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.
CHICAGO—Research In Motion Ltd. development partners rolled out a series of new wireless applications for the BlackBerry platform at the RIM Wireless Enterprise Symposium here this week. PalmSource Inc. announced a distribution agreement with RIM that makes BlackBerry Connect wireless e-mail and data services available to licensees of the Palm operating system. In December, the […]
CHICAGO—Research In Motion (RIM) announced BlackBerry Enterprise Server Version 4.0, featuring enhanced security and over-the-air provisioning, today at the companys third annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium here. The new version, which the company demonstrated at the symposium but will not ship until later this year, simplifies deployment and application development for mobile devices in the enterprise […]
“Messaging in general and e-mail specifically” remain the killer applications in the mobile world, but that may soon change, David Nagel, president and CEO of PalmSource Inc., said at Research in Motion Ltd.s third annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium. The Palm OS is experiencing “enormous support by developers” and Palm has seen an acceleration in sign-ups […]
Question: When is a Wi-Fi vulnerability not a vulnerability? Answer: When the vulnerability plays into defenses against attacks. That may be the case with an advisory issued this week by AusCERT, Australias national computer emergency response team. The advisory described how a protocol characteristic of wireless networks can be exploited to stage a denial-of-service (DoS) […]
Microsofts exit from 802.11 hardware sales testifies to a management truism coined more than 20 years ago by management guru Tom Peters in his classic corporate opus, “In Search of Excellence”: stick to the knitting. From the moment the company announced it was getting into the Wi-Fi hardware market, it looked like the company had […]
Remember when romance was defined by songs on the radio dedicated to the one you love? Sure you do. But what does that have to do with mobile and wireless? The answer lies with Telenor, a Norwegian telecom that has devised a way to make money off of consumer-focused, value-added mobile applications with relatively few […]
No one can say that 2003 has not been kind to the channel. Its profit picture—not to mention its performance on Wall Street—promises to end the year on a high note not seen around these parts since 2000. With the Nasdaq flirting with the 2000 mark and the Dow marching steadily toward 1400, phrases like […]
Citrix Systems Inc. on Thursday announced its acquisition of Expertcity Inc., the Santa Barbara, Calif., company that makes GoToMyPC and GoToAssist, in a cash-stock transaction valued at approximately $225 million. The deal expands Citrixs portfolio of offerings to the desktop in what Citrix officials are touting as a move that will allow the company to […]
SAN JOSE, Calif.—The future of value-add services in the Wi-Fi space can be summed up in one word: roaming. Without roaming agreements to simplify the billing and log-on procedures that now complicate the use of Wi-Fi hotspots, user adoption cannot achieve the kind of critical mass needed to make Wi-Fi value-added services truly profitable. That […]
Ellison: When will you be rolling out the new partner programs? Flynn: Weve looked at how we have been doing our partner programs, and we wanted to focus on making changes. So we started this project about a year ago. its coming to fruition in the January time frame. We decided to roll it out […]