Stories by Bob Brewin

Article | 21/04/2004 Coca-Cola to deploy 28,000 Symbol mobile computers
Symbol Technologies introduced a new family of rugged, mobile computers with built-in tri-mode wireless capabilities Tuesday and announced that Coca-C...
Article | 24/03/2004 Coming soon, the do-everything wireless phone
Get ready for the do-everything wireless phone, and headsets, too, as manufacturers and developers in Atlanta at the annual Cellular Telecommunication...
Article | 20/10/2003 LEAP author says he wants to alert users to risks
Joshua Wright, the systems engineer who created a tool that targets wireless LANs protected by Cisco Systems' Lightweight Extensible Authentication Pr...
Article | 3/10/2003 Palm introduces widescreen handheld
Palm Wednesday introduced three handheld computers, including a Tungsten T3 that includes a 320-by-480-dpi color screen that can be used in landscape...
Article | 25/08/2003 Pharmacies embrace e-prescription system
Half of the 55,000 pharmacies in the U.S. are due to be connected to an electronic prescription system by year's end as part of a nationwide rollout t...
Article | 1/08/2003 Dell yanks Axim patch after hackers crack it
Dell posted -- then yanked -- a fix on its support Web site for its Axim handheld computers loaded with the Pocket PC 2003 operating system after some...
Article | 30/07/2003 Dell to patch Pocket PC multimedia glitch
Dell plans to have a software patch available Wednesday for a glitch in its version of Pocket PC 2003 software that can cause a "significant performan...
Article | 2/06/2003 Intel: Centrino software that causes VPN crashes turned off
Intel said last Friday that it has turned off software in its family of mobile processors that could cause some Centrino-powered notebooks to crash wh...
Article | 30/05/2003 Intel's Centrino may crash Windows when used with VPNs
Notebook and laptop computers based on Intel's new mobile and wireless Centrino chip architecture can experience a "blue screen" crash in Windows XP w...
Article | 23/05/2003 Final 802.11g draft standard throttles data rates down
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) has approved a new and final draft standard for 802.11g wireless LANs that will have...
Article | 12/03/2003 World attention away from Centrino launch
On Wednesday, Intel will officially launch its new Centrino mobile processor chip, which offers built-in Wi-Fi capabilities and will be given a US$300...
Article | 6/03/2003 Toshiba launches Wi-Fi 'hot spot in a box' project
The public access Wi-Fi hot spot market just got a little hotter as Toshiba Computer Systems Group (TCSG) formally launched a project to deploy 10,000...
Article | 6/02/2003 GPS/GIS mapping helps narrow search for shuttle debris
Using Global Positioning System-derived geo-location data to define the debris field from the breakup of the shuttle Columbia, researchers and undergr...
Article | 20/01/2003 GPS jammers raise concern
US government officials and communications experts are assessing the public safety and security implications of a newly posted online article that pro...
Article | 12/11/2002 Intel plans debut of 3-GHz desktop PC chip
Intel plans to introduce on Thursday a 3-GHz PC chip that incorporates hyperthreading technology, which automatically maximizes processor resources ac...

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