Posts Tagged ‘wifi’

Extra leg room? Inflight-Internet?

photo credit: brixton The number of optional extras that airlines can bolt on to your flight has been increased today. American Airlines (in the US) has unveiled their new inflight broadband service. Yes, they’ve been talking about it for a while now, but today it is a reality. The service...

How to upset a customer

What do you think is a best way to disappoint a customer? I’m sure you can come up with a big list, but right there at the top is promising something and not delivering. I arrived at the airport this morning nice and early because I knew they had free...

FON-enabled highrise buildings

Reading the FON Blog, I’m seeing that they have finally managed to deploy FON across an entire high-rise building, in the Continental Diamond Plaza in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. If you’ve never come across FON before, it’s a WiFi community where users share their Wifi, in exchange for free Wifi...

Turn your phone into a WiFi hotspot

Here’s a cool idea. Thanks to new software from Tap Root Systems, you can now turn your phone into a Wifi hotpot, assuming you have the right model of phone and a phone that supports 3G and has WiFi capabilities. You end up using your phone as a proxy sharing...

FONtastic voyage

I had blogged about FON more than a year ago and it’s great to see them grow from strength to strength. Today they’re in the news together with BT announcing a joint venture in a bid to penetrate the UK market. The details of the deal are still a bit...

Campaign for Fair WiFi

I’ve just come across an initiative by Silicon.com to try and pressure hotel owners to push down the price of WiFi services they offer. Most hotels in the UK treat WiFi as a commodity and charge ridiculous rates for usage .. £20 an hour is not uncommon. The campaign seems...

iPhone is finally here

So, the iPhone has hit the market and looks like the gadget to have. There has been lots of talk as to what it could look like (check out the iPhone Concept Blog) but we finally get to feast our eyes on the real thing! So, what does it consist...

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