IoT

Toronto

Amid the venture capitalists, engineering wizards and marketing gurus at last week's Wireless Sensing Solutions conference were two State Farm Insurance Co. employees on a mission to learn about the event's namesake technology.

Bank of America Corp. this week announced plans for a corporate-wide IP telephony rollout that will eventually put an IP phone on every BoA employee

Nearly 1,000 Canadian Nortel Networks employees will lose their jobs in the near future, according to the communication equipment maker

Ford Motor Co.'s decision to pay SBC Communications Inc. US$100 million to deploy and manage a network of 50,000 VoIP phones is being touted by the carmaker as a money saver as the carrier plays up its entry into the heavyweight division of VoIP vendors.

The idea sounds good on paper: Build a mesh network of wireless Wi-Fi base stations and let users roam around an entire city instead of providing limited connectivity in a handful of hot spots. But will it work?

IBM Corp. on Tuesday will announce an expansion of its services for companies seeking help with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.

A million-dollar venture to ease IT burdens for small business in remote Australian locations could potentially find itself an exported as a wireless business model.