Stories by John Cox

Apple tablet speculation rekindled in Wall Street report

The rumor that Apple is preparing for 2010 a tablet-like netbook with a 7- to 10-inch multi-touch screen and a price tag of less than $700 has gained a new lease on life, based on a Wall Street analyst’s new report, cited by AppleInsider.com.

Micro-wireless devices slated for surgery

In the not-too-distant future, your surgeon may be someone who — instead of wielding a scalpel — injects you with a flock of dust-sized wireless devices that grab and remove infected or damaged tissue in response to chemical signals.

Microsoft's mobile task: creating a browser you can love

With the pending 2009 release of Internet Explorer Mobile 6, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/?tnav=_l320_t13_s">Microsoft</a> is making a major change in its approach to the mobile Web. And it's about time, according to some.

IT struggles to close the cellphone gap

For a concept that's remarkably easy to reduce to a sound bite (&quot;fixed-mobile convergence&quot;, or FMC for short) , bridging the gap between cellular phones and enterprise networks remains stubbornly hard to achieve.

Nokia's N97 touted as most powerful smartphone

Nokia last week unveiled its high-end N97 3G smartphone, combining a touchscreen with a tilted 3.5-inch display, a full QWERTY keyboard, and a straight-up challenger to Apple&#8217;s trend-setting iPhone.

Four steps to take control of your mobile devices

Increasingly, companies want to give mobile or field-based employees direct, instant access to critical corporate applications previously accessible only from a desktop. To do so, existing security, authentication and management infrastructures have to be extended and adapted so that mobile devices, along with their data and wireless connectivity, are managed as surely and fully as desktop PCs.

Mesh standard gets boost from OLPC, open source

The proposed IEEE wireless LAN mesh specification is already getting some traction, though still over 18 months from final ratification, thanks to early experimentation by the One Laptop Per Child Foundation and a recently launched open source project.

Universities build open-source enterprise applications

A group of US universities is blazing a new path in open source software. They're building a set of enterprise applications -- the big, important, mission-critical ones that have long been the exclusive domain of software companies such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft.

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