March 18, 2003

t’s tempting to think that we might be at or near the peak of the curve for wireless device proliferation, but that’s nowhere near the truth. Ken Dulaney, vice president

eaching critical mass for wireless in the enterprise has been a long time coming. Interest in and reliance on wireless technology has crept steadily ahead, but for several years now,

f 802.11 wireless LANs promise to untether corporate users from their wired network connections, then Voice over Wireless IP (VoWIP) promises to free them from their telephone handsets. VoWIP is

he job ahead of creating new wireless applications and extending traditional desktop applications to mobile devices is somewhat ominous, but the good news, according to Gartner Research Analyst Theresa Lanowitz,

here’s no lack of innovation going on in the wireless area and the technology is maturing fast. But still, the vast majority of developers have avoided taking the wireless plunge.