wireless world

Ready for PAN

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:01:39 -0400

While the consumer wireless world waits for the iPhone, many sections of the wireless industry aren't waiting for anything. Nokia's Wibree, when considered along with Zigbee and Bluetooth, provides the overall foundation for a real revolution in personal area networks (PANs)--a network that connects all the devices we carry and the accessories that let us use those devices. In the same way that the Department of Energy is using a wireless network to protect a national lab campus, the PAN will enable security and productivity applications that we haven't yet considered. It's an exciting time to be looking at the wireless market--and the perfect time to be making sure that policies and procedures are ready to take the technologies yet to come into account. -Curtis

Editor's Corner

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:01:40 -0400

When I'm doing my digging for what's happening with wireless and mobility technology, I'm always looking for columns and articles that tap true expertise--insight from those who've taken the huge step of deploying wireless or have toiled in the industry. That's why you shouldn't miss a Q&A piece at CIO Insight featuring an interview with Jeff Hawkins, who founded Palm Computing and created the Palm Pilot and Treo. Hawkins, who's moving a bit out of the wireless world with his new company, Numenta, is focused on building machines based on a theory of the human brain. But he still has much to offer on the wireless front.

Mobility is a top quest for enterprises, Hawkins says, as people love the immediacy of getting and sharing information. He believes that faster and cheaper and more stable wireless networks are the key to pushing mobile computing and mobile communications technology to the max. Article

Handy wireless glossary

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:01:35 -0500

Keeping up with the new acronyms and terms within the wireless world isn't easy, even for those who read about new developments everyday. That's why this handy wireless glossary at Computerworld is a handy bookmark to have within reach. Everything from 2G to WML is defined in simple, easy to understand language.