Tim Scannell

BOSTON — “Excuse me, can I use your ‘risk mitigator’ to check my e-mail?” Okay, maybe you won’t hear your average executive asking that question anytime soon. But it would be an apt description coming from someone in the financial services industry who uses a garden-variety Blackberry for much more than just accessing e-mails and […]

Look before you leap. That’s the advice some wireless vendors are giving to companies that may be tempted to jump with both feet into higher-speed and higher-bandwidth 802.11n   technology. The latest wave of products based on the still evolving technology can deliver access speeds up to 30 times faster than most existing Wi-Fi networks. […]

As one of the developers of the original Java programming language and “Father of Java,” James Gosling is easily a cyber celebrity in the open systems community. Since creating Java and implementing its original compiler and virtual machine, the language has blossomed into an environment with a global install base of 5 million with more […]

A twenty-year-old technology could be set to become a worldwide standard for authentication. By one estimate, it already may be. That’s the thinking, at least, from network security researchers at MIT, who today launched a new effort to develop and expand Kerberos. The authentication protocol, developed in the 80s, already resides in one form or […]

BOSTON — What’s next for the Java development empire that Sun Microsystems built? On one hand, Java has a significant footprint worldwide and has the numbers to prove it: more than five billion Java-enabled devices, a developer base of six million, and an estimated 10 million downloads of the Java Standard Edition 6 development kit, […]

BOSTON — Online service juggernaut Google  and information-sharing Web sites like YouTube and FaceBook have revolutionized the way people interact in cyberspace and do business on the Net, right? Maybe. But, we are still years away from that information-rich and digitally-saturated land a lot of technorati are now calling Enterprise 2.0, which blends blogging, wikis […]

Since its founding in 1993, Ubiquity Software has pretty much lived up to its moniker of developing applications and services that are available anywhere and everywhere. In 1999, the company revamped its strategy to produce software based on the Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP. The technology was originally designed to be a framework for the […]

In the Wild West of the Internet boom days, venture capitalists were the high-rolling gamblers who swept into town and threw cash at even the riskiest scheme if there was a glimmer of a potential gold rush. Those days are gone, and so are many of the shoot-from-the-hip VCs. The investment environment is also a […]

Barry West, president of Sprint Nextel’s new 4G Broadband Business and the company’s CTO, joined Nextel in 1996, following more than 35 years at British Telecom, where he oversaw the launch of its GSM digital cellular networks that spread like wildfire across 90 percent of the U.K. in only nine months. With his position in […]

Wireless sensor specialist Dust Networks has developed a series of tiny network-enabled wireless sensors that have a low power appetite and can be used in industrial automation and control applications. Dust officials said the mote-on-a-chip sensors, announced today, require up to 80 percent less power and provide five times the battery life of existing devices. […]

BOSTON — The technology tire-kickers attending the WiMAX World event this week on Boston’s waterfront might have noticed the paradox before them. Companies big and small sermonized on the coming new wave of high-speed mobile broadband called WiMAX  and its promise of anytime high-speed connectivity. But it’s still a technology looking for more believers. “A […]

“Technology to the rescue.” That could be the mantra of a group of technology experts who will convene on Tuesday to show that BlackBerrys and Wi-Fi hotpots can be used for more than e-mail and mixing wireless with your latte. Silicon Valley Simulation Day, or Sim Day, will demonstrate how the latest IT and communications […]