Stories by Matt Hamblen

Reveling in positive first quarter, Sprint is bullish

Sprint PCS Group technology and business officials here are gung-ho about the promise of third-generation wireless capabilities for business users, which will begin to roll out by the end of this year and will be nationwide by mid-2002.

U.S. wireless industry eyeing Japan's I-Mode success

With wireless Internet usage in the US falling short of analyst projections, many industry officials are eyeing the wildly successful I-Mode wireless Internet service rolled out two years ago by NTT DoCoMo in Japan.

Wireless ads show promise in Colorado trial run

A wireless advertising trial run that involved sending ads to 1,000 users of mobile computing devices in Boulder, Colorado, has buoyed the hopes of some companies eager to reach potential buyers with the new technology.

Open standard could ease Net server integration

To reduce the risk of malicious ActiveX files being sent to employees' desktops via the Internet, Germany's second-largest bank recently began weeding them out using a new open protocol.

NorthPoint Punishes Verizon with Legal Action

NorthPoint Communications Group Inc. Friday filed a threatened lawsuit against Verizon Communications Inc. in an attempt to force Verizon to either revive a digital subscriber line (DSL) merger deal it killed last week or pay NorthPoint damages of up to US$1 billion.

Dual Phone/Handheld Devices Near Release

Ladies and gentlemen: Start your smart phones! Three new cell phones that double as personal organizers have been announced for shipment early next year, offering mobile users the chance to carry one device instead of two.

Fiorina: HP wants to be top in PC sales

Hewlett-Packard wants to be the number 1 or 2 in worldwide PC sales and has decided not to become a major application service provider (ASP), CEO Carly Fiorina told attendees of Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2000.

Fiorina: HP Will ‘Play to Win' in PC Market

Hewlett-Packard takes its PC business seriously and aims to be No. 1 or No. 2 in worldwide PC sales, CEO Carly Fiorina told attendees at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2000 in the US last week.

Wireless apps lead to privacy concerns

Concerns about loss of privacy caused by the use of wireless devices will rock the budding wireless location industry, analysts and users warned last week.

SBC and BellSouth Wireless Is Now 'Cingular'

Cingular Wireless is the new name for the joint venture of the two wireless divisions of San Antonio, Texas-based SBC Communications Inc. and Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., company officials announced Thursday.

Wireless Insecurity

Every business should be lucky enough to get a visit from a friendly hacker like Jeff Schmidt. On July 27, Schmidt tried out a brand new wireless LAN card on his laptop at work. He didn't expect anything to happen, because his organisation's wireless LAN wasn't up and running yet. But, to his surprise, he was able to connect without any trouble to the network of an office down the street. Oops.

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