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.

Readers Sound Off on Municipal Wireless

This week Im turning this space over to the many readers who raised their virtual voices to me in e-mail regarding the ongoing battle over municipal Wi-Fi. Bills similar to one passed last year in Pennsylvania, which cloud the future of municipal wireless, are now pending in a number of states including Indiana, Ohio and […]

U.S. Mobile Deployments Lag Behind Asia, Europe

American consumers face no shortage of mobile technologies, but theyre still a long way from the level of service enjoyed by consumers in many other countries. “Youre more likely to get bb in Korea or parts of China than you are in the United States,” said Dan Scheinman, senior vice president of corporate development at […]

Aggregated Mobile Access Services Address Hot-Spot Security

Evil Twin, the phishing scheme that threatens users of Wi-Fi hot spots, has been well-known in the industry for as long as two years, according to the chairman of the Wi-Fi Alliances public access committee. Evil Twins target is the Universal Authentication Method, or UAM, the basic browser-based authentication presentation screen you see at most […]

Municipal Wi-Fi: Lets Keep It Local

Advocates of Big Broadband took their case against municipal Wi-Fi public on Thursday with a new report from the New Millennium Research Council. Six researchers and spokespeople from outside research organizations, all of whom contributed to the 40-page report, outlined why they think municipal Wi-Fi is a sorry idea in an hour-long conference call with […]

New Wireless Chips Reduce Power Consumption in Mobile Devices

ParkerVision Inc., of Jacksonville, Fla., this month announced a new line of efficient, high-performance, low-cost wireless chips. The new design extends the companys patented digital radio frequency transceiver technology called D2D (Direct2Data) to power amplifiers, the devices that boost the power of RF signals so that they reach their intended destination. RF amplifiers are used […]

Muni-Wireless: The Battle Continues

If you thought the debate over municipal broadband and its attendant Wi-Fi services ended with the passage of House Bill 30 in Pennsylvania late last year, think again. Not only does it rage on, but new players are entering the fray even as Philadelphias wireless rollout, the highest-profile project in the fracas, is moving toward […]

Golf Courses Put Wi-Fi to Work

What began as a GPS (global positioning satellite) tool to help golfers improve their games has evolved into a fixed wireless management system that is turning golf courses into community hot spots. “Weve really drilled down on the wireless network,” said Blake Poniuck, vice president of sales and marketing for GPS Industries, developers of the […]

Weighing In on Municipal Wireless

Somewhere between politics and protests, practical solutions usually can be found. Those who prefer practicality to rhetoric can often avoid the slings and arrows of political fortune and chart their own course to a desired end. My request for responses to my column on how a controversial Pennsylvania law will impact municipal wireless turned up […]

Cities Should Control Their Wi-Fi Fates

The holidays, it seems, cant pass without a Scrooge story. This years comes from the state of Pennsylvania where early this month Gov. Edward Rendell inked legislation that effectively left the future development of municipal wireless broadband services in that state in the hands of Big Broadband. The bill lets incumbent carriers (in Pennsylvania, that […]

Wi-Fi Range Wars on the Way?

Prepare for a range war. If theres been any significant movement in the mobile and wireless industry in the past year—and there has been a lot—one thing is certain: Were moving outward in giant strides. Find me an executive who doesnt sport a BlackBerry or data-capable smart phone among his or her inventory of necessary […]