There is a lot of talk today about the potential of mobile and wireless technology. Somewhere between the hype and the naysaying lies the truth. While you cannot watch a movie on your mobile phone ...

One of the challenges in mobile computing is battery life. It’s hard to be productive with a dead battery, so IT personnel and users alike need to think about maximizing run time between charges.

A few years ago, thin clients were all the rage. Leading the charge was Sun Microsystems, driven perhaps by a disdain for Microsoft, but many others were producing a variety of thin-client products on ...

"We never gave security a thought," Brian Chee says, talking about what was probably the world's first wireless data network. Chee worked on Aloha Net, a new concept in communications developed by the ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy , SDG 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure and SDG 11 Hub: Sustainable Cities & Communities. Wireless ...

We recently did a study of the cost-effectiveness of wide-area (“outdoor”) wireless access vs. wire. OK, sure, if you’ve got FIOS or cable broadband or maybe a newer implementation of DSL or similar ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. This article is more than 3 years old. In February 2023, Nokia ...

The distributed nature of edge computing has been just what the world needed over the last two years as trends like remote work, Internet of Things (IoT), and AR/VR took off. That’s because edge ...

Intel and Cisco Systems are linking their plans to improve the reliability of wireless computer networks and the quality of Internet voice communication. The chipmaker and the networking giant are ...

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There has been for some while “heated debates” amongst fellow blogospherians (probably not a word, don’t comment and bitch about it please) about all these cloud services we’re hearing about. First we ...

Mobile commerce (also known as mobile ecommerce, m-commerce and other variations) consists of two primary components. The first is the ability to use a wireless phone or other mobile device to conduct ...