WIRELESS HEADACHES

The Wall Street Journal wrote an article last month about wireless networks, expressing a sentiment many of you have probably felt – namely, they’re a pain in the neck. It doesn’t help that the vocabulary has gotten muddled. There are now four basic...

VERIZON BROADBAND FOR THE HOME

Broadband coverage is stalled. If you don’t have access already to DSL service or cable Internet service, there’s no reason to think it will be available tomorrow, or next year, or ever. Paul Krugman recently summarized the statistics – broadband...

NETWORK SCANNING

I have long insisted that scanners had to be tethered to a computer because it wasn’t feasible to control a scanner across a network.That began to be eroded by the floor-standing copiers that could scan sheet-fed documents at the speed of light and deposit PDFs...