Bob Brewin

Twenty years ago, employees started sneaking PCs into the office, under the radar of mainframe-oriented IT departments.

Even though Congress pumped an extra US$109 million into the public health IT infrastructure in this year's federal budget, the nation's state and local public health departments need at least 10 times that to meet anticipated demands.

Tens of thousands of unauthorized wireless LAN hardware devices called access points (AP) have popped up in enterprise networks.

Toronto

BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. has installed the kind of wireless LAN commonly used by retailers to help manage inventory and price verification.

The U.S. Air Force has taken tablet PCs higher than Bill Gates ever imagined and so far has not encountered the "blue screens" cursed by ground-bound Windows users.

Andy Rodenhiser describes himself as

BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. has installed the kind of wireless LAN commonly used by retailers to help manage inventory and price verification. This new system has some unique twists, including support for wireless voice-over-IP (VOIP) phones and wireless scales.