Carol Ellison is editor of eWEEK.com's Mobile & Wireless Topic Center. She has authored whitepapers on wireless computing (two on network security–,Securing Wi-Fi Wireless Networks with Today's Technologies, Wi-Fi Protected Access: Strong, Standards-based Interoperable Security for Today's Wi-Fi Networks, and Wi-Fi Public Access: Enabling the future with public wireless networks.Ms. Ellison served in senior and executive editorial positions for Ziff Davis Media and CMP Media. As an executive editor at Ziff Davis Media, she launched the networking track of The IT Insider Series, a newsletter/conference/Web site offering targeted to chief information officers and corporate directors of information technology. As senior editor at CMP Media's VARBusiness, she launched the Web site, VARBusiness University, an online professional resource center for value-added resellers of information technology.Ms. Ellison has chaired numerous industry panels and has been quoted as a networking and educational technology expert in The New York Times, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, CNN Headline News, WNBC and CNN/FN, as well as local and regional Comcast and Cablevision reports. Her articles have appeared in most major hi-tech publications and numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor.
Philadelphia Mayor John Street and Dianah Neff, the citys chief information officer, will welcome technology professionals from some 33 cities, as well as counties, states and municipal coalitions, to their city next week as representatives from Dallas to Shanghai gather for the Digital Cities Convention there. Sponsored by the Wireless Internet Institute, the convention promises […]
From the world of Verizon Wireless come audible complaints that someone was not listening carefully to recent comments made by CEO Ivan Seidenberg regarding consumers elevated expectations of mobile telephone service. The San Francisco Chronicle last week quoted Seidenberg as saying consumers have “unrealistic expectations about a wireless service working everywhere. Why in the world […]
Scott Fox, former chairman of the board of the GSM Association, recently joined the board of directors of BelAir Networks, an aggressive young startup launched in 2003 producing scalable wide-area wireless mesh solutions in the hot, but often contentious, metro market. Fox is currently the chairman and CEO of Global View Partners Inc., a privately […]
Somebody should have reminded Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon Communications, that silence truly can be golden—like at those times when you come off looking as dumb as the ideas that you call “dumb.” Its not often that a $13 million salaried CEO of a $71 billion company deigns to sit down with a bunch of […]
Before it was the World Wide Web, the Internet started life as DARPAnet, a nationwide computer network that connected U.S. government with the nations leading research universities. Although students and faculty members at virtually all universities and many school systems routinely access the Internet through their local networks today, gaining access from remote campuses is […]
Days after Philadelphia rolled out its plans to go wireless, Minneapolis unveiled plans to provide wireless Internet access to the citys business, residents, governmental officials and visitors. The citys RFP, to be issued Wednesday, is expected to call for a privately owned, $15 million to $20 million citywide wireless and fiber-optic network. Contracts are expected […]
Enterprise IT managers are likely to see more Wi-Fi products certified for high security entering the market. The Wi-Fi Alliance, which tests and certifies wireless products to assure interoperability, said it will begin using four new authentication protocols to test products for WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2)/802.11i interoperability. “We basically had support for EAP-TLS, and […]
Nice Office, eAgency Systems web-enabled sales force automation/customer relationship management solution, is coming to the BlackBerry platform. The version of Nice Office designed for Research in Motion Ltd.s BlackBerry wireless solution will provide wireless sync capabilities, allowing subscribers to the BlackBerry messaging service to access and monitor contacts, sales, production and other business data without […]
Back in the days of the first OPEC-inspired energy crisis, an editorial cartoonist by the name of Jules Pfeiffer drew then-president Richard Nixon cutting cloth from one end of a blanket and sewing it back on the other, declaring that this was his answer to the problem. He called it Daylight Saving Time. The idle […]
A camera hovering 10 feet above the MemoryLink booth at the ISC West security conference in Las Vegas can capture the facial expressions on show attendees hundreds of feet away, according to Tim Ellsworth, vice president of sales and marketing for MemoryLink. The device, part of a new high-bandwidth, high-security wireless video-communication system from MemoryLink, […]