Matt Hamblen

Government workers and emergency personnel would be exempt from a possible shutdown of BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in the U.S., a situation that has private-sector users steaming.

Government workers and emergency personnel would be exempt from a possible shutdown of BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in the U.S., a situation that has private-sector users steaming.

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) said Wednesday that it has a software work-around design that is ready and can be implemented if necessary to resolve its patent dispute with NTP Inc.

Branch office and retail store wireless technology got a boost from vendors at the National Retail Federation show in New York this week. Aruba Networks Inc. launched a new branch office and retail switch that handles Wide and Local Area Network traffic.

At Sunshine Village Ski & Snowboard Resort in Canada

Corporate purchases of IP virtual private network services continue to surge forward, a trend that analysts say is being accompanied by a shift away from the use of frame relay technology to carry network traffic.

Warring factions of vendors have reached an agreement to cooperate on development of the next high-speed wireless LAN standard, and IEEE standards officials this week said that the planned joint proposal could be ready for an initial vote in November.

When it comes to mobile and wireless technology, what keeps a CIO up at night? John Wade, CIO of the Saint Luke's Health System in Kansas City, Mo., said he faces many of the same problems confronting other CIOs when it comes to supporting mobile and wireless technology in a large organization.