Telecom and Wireless


Recent Telecom and Wireless Articles

Meet Glenn Weadock

By David Batstone |  Mar 1, 2000

Meet Glenn Weadock, an inc.com Information Technology mentor.  Read more


Cheap Talk

By Rachael King |  Mar 1, 2000

What your phone company won't tell you: New Web sites can ferret out the cheapest rates for long-distance and wireless service. I Inc. Techn...  Read more


Look Who's Talking

By Cary Lu |  Mar 1, 2000

Inc. classic by Internet marketing expert Jim Sterne.  Read more


Protect Your Data from Prying Eyes

By Lise Pettigrew |  Mar 1, 2000

An interview with Ernest Hernandez, an internal information security consultant with Dow Chemical, about encrypting sensitive files on your notebook computer.  Read more


Lock Down Your Laptop

By Fredrick Marckini |  Mar 1, 2000

Low-tech ways to protect your laptop computer from would-be thieves.  Read more


Finding Electrical Outlets in an Airport

By Lise Pettigrew |  Mar 1, 2000

Want to get some work done during a layover, but can't find a place to plug in your notebook computer? Fellow road warriors share tips and tricks for hunting...  Read more


Powering Up Overseas

By Lane McCulloch |  Mar 1, 2000

A review of a Web site that provides international travelers with essential information about phone lines and electrical plug adapters.  Read more


Extending the Life of Your Laptop Battery

By Lane McCulloch |  Mar 1, 2000

Don't let your laptop batteries run down at inopportune times. Try these tips for maximizing your batteries' life.  Read more


iPass Provides Worldwide Internet Access

By Lane McCulloch |  Mar 1, 2000

iPass's network of small, local ISPs helps you log on to the Internet no matter how far you are from home ? using a local number.  Read more


How to Use an Acoustic Coupler

By Lise Pettigrew |  Mar 1, 2000

Acoustic couplers may be ugly, but they can connect you to the Internet or your network from any country in the world. Here's how to use one.  Read more


Myth 3: Smart Money Makes You Smart

By Mike Hofman |  Feb 1, 2000

Think any Internet start-up can get venture capital? Not true. Entrepreneur Cliff Young had to grow his company before the VCs came calling.  Read more


While You Were Out

By Mie-Yun Lee |  Dec 1, 1998

Here's how two companies purchased their voice-mail systems. Includes the options they faced, the cost of each system, and technical glitches that arose duri...  Read more


Inner Beauties

By Emily Esterson |  Dec 1, 1998

Here's how Children's Orchard, a franchiser of children's discount stores, uses an intranet to alert franchisees to news about new products and unite them un...  Read more


Just the Fax

By Gerard J. Holzmann |  Sep 15, 1998

Believe it or not, today's fax machine isn't a new technology. The first faxes traveled electronically over telegraph wires more than a century ago.  Read more


Chatter Box

By Ben Garber |  Mar 15, 1998

A product review of Concero Switchboard, a device promising switchboard and remote-dial capabilities for small and home-based businesses.  Read more


" Face-to-Face, Almost"

Jan 1, 1998

Teleconferencing has come way down in price, and is almost as good as being there.  Read more


Push 'Em Back

By David B. Sicilia |  Sep 15, 1997

A look at the early history of pushtechnology that started with stock market ticker tape machines.  Read more


How the West Was Wired

By David B. Sicilia |  Jun 15, 1997

A look at how Great Plains farmers used barbed-wire fences to transmit telephone calls.  Read more


Lives of a Cell

By Bob Lochte |  Dec 15, 1996

The story of a man who invented the precursor to the cell phone, and suffered greatly because of his invention.  Read more


The Missing Link

By David Abrahamson |  Dec 15, 1996

A major in the U.S. Army reviews a wireless personal digital assistant.  Read more


All Hooked Up and No One to Show

By Sarah Schafer |  Mar 15, 1996

A vice-president explains how videoconferencing only works if the people you do business with have the equipment.  Read more


Inc. Technology Index

By Inc. staff |  Dec 15, 1995

Some data about the number of computers, types of software, and modem speeds small businesses are using.  Read more


Resource: Who Needs EDI?

By Phaedra Hise |  Oct 1, 1995

A review of a book that details what small businesses need to learn about electronic data interchange technologies.  Read more


Calling All Messages

By Cary Lu |  Jun 15, 1995

A past Inc. technology editor tells how soon you'll be able to retrieve voice mail, E-mail and faxes from your PC.  Read more


What's Next: Paving the Information Highway

By Andrew S. Grove |  Jun 15, 1994

A high-tech expert predicts that the next wave in high-tech innovation will be in networks and what they will look like.  Read more