Russell Shaw is a specialist in mobile computing, telephony, networking and covers these fields regularly for numerous print and online publications. Russ writes the popular IP Telephony blog on ZDNet and contributes regularly to The Industry Standard blog as well. Author of seven books, Russ' latest book is Wireless Networking Made Easy.
John Yunker is president of Byte Level Research. He closely tracks emerging wireless technologies and their impact on consumers and carriers alike. Over the years he has written a number of major reports on technologies such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX and cellular technologies.
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Unwired studies emerging wireless technologies and how they complement and conflict with one another. Technologies covered include: Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Ultra-Wideband, Zigbee, EV-DO, UMTS, HSDPA and whatever else comes along.
Corante has launched a special section devoted to the Future of Wireless. It's worth a look. The first feature is a Q&A with the founders of Dodgeball.
Here's a very good blog about how Bluetooth appears to be not only hanging in there, but succeeding rather nicely. Perhaps it was just a matter of getting those unit costs low enough so that vendors no longer hesitate to embed it within devices.
If Cisco does buy Airespace, this will be one smart purchase, akin to the Linksys deal. Airespace was making nice inroads on Cisco's market share and really understands how to help enterprises make the most of their Wi-Fi grids.
Siemens is getting some blazing speeds out of OFDM. It is also going to be building OFDM gear in partnership with Flarion. OFDM is becoming the technology of choice for next-generation networks. Qualcomm's on board. Wi-Fi uses it. Who's next?
Unstrung reports that PCCW has dropped Navini in favor of IPWireless. Navini had tried to go the proprietary fixed wireless route awhile back, then began backing 802.20 only to change course and join the WiMAX Forum.
Yours truly is quoted in an article by Jeannette Borzo on some of the creative uses for Wi-Fi networks once they're in place. Wi-Fi isn't just about Internet access anymore. In fact, I was at the Electronic Home Expo recently and was suprised to see just how many home monitoring devices and remote controls that now use Wi-Fi.
Russell Shaw is a specialist in mobile computing, telephony, networking and covers these fields regularly for numerous print and online publications. Russ writes the popular IP Telephony blog on ZDNet and contributes regularly to The Industry Standard blog as well. Author of seven books, Russ' latest book is Wireless Networking Made Easy.
John Yunker is president of 
