Editor's Corner

 

Friends in new places
Control. According to studies (and plenty of anecdotal evidence), it's the thing we want most in our business and private lives. Some of the latest developments we see this week promise more control, but from different directions. From one direction, we have a demonstration of an amazingly small RFID chip that promises the sort of location and control that James Bond could only dream of. From the other direction comes an industrial coating that stops RF energy in its tracks, creating the sort of radio-free zone that previously required a Faraday cage. Taken with the rest of the news, these developments show that we're soon going to be able to tailor wireless applications to meet physical plant requirements in the same way we've tailored structured cable in the past. It makes wireless more secure, more usable, and far more valuable to the enterprise. -Curtis