John Cox

Senior Editor, Infrastructure

 

jcox@nww.com (978) 834-0554 Fax: (978) 834-0558

Network World, Inc. 118 Turnpike Road Southborough, MA 01772

Recent articles by Cox

Hosted RFID service targets mobile users
Aug. 26, 2008
A new hosted service from SkyeTek is designed to apply RFID technology for mobile users and applications.

802.11n rate of adoption unprecedented, study finds
Aug. 25, 2008
Controller-based, pervasive wireless LANs are quickly become a standard feature of enterprise networks, according to a new study by BT North America.

Disruption-tolerant nets set for large-scale test
Aug. 22, 2008
Scientists have begun readying a large-scale field test of a mobile network designed to keep working despite failures, glitches and long delays.

Palm unwraps the unlocked 3G Treo Pro smart phone
Aug. 20, 2008
Palm took the wraps off Palm Treo Pro, a new, and unlocked, Windows Mobile 3G smart phone, aimed directly at enterprise users.

RFID, radio location services use soaring at hospitals, study shows
Aug. 20, 2008
Hospitals are embracing a range of radio technologies to track everything from drugs to doctors with increasing accuracy. Location and identity data are fostering new efficiencies, costs savings, and redesigned ...

Nine wireless companies to watch
Aug. 14, 2008
This year's crop of companies focuses on voice and data convergence, spectacular technical advances in radio technology, the personalization of cellular, and what can only be called mobile spontaneity.

Google, Microsoft woo higher ed with free online services
Jul. 31, 2008
Google announced new college and university customers, who are outsourcing e-mail services and collaboration applications to the cloud. Microsoft also is making the Web a battleground for a new generation of users.

802.11n support added to wireless intrusion defense
Jul. 25, 2008
AirTight Networks this week announced the planned mid-September release of its SpectraGuard Enterprise wireless IPS, which will let network managers identify and manage 11n access points and clients.

WLAN design tool now works with 11n access points
Jul. 24, 2008
Motorola's WLAN design tool, LANPlanner, now works with 11n access points. The Windows application shows the layout of access points on a building diagram and their coverage and performance.

WiMAX WISPs target the enterprise
Jul. 23, 2008
Wireless ISPs are migrating to WiMAX, offering cost-effective, responsive network alternatives to wireline providers

New mobile browsers bringing real Web to handhelds
Jul. 21, 2008
A new generation of mobile Web browsers is finally making the Web a reality on handheld devices.

Opera Mobile 9.5 beta Web browser makes debut
Jul. 17, 2008
Opera Software Thursday launched the public beta test Opera Mobile 9.5, its full-blown, native Web browser for smartphones

Lenovo aims multi-wireless notebooks at SMBs
Jul. 15, 2008
Lenovo's trio of new ThinkPad notebooks are designed for the SMB market and include the new Intel Centrino 2 802.11n adapter and a 3G option for AT&T's cellular network.

As free Wi-Fi blinks out in Portland, Ore., paid wireless expands
Jul. 14, 2008
Portland, Ore.'s free Wi-Fi network has been shut down by the troubled operator, MetroFi. Meanwhile, a local ISP is expanding paid wireless services, while offering a limited amount of free use.

Alcatel-Lucent adds laptop disk-encryption support
Jul. 10, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent has released an updated version of its OmniAccess 3500 wireless-security appliance for laptop PCs.

Mozilla's mobile Firefox targets summer release
Jul. 09, 2008
Packed with innovations from the desktop browser, Firefox for mobile is being designed to bring the full Web to handhelds.

Skyfire exec talks up scaling mobile Web browser
Jul. 09, 2008
Skyfire is one of the companies with a vision of surfing the full Web from a mobile device, just as you do from a desktop. They just hired mobile programmer Mike Rowehl as scalability architect, to help them do it.

Zhone's metro wireless solution: add wires
Jul. 08, 2008
Zhone Technologies has released a new wireless node aimed at network operators: it's the first to use 802.11n high-throughput radios, and uses copper DSL links for backhaul, simplifying deployments and cutting their ...

Sybase iAnywhere bolsters mobile device security
Jul. 02, 2008
Sybase iAnywhere is beefing up its Afaria mobile-device management software by adding antivirus and firewalling capabilities.

Mobile software blends Wi-Fi/GPS signal for accuracy
Jul. 01, 2008
Skyhook's mobile device software fixes your location using Wi-Fi and GPS signals. The new version adds cellular signals, and improves accuracy and speed.

Symbian deal will open up mobile platform market
Jun. 26, 2008
When Nokia announced this week that it had agreed to purchase Symbian and open up some of its code for public use, many analysts said it was a direct shot across Android's bow.

RIM maintains blazing growth
Jun. 26, 2008
Research In Motion reported, again, outstanding growth in revenue, new BlackBerry subscribers and profits at the close of its first fiscal quarter.

Microsoft on Symbian's open source move: Good luck with that
Jun. 26, 2008
A Microsoft product manager predicts Symbian is embracing the problems, as well as the opportunities, of open sourcing its mobile-phone code.

Mobile Linux groups fuse to advance unified OS
Jun. 26, 2008
One industry group focused on writing standards for mobile Linux is closing its doors and blending its efforts with another industry group focused on writing mobile Linux code.

2008 wireless/mobile companies to watch
Aug. 14, 2008