Stories by Craig J. Mathias

Article | 19/09/2008 Predicting Wi-Fi performance: Can it be done?
Whenever I plan and configure an enterprise WLAN system, I always advise that an additional 10 to 20 percent of the capital budget be reserved for exp...
Article | 17/04/2008 No end in sight for WLAN architecture wars
You'd have thought that, by now, we would have settled the WLAN architecture wars. You'd think one architecture or another would have been declared th...
Article | 7/03/2008 Apple needs to offer removable batteries
Apple's penchant for producing products with batteries that are not swappable by users brings up a really interesting point - should consumers blindly...
Article | 29/01/2008 Goodbye, notebook; hello 'Web tablet'
The notebook computer is doomed. OK, that's a little strong. And as one of the people who worked on the first laptop PC, the GRiD Systems Compass Comp...
Article | 28/11/2007 Is Ultrawideband still a viable wireless technology?
Ultrawideband (UWB) has long been promoted as the future of wireless personal-area networks (WPAN). But are WPANs still needed?
Article | 23/11/2007 Are we asking too much of mobility?
I hate to admit this, but I've been having nothing but problems with my wireless strategy of late. My goal is to be 100 percent location-independent, ...

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