Gerry Blackwell

Voice over Wi-Fi works, but it continues to present some interesting technological challenges. For example, what happens when a user is talking on a Wi-Fi phone and starts to move out of the coverage area provided by one access point into the coverage of another? If the user were transmitting only data over the network—a […]

Simon Property Group is not the first mall owner to install Wi-Fi access in its shopping center properties. Compared to some industry players, Simon isn’t even very far along in the process. It has so far installed wireless networks in just two of its malls, one in Burlington, Mass., another in suburban D.C. Senior vice […]

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup OnAir Entertainment Inc. has a slightly different take on the increasingly popular notion of delivering pay TV services over IP networks. OnAir is targeting wireless operators such as Wi-Fi hotspot providers, wireless access service providers, and enterprises operating wireless networks. It has a relatively inexpensive video-over-IP system it claims can deliver VHS-quality […]

How cool is this? If you have a Vonage SmartPhone account or a similar Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based soft phone service with another IP phone provider, you may now be able to turn not only your laptop but also your voice-capable Pocket PC into a portable Wi-Fi phone. The product in question is the free […]

It looks as if the evolution of voice over Wi-Fi will closely parallel the evolution of wired voice over IP, only in a compressed time frame. VoIP started with much scoffed at soft phones that Internet geeks played with but businesses avoided like the plague. That technology introduced a whole new vocabulary — latency, jitter, […]

The HomeSeries Net-Box from Axentra, a new kind of all-in-one home network “appliance”—a combination LAN/Web server and wireless cable/DSL router—is a good idea and the product has lots of impressive features, but we think Axentra might be a bit ahead of the curve in terms of what people actually want and will buy. The Net-Box […]

Plain ordinary Internet connectivity was the killer app for public access Wi-Fi, but now more and more companies are finding ways to use the technology for targeted, high-value business solutions. SiriCOMM, an application service provider (ASP) focused on the trucking industry, is a good case in point. The company was formed five years ago and […]

Alex Housley is a lot like other young high-tech entrepreneurs. The former dot-com wunderkind, who helped launch a successful e-commerce service in Britain when he was only 16, looked at the explosive growth in the Wi-Fi industry and thought, hey, how can I cash in? His response, though, was a little different from others who […]

Fore! GPS Industries, a somewhat unusual Wi-Fi company, is looking to score a hole in one with its innovative golf course management system that combines Wi-Fi and GPS (Global Positioning System) technologies. Golf legend and industry kingpin Greg Norman — the Great White Shark — thinks GPS Industries is on to something. Norman agreed to […]

A few years ago, fixed wireless access providers like WinStar and Teligent famously flopped after investing millions in Local Multipoint Distribution Services (LMDS) , AKA fixed wireless infrastructure in major population centers so they could offer high-speed network connectivity mainly to small and medium-size enterprises. Now TowerStream Corp., the first service provider member of the […]

Sporting events and venues have been going wireless using Wi-Fi for a few years, but the market appears to be heating up, at least in Cisco Systems’s patch. A premier supplier of Wi-Fi infrastructure equipment since its acquisition of Aironet Wireless four years ago, the networking giant has in recent months been part of no […]

Model: 206W Price: $300 You’re working late and the kids are at home with a babysitter. Don’t trust the sitter? No worries, you can check on them over the Web. Open your browser and surf to the address provided by the Axis Communications DNS service and take a look at the big (640×480-pixel) motion video […]