Thursday, August 24, 2000
Silicon Valley experts debate the future of wireless technology The predictions come and go, but the facts remain the same -- the future of wireless technology lurks largely in the unknown.
Thursday, August 17, 2000
Teasers 
Thursday, June 15, 2000
PageNet offers two-way paging and advanced messaging Representing part of its nearly $100 million ongoing investment in wireless messaging services, Paging Network of Canada (PageNet) plans to launch an advanced messaging and two-way paging network in the Canadian wireless market.
Thursday, June 01, 2000
Wireless guru tells how to find everything Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. Don Tapscott, Canadian cyber-guru and author of such books as Growing Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Our World, has backed up his speeches predicting a booming wireless world by becoming chairman of a company in Toronto selling location-based services for cell phone and PDA, as well as wireline, users. 
Thursday, May 18, 2000
Wireless winds up There’s a wireless revolution afoot. Mobile phone vendors are rolling out handsets that let consumers and professionals perform a variety of tasks on the go, such as scanning stock prices, booking tickets to an evening concert, or even buying a book. Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) makers are also leaping into the fray by adding wireless capabilities to their latest models. And in the bigger bandwidth arena, suppliers are shipping microwave and radio gear that allows businesses to get high-speed WAN connections even if their office buildings don’t have decent fibre hook-ups.
Thursday, April 06, 2000
NorstarMall.ca facilitates wireless shopping They may not be predominant yet, but Web-enabled wireless devices and Internet services are all the buzz, and Canadian e-commerce shopping portal NorstarMall.ca, which features over 500 Canadian and American e-retailers, has decided to get a head start. 
Thursday, March 23, 2000
Panelists optimistic about state of Canadian IT It is not often you can get a doctor, a politician and a few senior business executives to agree on anything. But when the stars are aligned just so, it happens.
Thursday, March 09, 2000
PDAs and wireless Internet could finally make computing truly mobile If you watch TV these days, you can’t miss commercials for wireless Internet service. Some content providers are even designing pages for the microdisplay limitations of personal communications services (PCS) phones. But the real utility of Web surfing on a display the size of a postage stamp has yet to be proved. Could wireless Web be doomed to the fate of previous portable data technologies such as Cellular Digital Packet Data? Maybe not.
Thursday, February 24, 2000
3Com ships high-speed wireless LAN products 3Com Canada Inc. became among the first 802.11b high-speed wireless LAN vendors to market when it began shipping its 3Com AirConnect 11Mbps Wireless LAN this month.
Thursday, January 06, 2000
Cisco and Wi-LAN Face Off on Wireless A dispute brewing between Wi-LAN Inc. of Calgary and Cisco Systems Inc. over setting the standard for wireless Internet may be a result of bad advice given to Cisco, according to one telecommunications analyst.
Thursday, December 16, 1999
An NWC wish list for Christmas and the new year With Christmas fast approaching, it’s time to prepare a Christmas wish list. Here are some of the things NWC is hoping to find under the tree come the morning of Dec. 25:
Thursday, December 02, 1999
Power for the Road For any corporation, getting timely information out to where it’s really needed is a challenge. For Calgary-based TransAlta Utilities Corp., that meant giving 200 mobile customer service reps access to real-time enterprise data -- from their trucks!
Thursday, July 01, 1999
Carriers & ISPs Briefs Microcell Solutions Inc. introduced in May the new FidoData service that turns the company’s Fido PCS handset into a wireless modem when connected to a laptop computer. FidoData allows users to access the Internet via their ISP or to connect to their corporate network server to manage e-mail and access work files. Other offered functionality includes sending faxes wirelessly from a laptop or exchanging text messages with other Fido customers. Data and fax communications are encrypted and transmitted on a fully digital network. Packaged in a box that includes software, a laptop cable and user documentation, FidoData will have an intial purchase price of $225 plus a $5 monthly fee. Microcell is at www.microcell.ca.
Thursday, January 28, 1999
AT&T Labs cookin’ up a voice and data mix On the walls of AT&T Labs’s hallways are old photographs of the first transatlantic phone call, five generations of Alexander Graham Bell’s family and other reminders of AT&T’s illustrious history.