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.

T-Mobile Rolls Out Strong Security at Wi-Fi Hot Spots

In a move it expects will allay the concerns of enterprise customers, T-Mobile is introducing strong, 802.1x-based authentication and encryption across its network of 4,700 hot spots. The move, which appears to be the first use of advanced 802.1x-based security by a national mobile carrier in U.S. hot spots, leverages the existing 802.1x infrastructure used […]

Now Batting: Stadium Wi-Fi

For a moment, it felt like I was back on the sports beat at The Cincinnati Post, the journalistic enterprise where I cut my teeth as a reporter more years ago than I care to remember. But the tales, if not the years, are worth remembering. Those were the days of the Big Red Machine, […]

Nextel Introduces BlackBerries to MBA Students

How have your BlackBerry and other personal communication technologies changed the way you do business? Thats the question being asked this year at the University of Marylands Smith School of Business where Nextel, Inc., has distributed 320BlackBerry 7510s to master degree candidates. The partnership is designed to afford the school the opportunity to study the […]

Wireless Carriers Court Sports, Entertainment

The 27-pound sterling silver trophy that NASCAR and Nextel Communications Inc. unveiled this week may have been the latest and most artistic tribute to the organizations partnership. But its the delivery of wireless content to stock car racing fans that runs closer to Nextels core business. Nextel and NASCAR have been testing that business model […]

Roaming Agreements Put Wi-Fi on the Map

As recently as a few months ago, mobility—true mobility—was still a pipe dream in the wireless equation. Now theres more fire than smoke in that pipe. The drive to sign roaming agreements that allow users to move seamlessly from Wi-Fi network to Wi-Fi network has gained momentum since the first of the year. Before the […]

Wi-Fi Surpasses $1B in Quarterly Revenues

Researchers at In-Stat/MDR reported this week that the Wi-Fi market has experienced five years of healthy growth since 802.11b emerged as the dominant wireless standard. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based In-Stat/MDR reported that the world market for Wi-Fi hardware surpassed $1 billion in quarterly revenues by the fourth quarter of 2003. The researchers said the market is undergoing […]

SP2 Tools Ease Wireless Configuration

If yours is among the lucky enterprises whose applications dont appear on Microsofts list of 50 that “seem to stop working” or the other 200 that “behave differently” under SP2, youll probably enjoy the utility that SP2 brings to a wireless environment. SP2 does not solve all the problems of managing a wireless network but […]

RADIUS, Rogues and Wireless Security Practices

It would be tempting to dismiss Aruba Wireless Networks advisory this week about RADIUS vulnerabilities as old news if security werent so darned important. RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) servers have been used to authenticate users since virtually the dawn of the World Wide Web, and their weaknesses have been known for about as […]

iPass to Let IT Managers Guide Mobile Security

In a move that analysts say is likely to open the door to greater corporate use of public Internet hot spots, iPass Inc. announced Monday that it will enhance its mobile connectivity services to allow corporate IT managers to enforce security policies over all connections, including connections from public wireless hot spots. “Mobility has been […]

Rivals Close In on Nokia

Yesterdays earnings reports from Nokia Inc. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, and another Friday morning from Samsung Electronics, played out like classic David vs. Goliath drama with Nokia, titan of the mobile handset market, foundering under the slings and arrows of nimble competitors. Nokia dominated the opening scene yesterday with a good-news, bad-news report […]