Stephen Lawson

Articles by Stephen Lawson

Saving a municipal Wi-Fi network

City of Lompoc, California finds managing subscribers and controlling access are critical to Wi-Fi network success

A tale of two city Wi-Fi’s

Different approaches to wireless Internet access in San Francisco and neighbouring Silicon Valley are producing very different results, with one project springing up around the city and the other inching through regulatory procedures.

New top-level domains expected in 2009

In an attempt to wide the range of top-level domains, ICANN will set up a system allowing anyone running an Internet registry to create a generic domain name.

3G network growth boosts Qualcomm’s fortunes

Demand has been higher than expected for Qualcomm's HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) and EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) chips, as well as carrier network upgrades

Cisco takes aim at mobility with appliance line

While trying to tackle the limitations that traditional enterprise networks have in dealing with mobile devices, Cisco is also looking ahead toward mobility and location becoming more important components of enterprise applications

Linksys phase-out ahead of schedule

Cisco says there's confusion in the SMB market, and it's resellers dont want to carry both. So the brand Cisco bought in 2003 will disappear sooner, rather than later

IT jobs shuffled by storage revolution

The growing flood of data that enterprises create and consume is doing more than giving rise to new storage technologies. It's also changing who is responsible for storage within IT departments.

ITC sides with Nokia over Qualcomm

The mobile manufacturer claims another round in the ongoing legal boxing match with the chipmaker

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