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Stories by John Cox

Article | 12/09/2007 802.11n starts its wireless stress test at university

There are two things different about Morrisville State College this week. One is the campus-wide wireless LAN, with about 700 access points, including...

Article | 10/09/2007 Nine wireless network companies to watch

New or emerging wireless and mobile companies continue to be a fountain of innovation, as our selection this year shows.

Article | 6/09/2007 Foleo, Foleo, where are thou, Foleo?

In an embarrassing setback for Palm, the handheld pioneer has scrapped its Foleo project, a two-and-a-half-pound "smart phone companion".

Article | 16/08/2007 Client software creates portable virtual desktop

RingCube Technologies has launched software that lets you package an entire corporate PC desktop as a single, self-contained, managed software image t...

Article | 2/08/2007 Study: 802.11n WLANs intrigue yet confuse IT execs

A survey of 195 senior IT professionals found that nearly half, 44 percent, already have decided to implement high-throughput 802.11n wireless LANs. E...

Article | 30/07/2007 Acquisitions show wireless LAN industry keeps innovating

A trio of recent wireless LAN vendor acquisitions is evidence that the industry is still in creative ferment.

Article | 9/07/2007 Nortel plans wireless product line

Nortel plans to deliver its own set of 802.11n wireless LAN products later in 2008, as part of a strategy to package a range of data and voice product...

Article | 13/06/2007 Bonnaroo Festival: Music to a Techie's Ear

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival bills itself as the "most tech-savvy festival in the land."

Article | 23/05/2007 INTEROP - Vendors spotlight 11n WLANs for the enterprise

Three wireless LAN vendors are unveiling at Interop Las Vegas this week enterprise access points that will offer 100Mbps to 200Mbps throughput, shared...

Article | 18/05/2007 Can Bluetooth 2.0 make a winning access point?

The fact that the market for Bluetooth access points went nowhere five years ago hasn't stopped Germany's Anycom from recently introducing a new one w...

Article | 10/05/2007 Enterprise notebooks tout new wireless LAN features

Two notebook makers have unveiled lighter, faster PCs, including several with optional cellular interfaces and Intel's latest wireless LAN technology,...

Article | 29/04/2007 Cisco wireless network exec sort of speaks out

We reached out and touched Cisco's Brett Galloway on his cell phone this week while he was commuting to work. A founder of wireless LAN switch pioneer...

Article | 30/04/2007 NEC's virtual desktop boosts thin client graphics

<a href="http://www.necam.com" target="_blank">NEC America</a> has introduced a virtual-desktop computing package designed to support demanding PC-qua...

Article | 23/04/2007 RIM explains BlackBerry crash; questions remain

The BlackBerry network failure in the US last week was caused by a small bit of new code and a still unexplained problem in the network's failover pro...

Article | 19/03/2007 Wi-Fi mesh software gets management boost

Tropos Networks has upgraded its Wi-Fi mesh operating system to ease management of large outdoor networks and support tens of thousands of concurrent ...