Telecom and Wireless


Recent Telecom and Wireless Articles

High Concept: This Phone's for You

By Kate O'Sullivan |  Aug 1, 2002

The next great advance in wireless? One word: plastics.  Read more

IM Is Here. RU Ready 2 Try It?

By Anne Stuart |  Jul 1, 2002

Instant messages -- those cryptic little on-line conversations -- are traveling from teenagers' computers into businesses like yours.  Read more

Cost Cutting: The Money Pit

By Anne Stuart |  May 1, 2002

They're the line item from hell: telecom costs. Most companies charges have doubled while rates have actually fallen. Here's how to get a grip on them.  Read more

Special Technology Report: Inside Story

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Apr 1, 2002

These days, savvy CEOs are tapping the power of intranets and extranets to give small companies the muscle and flexibility of their big-company counterparts....  Read more

Tele-Sleuth

By Anne Stuart |  Apr 1, 2002

Here are some tried-and-true ways to find out what you're em really /em paying to stay connected -- and how to cut those co...  Read more

A Shock to the System

By Emily Esterson |  Jan 1, 2002

Doug Hyde, president and founder of Green Mountain Energy Resources, found that incorporating an extranet and data warehouse required him to relearn his own ...  Read more

Have Tech, Won't Travel

By Anne Stuart |  Jan 1, 2002

As the travel business goes bust, videoconferencing, Web-casting, and satellite services are starting to boom.  Read more

Basic Training

By Inc. staff |  Sep 1, 2001

New technology got you baffled? Our crib sheet can help.  Read more

Dedicated Hosting Essentials

By Tommy Lai |  Jul 1, 2001

If you're running an e-commerce or database-driven site, or if you need greater access to software choices and the hardware itself, you're probably shoppi...  Read more

Measuring Returns on IT Investments: Some Tools and Techniques

By Tommy Lai |  Jul 1, 2001

Laptop computers could make a sales force more productive, but they also cost more than desktop PCs. Should a company buy laptops for its salespeople? Sof...  Read more

How can my telecommuting employees safely dial into my company network?

Jul 1, 2001

Offices & Operations mentor Mie-Yun Lee responds to the following question from an inc.com user: It seems like telecommutin...  Read more

Rent a Phone, Lose a Headache

By Ron Feemster |  Jun 15, 2001

Here's how the CEO of Virtuoso Travel cuts through the tangled web of overlapping cellular networks around the world.  Read more

Rent a Phone, Lose a Headache

By Ron Feemster |  Jun 1, 2001

Here's how the CEO of Virtuoso Travel cuts through the tangled web of overlapping cellular networks around the world.  Read more

Free Hosts: What's the Catch?

By Tommy Lai |  Jun 1, 2001

Here are four major drawbacks of using a free host to serve your online business. Limited support. Your free host's primary source...  Read more

4 Web Host Warning Signs

By Angela Hammontree |  Jun 1, 2001

Given the large number of Web hosts and the fierce competition among them, Web hosting can be a tricky business. Countless small Web hosts have gon...  Read more

Are You Dedicated to Your Web Site?

By Tommy Lai |  Jun 1, 2001

Perhaps you're wondering what dedicated servers are and whether you need one. Or perhaps you already know you need a dedicated server but are stuck...  Read more

You Can Take It With You

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Jun 1, 2001

Hard-driving entrepreneurs hit the road in their high-tech mobile offices.  Read more

Things We Love: Home-Phone-Line Networking

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Jun 1, 2001

Finding his wireless local area network to be too slow and unreliable, Kurt Delsack turned to home-phone-line networking with pleasing results.  Read more

Why the E-mail Explosion Has Yet to Leave Snail Mail in the Dust

By Snow Tempest |  Apr 1, 2001

E-mail, without doubt, is the Internet' s killer app. It is among the first services users get hooked to when they log on to the Internet. During the past...  Read more

Free Hosts: 4 to Grow On

By Tommy Lai |  Apr 1, 2001

You're running a successful business and you're thinking about taking it online. Maybe you want to test the waters before shelling out large sums o...  Read more

How do I choose a phone and voice mail system?

By Ilan Mochari |  Mar 1, 2001

Offices and Operations mentor Mie-Yun Lee responds to the following question from an inc.com user: I have a small (5-person) bu...  Read more

Lining Up Telecom Online

By Sarah Fister Gale |  Nov 1, 2000

New Web sites offer to ease shoppers' search for telephone and related services. Ten CEOs check out six popular sites.  Read more

Web Awards 2000: Community

By Inc. staff |  Nov 1, 2000

These companies' extraordinary ability to link people with information has earned them the top spots in the Community category of the 2000 Inc. Web ...  Read more

Lining Up Telecom Online

By Sarah Fister Gale |  Nov 1, 2000

New Web sites offer to ease shoppers' search for telephone and related services. Ten CEOs check out six popular sites.  Read more

Around the World in 80 Seconds

By Ron Feemster |  Nov 1, 2000

To solve the problem of his customers and staff being out of sync with the home office, Andy Prada Jr. of 1st 2nd Mortgage Co. developed a unified messaging ...  Read more

Native Relations

By Jane Brower |  Oct 1, 2000

When philanthropy works, it's sort of like great-tasting health food: You're doing the right thing, but you're also enjoying it. Robert Rutherford of Nati...  Read more

Proxim's Cordless PC Networking Solution

By Keith Camp |  Oct 1, 2000

At first glance, the Proxim Symphony Cordless Networking product suite appears to leave little value-added opportunities for installers and integrators. H...  Read more

Are Your Customers Being Served?

By Srikumar S. Rao |  Sep 1, 2000

A new kind of software helps you address the concerns of both your customers and your business.  Read more

A Fertile Field for Voice Mail

By Jennifer LeClaire |  Sep 1, 2000

Voice mail is an efficient way to communicate with employees. Margaret Cook, executive director of the Assisted Reproductive Technology Program, thought i...  Read more

How can I find a reliable ISP in a country with poor infrastructure?

By Bradley D. Brown |  Jul 1, 2000

Information Technology mentor Brad Brown responds to the following question from an inc.com user: I plan to start a small busine...  Read more

Internet Appliances ? Here, There, Everywhere!

By Christi Frum |  Jul 1, 2000

New devices designed to access the Internet are popping up all over the place. Across America, tiny Net-enabled appliances are hitting the street in the p...  Read more

Great Space, Southern Exposure, Free T1

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Jun 1, 2000

A new breed of telecommunications providers is making economical Web access the next small-business perk.  Read more

One-Stop Dialing

By Rachael King |  Jun 1, 2000

Competitive local exchange carriers, a new kind of telephone company, are willing to go to great lengths to get your company's business.  Read more

Sign of the Times: Culture Gets Benched

By Mike Hofman |  Jun 1, 2000

When college dropouts Andrew Perlman and Mark Land founded Cignal Global Communications, a fiber-optic data-communications company, five years ago, they r...  Read more

Cut-Rate Collaboration

By Mary Kwak |  Jun 1, 2000

Free intranet services provide a simple way for smaller companies to communicate with employees, customers, and suppliers.  Read more