Corporate wireless: freedom and dangers

Mercury News is reporting that Wireless Switch makers are thriving, and gearing up to go public. While that may be a scary scenerio for the consumers of such wireless gear, it means that wireless is soon going to dominate the LANs and WANs in the office working environment.

Security has been the missing link that kept corporations from buying into WLANs, however that same apprehension is creating a store-bought WLAN culture, and that is sure to spill a few company secrets.)

Nokia wants more of the pie

According to Reuters, Nokia's per-user revenues is about $55. Nextel's $70 per user. So, Nokia says
it'll borrow Nextel's walkie-talkie feature and provide faster internet by installing EDGE and 3G technology on its mobile network network. When? Possibly mid 2004.  Big deal. 
(News)

Microsoft fights spammers

Fifteen lawsuits, two billion spams.  Microsoft, Yahoo, EarthLink and
America Online agreed to cooperate to solve some of the technical issues
associated with spam.  (News)