Motorola surprises with CEO choice 

By: BY GLENN BISCHOFF

Analysts were surprised that Motorola's board of directors went outside the company to appoint former Sun Microsystems executive Edward Zander as chairman...

Inside line-of-sight propagation 

By: BY HAROLD KINLEY

When a line-of-sight path exists between two antennas, the propagation loss is equal to free-space attenuation. Free-space propagation occurs in the far-field...

Open spectrum would ease crunch 

By: BY DOUG MOHNEY

Regulation, not physics, is preventing the more efficient use of spectrum, according to Forbes magazine contributing editor George Gilder and other free...

Software-defined radios near stride 

By: BY ALLAN MARGULIES

Software-defined radio is one of the key tools that will deliver more efficient use of spectrum, and the time has come to put that tool to use. So said...

Wi-Fi remains a work in progress 

By: BY DOUG MOHNEY

While Microsoft has caught considerable grief over Windows network security holes, it is not alone in what seems to be an industry-wide practice of leaving...

Home networking examined 

Home Networking Technologies and StandardsTheodore B. ZahariadisArtech House$79 Covering a majority of current and emerging home networking technologies,...

Mid-October spectrum bonanza 

By: DOUG MOHNEY

Meeting in open session Oct. 16, the Federal Communications Commission issued rules opening up spectrum for third-generation (3G) mobile phone services...

Satellite spectrum policy costs billions 

By: By Bill McCarthy

A former chief economist for the Federal Communications Commission insists that consumers are losing billions of dollars each year due to spectrum policies...

Software Defined Radio: The interoperability solution? 

By: by John Powell

With local and state public safety first responder agencies spread across 10 discreet RF bands, lack of interoperability is the significant problem most...

Wireless LAN, PAN standards expand 

By: By Doug Mohney

More standards will be soon added to the alphabet soup of 802.11a, b, and g in 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz wireless LAN and Bluetooth 2.4 GHz personal area network...

Motorola chairman cleans out desk 

Motorola, Inc. announced that Christopher B. Galvin, chairman and chief executive officer, decided to retire. Galvin has agreed to remain as chairman...

New, but not too new 

There is nothing new about me except that I am the new publisher of MRT. Kind descriptions would label me a grizzled veteran, having been in business-to...

E911 question for VoIP looms 

By: By Doug Mohney

Dialing and reaching emergency help is almost taken for granted on both old-fashioned wire lines and cellular wireless phones. Great pains have been taken...

Book uncovers Wi-Fi road map 

World Wide Wi-Fi: Technological Trends and Business StrategiesTeik-Kheong Tan and Benny BingJohn Wiley & Sons Inc., $59.95 World Wide Wi-Fi is a to the...

BRIEFS APCO EDITION 

By: Doug Mohney

Miami-Dade expands relationship with MSV Mobile Satellite Ventures announced at the APCO International 69th Annual Conference & Exposition in Indianapolis...