Hospitals are embracing a range of radio technologies to track everything from drugs to doctors with increasing accuracy. Location and identity data are fostering new efficiencies, costs savings, and redesigned workflows and business processes.

Over the next few weeks, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to make a decision that could completely change the mobile-broadband landscape in the United States for years to come.

Palm took the wraps off Palm Treo Pro, a new, and unlocked, Windows Mobile 3G smart phone, aimed directly at enterprise users.

HP’s intent to acquire wireless LAN company Colubris is one in a series of industry-consolidation moves. So who’s next? No one, if the remaining startups have their say.

The Dash Express in-car GPS navigation device’s Wi-Fi connection is easy to configure, and its Outlook and Web browser plug-in gives you two-way Internet connectivity.

With more than 50,000 tech-savvy politicians, aides, wonks, delegates and journalists descending on Denver next week for the Democratic National Convention, any network deployed at the convention site will have to be huge.

Last week’s announcement that HP intends to acquire wireless LAN company Colubris Networks gives HP a chance to become a formidable player in the enterprise WLAN market. HP has long offered its own ProCurve WLAN products integrated with its popular ProCurve Ethernet switches - a conceptually a nice idea but also a somewhat limiting one.

This year’s crop of companies focuses on voice and data convergence, spectacular technical advances in radio technology, the personalization of cellular, and what can only be called mobile spontaneity.

It’s a wireless world, some say, conveniently overlooking the giant balls of cables behind every personal computer and every server, router and printer. But many want to expand the wireless world, so let’s look at two companies doing just that.