Matt Hamblen

The prices customers pay for faster wireless bandwidth with next-generation data services will be a key to how fast those services are ultimately adopted.

Baylor Health Care System in Dallas recently standardized on one wireless handheld device for users, but IT managers worried that security and management of the devices still needed to be bolstered.

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) plans to offer its BlackBerry wireless e-mail reference design program to other manufacturers so they can add it to advanced wireless phones and handheld computers.

After chugging along through the late 1990s, the job market came to a screeching halt last year. For at least the first half of 2002, bruised and battered IT workers will have a hard time climbing back on board the job train.

More than a dozen IT managers interviewed by Computerworld (U.S.) say they see a growing need for wireless management tools for small devices.

Motorola Inc. is conducting an ambitious wireless trial in Florida to allow public safety personnel to send colour video wirelessly to vehicles in the field and to conduct wireless videoconferencing, complete with voice and data.

Kansas City, Mo.-based Air Charter Team, an air passenger charter company for VIPs, relies on fixed wireless technology for fast access to the Internet to help in booking flights and downloading streaming media.

Officials at IBM Corp. made a slate of wireless and mobile computing announcements late last month, including a new colour-screen handheld and another in a line of ThinkPad laptops with antennas integrated inside for wireless LAN access. The company also announced new wireless customers, partners and wireless systems administration tools.