Bob Brewin

Compaq Computer Corp. introduced a new line of portable computers Monday that feature interchangeable wireless modules, allowing users to quickly and easily switch from a corporate or public access wireless LAN to a wide area data network operated by a cellular telephone carrier.

Cheaper component costs, slower demand and competitive pressures all factored into a round of price cuts, ranging from 20 to 31 per cent, by three major PC makers on desktop models over the past week.

The desktop division of Microsoft Corp. has temporarily pulled support for Bluetooth short-range wireless devices from the next version of its Windows operating system.

Nokia Corp. may have to recall millions of cell phones due to a software glitch that renders them inoperable with the third-generation (3G) networks that major U.S. carriers plan to start using this year.

The Canadian government has kicked off a 90-day public comment period on whether to license technology aimed...

Computer scientists at the University of California at Berkeley have sounded new warnings about the vulnerabilities of wireless LANs, saying flaws in a common encryption algorithm pose major security issues.

On five of its long-haul Boeing 767 aircraft, Air Canada in December started providing the same kind...

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) plans to take its BlackBerry line of keyboard-equipped pagers on the road to Europe later this year by adding new models that are being designed to support both voice and data services over high-speed wireless networks being built in that region.