Caregivers can now use wireless handsets in forbidden areas 

San Antonio-based SBC Communications is offering local area hospitals a wireless local area network for voice and data communications. The service includes...

Texas town implements wireless mesh network 

Farmers Branch, Texas, selected Cisco Systems' outdoor wireless mesh product for citywide Wi-Fi access. The system, hosted and managed by Internet service...

Motorola introduces Wi-Fi card for 2.4, 4.9 GHz 

By: By Donny Jackson and Mary Rose Roberts

Motorola recently announced the launch of the WDE1000, which the vendor giant touts as the first 2.4 GHz and 4.9 GHz dual-band Wi-Fi card for citywide...

Alvarion, IBM converge on municipal Wi-Fi systems 

Alvarion and IBM will partner to deliver wireless systems to municipalities and public-safety agencies. The scalable, multi-layered, IP-based wireless...

Health care ahead of wireless curve 

By: BY JIM BARTHOLD

Put 30 different corporations with 30 inter-related disciplines under a single roof. Add dozens of different communications systems, and you'd have today's...

Tri-city riverfront offers Wi-Fi 

The Kentucky/Ohio riverfront now offers free Wi-Fi access to citizens and visitors. The new Wi-Fi system uses a combination of radios and antennas with...

Hong Kong airport deploys wireless system 

Cisco Systems announced that the Airport Authority of Hong Kong has deployed its Unified Wireless Network Solution. The 802.11 a/b/g solution supports...

Project MESA back on track 

By: BY LYNNETTE LUNA

Project MESA, or Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications, finally received the vendor support it has been seeking the last four years. A Project...

Symbol launches multi-network RF switching platform 

By: Glenn Bischoff

Symbol Technologies announced the Wireless Next Generation, or Wi-NG, architecture that lets users centrally manage voice and data communications over...

Hotel chain invests in wireless 

San Diego-based Barney Hospitality Group purchased Helium Networks' Wireless Recon system for wireless connectivity throughout its hotel properties. The...

Health system adopts wireless utility 

Carilion Health System, which serves western Virginia and parts of West Virginia, will install InnerWireless's medical-grade wireless utility in three...

San Francisco chooses Wi-Fi network 

A San Francisco city panel has selected a bid from search-engine giant Google and ISP EarthLink to build out a Wi-Fi network throughout the city. The...

Scottsdale goes wireless 

Computer users and those with hand-held wireless devices in Scottsdale, Ariz., now are able to access the Internet anywhere downtown by connecting to...

A No-Brainer 

By: by Donny Jackson

From Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to the streets of San Francisco, the pros and cons of municipal wireless broadband networks have been debated during...

Rio Rancho offers free access to Wi-Fi system 

By: BY DOUG MOHNEY

Residents of Rio Rancho, N.M., will be able to access the citywide Wi-Fi network for free after the city council voted to change the terms of its agreement...