Guy Kewney

Its a shameful thing. I dont know how to admit it. Im not wirelessly connected. OK, now that you know the worst, Ill make some excuses. First of all, I am writing from a place that is really the back of beyond. If I had a broadband connection, Id send you a picture. Its the […]

Linksys asked me to talk about “the future of wireless” for its annual sales convention. I ended up talking about advertising. Actually, its a mystery to me why the Cisco company wanted a European to talk to its sales staff in Irvine, Calif. At first, I thought it was the conspicuous spending. You know: “Were […]

The only thing that could make you look smarter than being able to operate a VCR is being able to set up a mobile conference call. Conference calls, of course, are the application nobody thinks is worth having. Theres a reason for that: Theyre wretchedly difficult to organize. Lets say youre at a football game […]

The first thing you suspect when your PC starts crawling is a virus or spyware. Not radio congestion. Ive been running spyware blockers. Its congestion, however, that is going to be the nemesis of wireless networking. And the problem may strike first in Europes jammed urban districts before it hits the more spaced out North […]

I havent heard the bulletins out of Geneva, but if they say “sweetness and light” on UWB, Ill put my money on “wishful thinking”. The word on the street is that ultra wideband wireless is more likely to become a Bluetooth standard than a generally accepted PAN (personal area network) alternative proposed by anybody else. […]

Youre thinking of investing in a mass-market GPRS data project? Let me show you an old sepia-tint photograph. The photograph isnt of an early portable phone. Its of a street in North London—actually, the street where my wife grew up. It shows Crouch End Broadway, if you really want to look it up. There is […]

Perhaps the organizers of the Wireless World Summit in London were a bit overambitious but they did, honestly, try to attract the people who mattered. So who do you think was missing? It wasnt the mobile operators. They were there: T-Mobile, Hutchison “3,” mmO2, and BT Mobile, for example—and were talking CEO-level delegates. Nor were […]

Its the latency, not the speed. But lack of speed kills, too. Can we go faster? The fatal accident looming on the old superhighway—if they dont find something magic to do about it—will be the 3G (third-generation) phone networks. At the recent UMTS show in London, the presentation that caught my attention was a “speed […]

I wish shows such as Enterprise Wireless Technology were more like Star Trek. At least then we wouldnt be tempted to look for rational motives in their stars. Last year, EWT in London was a temple of Wi-Fi hot spots. This year, it was all cell phone operators. The telcos have taken over. Well, weve […]

Given a choice between Research In Motion Ltd.s BlackBerry and Danger Inc.s Hiptop, any sensible user would choose the latter. However, the trend shows that we arent going to be given the choice. Were just admiring the BlackBerry and watching Palm and others make deals with RIM to allow mail-push servers reach devices that arent […]