John Cox

Research In Motion announced server software that makes it easier for companies to deploy mobile applications tied into back-end data.

Sprint plans to have 100,000 points of presence enabled with WiMAX service by the end of 2008. The network will be an overlay on the company's existing CDMA EV-DO 1x cellular net.

Chip vendors, equipment builders, carriers, and network providers will go the way a tiny start-up has already begun in Hanna, Alberta: deploying Nortel base stations and customer premises gear (called subscriber stations) with radios based on the IEEE 802.16d fixed WiMAX standard. Netago's plan and early experience suggests the future development of fixed WiMAX in much of North America.

The demand for wireless skills is rising as companies in an improving economy look to expand and catch up on postponed IT projects, according to a recent study by Robert Half Technology, a division of the global staffing and placement firm.

Scan the job postings: IT network job descriptions increasingly cite wireless skills among the requirements. There also has been an influx of training courses in wireless and certification programs aimed at wireless administration and security. These are adding luster

Tropos Networks has a new version of its wireless LAN mesh network software that contains changes intended to improve client connections.

“It was very overwhelming.” That was how Andrew Hintz, Internet technology director for the California Demo-cratic Party, summed up Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates’...

Three wireless LAN vendors are releasing software upgrades that add features for intrusion detection, radio frequency management and wireless VoIP. The changes are part of the evolution of enterprise WLANs, which includes giving network administrators more sophisticated management tools and better tuning of the WLAN infrastructure to deal with voice traffic.