Lots of WiFi related news, including how technology and culture have turned cafes into Zombie Cafes, the unpleasantness of Starbucks, the delights of free WiFi in Bali: A reflection on Starbucks in the US: lack of cafe culture and the role of WiFi Travels with an iPod Touch: Free WiFi experience in Asia
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WiFi news: Starbucks, zombie cafes, free WiFi in Asia and more
Posted: 30 September 2009 in Technology, Travel0
Do PR people need to take a basic English writing course or are they just dishonest?
Posted: 5 February 2009 in Current events, TechnologyI have had it up to here with misleading press releases. I received a press release that read: “XYZ Wireless, one of the nation’s largest wireless broadband operators, has just launched service in . . . ” What do you conclude when you read the line “one of the nation’s largest wireless broadband operators”? When [...]
Find out if your ISP is blocking or degrading P2P (Bittorrent) traffic with a simple tool called Glasnost and also find out your true broadband connection speed: http://www.muniwireless.com/2009/01/28/find-out-if-your-isp-is-a-bad-isp-with-glasnost/
Phishers are active on Google Calendar. I opened my Calendar today to find an entry purporting to be from Google Customer Care. It read: “THIS Email is from Gmail Customer Care and we are sending it to every Gmail Email User Accounts Owner for safety. we are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of [...]
Posts of the week
Posted: 9 January 2009 in Technology, TravelTags: Apple, iphone, ryokans, san francisco
Pagolac: delicious inexpensive Vietnamese food in downtown San Francisco Mapplr’s favorite ryokans in Japan Macworld: traditional conference trade show format is dead, what’s next? Will VC funds produce the next Madoff? No Exit: venture capital firms struggle to sell startups Make Skype calls from your iPhone and iPod Touch via Truphone
