Wireless & IoT

Nortel Networks Corp. is opening up its Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) code to the public in an effort to promote interoperability with other vendors' gear, the company announced at the Supercomm trade show.

Symbol Technologies Inc. wants to help secure data and applications on handheld devices via the acquisition of Trio Security Inc., a privately held software vendor in Colorado Springs, Colo., the company announced Thursday.

When Lan Nguyen tried to use her cell phone for an interview about Centennial College's telecom projects, the call wouldn't go through. Nguyen's handset couldn't get a signal

In this first decade of the 21st century, the communications industry is at an interesting transition point.

The popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail device does not infringe upon patents held by NTP Inc. for a wireless communications system, lawyers for Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) argued before a U.S. federal appeals court Monday.

Cisco Systems Inc. says its Internet Protocol (IP) telephony system has earned Miercom's highest security rating, after sustaining three days of grueling, round-the-clock tests conducted by sophisticated "hackers" looking for security vulnerabilities.

Wireless broadband, including the yet-to-be-deployed WiMax, has tremendous growth potential, but is still years from rollout, according to wireless broadband equipment vendors speaking at a conference Wednesday.

In the first of its bi-weekly updates required by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), Nortel Networks Corp.'s CEO Bill Owens said that while the company intends to "get through the accounting restatement in good shape," the company can't say when it will have the restatements of accounts for 2003 and the first quarter of 2004 completed.

It's been said that Canadians like to see one of their own do well. But not too well.