Adam Stone

There are airports, and there are airports. As New York’s busiest flyway, John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) handles more than 30 million passengers a year. That’s a lot of Wi-Fi coverage, if wireless is what you want. ”Airports are mini-cities. You don’t just have passengers. You have airlines, you have concessions, you have a […]

At biomedical firm Inhibitex in Georgia, Systems Administrator Ron Whitling has more than enough to do, just keeping desktops up and running for some 65 employees. Add to that the 200 pieces of unsolicited e-mail, or spam, that arrive every day, and Whitling finds both his time and his resources stretched to the limit. “I […]

With business-to-consumer mobile commerce still limping toward the starting post, analysts are keeping themselves busy by poking holes in the present ruler of the roost: mobile enterprise applications. Now one major vendor is poking back. Mobile enterprise apps promise to extend the reach of traditional commerce into the mobile environment, bolstering the power of on-the-go […]

Like many ideas with roots embedded deep in mobile wide-area network (WAN) technology, m-commerce has been slow to germinate. But lately, many analysts are predicting that wireless local area networks (WLANs) may prove to be the soil in which mobile commerce finally takes hold. To that end, some say, businesses need to get comfortable with […]