Wireless


  • Turn Handsets Into Desksets
    AS THE MOBILE WORKFORCE continues to grow — In-Stat reports there are 20-millionto- 30-million mobile workers in the United States — and rely on wireless connectivity to do their jobs, dealers have an opportunity to help those companies streamline their communications and ...More
    June 1, 2006 By Khali Henderson
    Posted in Articles
  • Power of Suggestion
    WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WIRELESS services: retail, Web and operator come to mind. It doesn’t seem like systems integrators and VARs would play a role in how businesses buy wireless, but that’s not really true. According to business decision makers, channel partners do play a ...More
    June 1, 2006
    Posted in Articles
  • Seismic Shift
    MANY ENTERPRISES HAVE installed WLANs over the past few years, but these initial deployments are often departmental and based on an earlier generation of equipment optimized for transactional data applications, like Internet access or e-mail. Now, the lay of the land is ...More
    June 1, 2006 By Tara Seals
    Posted in Articles
  • Back-Up Plan
    JUST BECAUSE SECOND-GENERATION cellular technologies have been overshadowed by their faster, more-hyped siblings does not mean they do not have their uses in a mobile world, and some companies have set out to prove just that with devices that provide high-speed connectivity ...More
    June 1, 2006 By Kelly Teal
    Posted in Articles
  • Product Showcase: WLAN Solutions
    Aironet WLAN Family Manufacturer : Cisco Systems Inc., www.cisco.comFeatures: Cisco Aironet access points provide secure, manageable connectivity. Lightweight access points operate in conjunction with Cisco wireless LAN controllers and the Wireless Control System (WCS). ...More
    June 1, 2006
    Posted in Articles
  • IP PBXs Go Portable
    THE NOTION OF MOBILE connectivity is no longer simply the ability to have voice conversations using a mobile phone or to use a VPN to access company data. It encompasses remote connectivity to all the features of an enterprise’s PBX and LAN using sophisticated mobile ...More
    June 1, 2006
    Posted in Articles, Voice over IP (VoIP)/IP Telephony
  • Disney Mobile Debuts
    THIS MONTH, THE WALT DISNEY CO. WILL LAUNCH A MUCH-ANTICIPATED MOBILE PHONE SERVICE TARGETED AT THE TWEEN-TEEN SET AND DISNEY ENTHUSIASTS OF ALL AGES. THE MAN HEADING UP THE NEW DISNEY MOBILE BUSINESS UNIT IS GEORGE GROBAR, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER, AND ...More
    June 1, 2006 By Tara Seals
    Posted in Articles
  • Mobile E-Mail on the Move
    MOBILE E-MAIL BECAME A front-page story earlier this year when news that BlackBerry push e-mail service might be shut down due to a patent infringement lawsuit. But while the service rocketed into the general psyche over BlackBerry’s troubles, uptake for e-mail-on-the-move ...More
    May 1, 2006 By Tara Seals
    Posted in Articles
  • New products
    Cellebrite UME-36 Transfers Phonebooks, Multimedia Content Cellebrite USA Inc. released UME-36, the latest version of its Universal Memory Exchanger, which now allows wireless dealers to transfer not only users’ phonebooks, but pictures, videos, ringtones, MP3s and short ...More
    May 1, 2006
    Posted in Articles
  • Mobile Middleman
    Lisa and Tim Koxlien split responsibilities for consumer and B2Bwireless sales, respectively. AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE selling landline services to enterprises, Tim Koxlien found his telecom agency at a crossroad like so many companies following 2001’s telecom bust. That ...More
    May 1, 2006
    Posted in Articles