunny California, has a unique perspective. He’s the CEO of Devicescape, which makes embedded Wi-Fi software that simplifies and automates connecting to a Wi-Fi network—any Wi-Fi network.   Devicescape’s […]

Hallelujah. A new day is dawning in mobile communications. With the September launch in Baltimore of Xohm (now called “Clear”), the WiMAX-powered mobile broadband wireless service from Sprint and Clearwire, the 4G era has, unofficially at least, begun. What will it mean for enterprise IT and telecom managers–beyond higher mobile wireless data speeds? It depends […]

WFT-1 Wi-Fi Component Tunerwww.sangean.comPrice: $349Pros: Works as Internet radio, FM tuner, media player; sleek design fits with standard audio components; 11,000+ pre-programmed Internet radio stationsCons: Won’t play high-bit rate audio files; no FM seek function With Wi-Fi-enabled Internet radios growing in popularity, it was only a matter of time before some enterprising manufacturer figured out […]

Sanyo R227 Internet Radious.sanyo.com/home.cfmPrice: about $200Pros: Looks good; sounds good; works as Internet radio, FM tuner, media player; thousands of pre-programmed Internet radio stationsCons: Media player functions difficult to set up; weak user interface   It was bound to happen. The first major Japanese electronics manufacturer has jumped into the increasingly crowded market for Wi-Fi-based […]