Gerry Blackwell

One of the biggest challenges facing small businesses today, especially as they start growing larger, is how to integrate and automate key business management systems and software — customer relationship management (CRM), financials, e-mail, contacts and calendaring etc. The idea is for everything to work together efficiently and not end up creating extra work or […]

The not particularly momentous launch of Nokia’s UMA-enabled 6136 phone at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona last month touched off an interesting, and surprisingly far-reaching, debate among industry provocateurs about the very future of telephony. We take it even further. Does UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access), a technology that allows GSM carriers to seamlessly […]

Simdesk, a Houston-based, on-demand computing services company, offers two products — Simdesk Business Basic and Simdesk Business Plus — that provide just about every tool a small business needs to operate a virtual office. Simdesk lets you create, store, access and share information from any Internet-connected computer anywhere in the world. The Simdesk services provide […]

Dr. Frederick Gilbert, President of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, says he first made the decision to avoid using wireless technology on his campus seven years ago. He was and remains concerned about possible health effects from exposure to even the low levels of RF radiation emitted by Wi-Fi equipment. Data security was […]

If you need to take your files on the road or need to transfer them to other computers quickly and easily, then the LifeDrive, a new type of PDA from PalmOne, could be exactly what you need. In fact, if you travel with a laptop more for its storage capacity rather than its computing capability, […]

LCD monitors are fast becoming a commodity item, and as prices drop, 17-inch flat panels becomes the new 15 inch, and 19 inches the new 17. However, you can still find products that differentiate themselves with innovative features and superior performance. LG Electronics claims its 19-inch Flatron L1980Q fits in this category. The L1980Q is […]

The winter weather at the top of Mount Washington, the highest peak in New Hampshire and in the whole northeast United States, is, in a word, foul. On one record-breaking occasion, the wind speed measured at the Mount Washington Observatory reached 230 miles per hour. While it may be true that you can’t fall off […]

When enterprises first started deploying wireless LANs, cost justifying them seemed straightforward enough – once prices came down to a certain level. You still paid a premium for wireless LAN hardware and software, of course, but that was offset by the wired LAN cabling and installation costs you avoided. And then there were all the […]

When enterprises first started deploying wireless LANs, cost justifying them seemed straightforward enough – once prices came down to a certain level.You still paid a premium for wireless LAN hardware and software, of course, but that was offset by the wired LAN cabling and installation costs you avoided. And then there were all the soft-dollar […]

Roy Brister would have been an eager customer for some enterprising wireless ISP eager to branch out into providing network integration services. But three years ago in rural eastern Ontario, where Brister operates a chain of insurance brokerage offices, The Brister Group, no such animal existed. So Brister built his own 2.4 GHz wireless network […]