We look at four examples of the way mobile technologies such as GPRS and 802.11 are giving Australian businesses the opportunity to bring the benefits of connectivity to mobile workers.
Videoconferencing at the beach may still be a pipe dream, but the mobile workforce is here today. ZDNet Australia examines how businesses are reaping the benefits of mobility.
Scott Carson, president of Connexion and vice president of Boeing, explains how wireless surfing is making its way onto airplanes.
The standard known as 802.11b or Wi-Fi is disruptive, certainly if you've invested any time, money and effort in 3G. But there is always something potentially superior around the corner.
A key electronics industry group has approved a significant standard for wireless broadband specifications known as "WiMax," giving a boost to a technology proclaimed as a breakthrough for cheap high-speed Internet access.
Mesh technology allows new wireless networks to be created, or existing WLANs to be extended, without needing a wired connection to each base station. Additional reading: WLAN Resource Centre
Wireless networks are particularly vulnerable to security breaches and attacks because the signal is wide open so how to keep an eye on your wireless network? Also, is Wireless computing your IT priority?
The wireless era continues to be plagued by insufficient security, and both corporations and users are being put at risk. But the priority goes to add more nifty features.
Unauthorised IT activities are proliferating. But there's a way to gain control of runaway wireless IT without stifling the creativity and initiative that cause it.
Ray Gilbert, assistant vice president for IT enterprise collaboration at Alcatel Lucent, tells ZDNet.com editor-in-chief Dan Farber how the telecom services provider is addressing mobility needs and convergence challenges for the next generation of digital devices.
The next-generation wireless technology could take us one step closer to the mobile nirvana of one bill for mobile, Wi-Fi and broadband connectivity.
It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.
It's the PC's future. Will wireless computing crash a physical barrier and change the way people work with their computers--or it wind up a hobby for techno nuts?
Get this wireless thing right, and we could well be beneficiaries of a far-reaching boost in productivity.
Get an overview of the SD technology and see how the SD compares to other popular portable computing solutions. Then review the business reasons for using them.
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