Carol Ellison

About

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.

Mobile Market Awaits Break in the DRM Logjam

Grokster has hit the agenda of the U.S. Supreme Court. It promises to be one of those landmark legal battles that will produce a decision that profoundly changes life in these United States. In this case, its digital life. Grokster, if youre not already familiar with it, is the peer-to-peer network thats raised the hackles […]

Opening Day in Texas Opens Up to Wi-Fi

The Round Rock Express, a triple-A minor-league baseball team, is set to take on the neighboring major-league Houston Astros on opening day Friday in the minor-leaguers own stadium in Round Rock, Texas: the just-gone-wireless Dell Diamond. The Express has teamed up with Wayport, the nationwide Internet access provider and operator of some 7,000 hotspots in […]

Bluetooth in China: What a Difference a Year Makes

In the ocean of big and noisy debates that surround the push for wireless standards, one small but quiet ripple this month went largely unnoticed. But it represents a sea change in the effort to ensure that standards, once adopted, get adopted worldwide. While working groups of the IEEE were working their way through proposals […]

Companies Push Security for Mobile Devices

Wheres the data? Thats the question on the minds of mobile professionals and the IT departments responsible for that data whenever a device is missing, and Pointsec Mobile Technologies has partnered with Smartner Information Systems Ltd., a provider of push e-mail solutions for mobile devices, in an effort to provide an answer—or, at least, peace-of-mind […]

Municipal Broadband Bills Come Under Fire

If not for politics and broadband, Ben Gould and Ron Sege might not have much in common. As chief marketing officer for DynamicCity, Gould sells fiber to the premises, or FTTP, solutions. As CEO of Tropos Networks, Sege delivers metro-scale broadband solutions wirelessly over mesh networks. In some ways these are competing technologies. In other […]

Spotwave to Launch Home Indoor Wireless Coverage

The number of wireless mobile phone subscribers in the United States topped 180.5 million last year, up 21.7 million from the year before. Within that number, a growing percentage of users are turning to their mobile phones at home and at work as a replacement for desktop phones. With those customers in mind, Spotwave Wireless […]

Mobile Phones Go Corporate with Avaya Partnership

Mobile professionals increasingly rely on mobile devices to do business. For those who are often on the road, they have become the primary connection to customers, suppliers and back to the corporate office. But that connection has been complicated by the fact that cell phones lack the flexible features—like multiparty conferencing and abbreviated extension dialing—that […]

GPS Phone to Take the Stage at CTIA

Moments after the tsunami struck the shores of Sri Lanka in December, the Tidal Wave Rescue Center launched an effort to locate as many victims as possible through its cell phones. The technology that was used was helpful but not exact. The center sent text messages to each of the 10,252 international roaming phones in […]

Cell Phone Users Put Porn in Their Pockets

Youve read all about mobile content. Its the hottest thing in mobile and wireless right now. And whats hottest about it is streaming video. Well, its about to get a lot hotter, and whats setting it afire is the demand for … ahem, let us gently describe it as adult content. A recent report from […]

Interactive Taxis: Taking a Ride on the Web Side

Ive seen the future of mobile advertising. Its in the back of taxi cabs cruising the streets in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and, if fortune smiles upon Corey Gottlieb, soon to be New York. Gottlieb is CEO of a company called Interactive Taxi. It operates from an office currently stacked with EvDO (Evolution Data Optimized) […]