Naomi Graychase

Shopping for road warriors is a cinch, just so long as each gift passes three simple tests: will it make life on the road easier? Will it make life on the road more fun? And will it save time or money — or both — when traveling? To make sure the traveler in your life […]

This year, Santa’s sack could be full of wireless gifts that’ll make life on the home front simpler, safer, and best of all, lots more fun. To save you precious December shopping hours, we’ve made a list—and checked it twice—of the best home-use Wi-Fi gifts for giving (or receiving) this holiday season. Increase Speed/Distance The […]

WavMax Broadband, a wireless broadband service provider headquartered in Littleton, Colorado, has begun work on what it calls “one of the largest high capacity wireless backhaul projects in the United States.” As part of its plan to bring high-speed wireless to businesses (and some homes) in the western U.S., the company has deployed DragonWave‘s AirPair […]

The U.S. Air Force is adding a new weapon at more than 50 bases nationwide. Currently, 65 bases have replaced their old pen-and-paper flight-line maintenance systems with Wi-Fi, and another 20-25 bases are scheduled for WLAN deployments in the next 18 months. Telos, a Virginia-based company that offers secure and managed enterprise solutions to clients—which, […]

Woods Hole, Massachusetts is no ordinary Cape Cod town. In addition to the typical influx of tourists during the summer months, many of whom come to visit the National Marine Fisheries aquarium (said to be the oldest in the country), to check out the first Buckminster Fuller Geodesic dome, or to board the ferry to […]

In professional racing circles, a few seconds can mean the difference between first—and everyone else. Among the new weapons in the arsenals of pit crews and drivers are wireless mesh technologies, including Motorola’s wireless digital voice two-way radio gear and Motodrive architecture, which helped the GM Corvette Racing Team place both first and second in […]

Last month, in a special ceremony attended by HUD (Housing and Urban Development) officials, state senators and other local elected officials, members of the Coeur d’Alene tribe in Idaho celebrated the grand opening of the tribe’s new community technology center (CTC). The CTC, which makes broadband access and 40 computers available to members of the […]

Things have suddenly gotten very busy at Lumin Innovative Products in Boulder, Colorado. On July 15th, 18 months after the company formed around co-founder Ben Adams’s concept for solar-powered Wi-Fi networks, Lumin deployed its first access points at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. Since that successful launch, the four-person staff has been deluged with […]

Just when you thought Americans couldn’t serve food any faster, a wireless POS (Point of Service) technology imported from Asia is poised to speed things up. The good news for waitstaff is that Reach POS from Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Wireless Logix Group will (in theory) reduce the amount of walking they do in any given […]

Wi-Fi Salon, a New York City start-up, is taking an aggressive, grassroots approach to the substantial—and as yet mostly unclaimed—NYC wireless market. With a strategy that mirrors nonprofit endeavors in all but one regard—the generation of revenue streams as a method of sustainability and scalability—Wi-Fi Salon intends to make New York the “Wi-Fi Capital of […]

For businesses looking for a simple, affordable way to add pay-per-use Wi-Fi to their menu of offerings, Whotspot (pronounced “wot-spot”) provides secure wireless Internet access along with a prepaid card system designed to make selling online minutes a cinch. Billed as “Whotspot in a Box,” the “Instant WiFi Hotspot Solution” costs $500. Clients include cafés, […]

SBC Communications has teamed up with the state government of Michigan to offer Wi-Fi access at rest areas, state parks, marinas, and welcome centers throughout the state. The pilot project, dubbed MiWiFi, was rolled out last September and includes ten locations throughout the state. Visitors to the Ludington State Park, New Buffalo Welcome Center, Coldwater […]