iPhone Owners Road Warrior Tips

The Unofficial Apple Weblog’s Aron Trimble has a series of tips that make the Apple iPhone an essential tool for the Road Warrior. I’ll add a few more apps that I like which make my road warrior like existence much easier to digest: Fight Stats–without question this helps keep track of what’s happening with your … Read more

UK Broadband Speeds Getting Faster, USA Also Seeing It Soon

The speeds for broadband connectivity in the UK are going to increase, with both Virgin and BT rolling out two different versions of high speed networks to their existing customer bases. Virgin, which uses the same approach as USA cable operators like Comcast, is going to kick speeds up from 20 megs to 50, while … Read more

WiFi on iPhone + Truphone = Huge Savings When Roaming

Ok, so to be upfront as always, we represent some of the cooler companies around. Boingo and Truphone leads that list, as both are at the forefront of technology and making things easier for the road warrior. Especially the International Road Warrior who makes lots of calls back to the USA and Canada from other … Read more

Network World Test GoBoingo and T-Mobile’s HotSpot Connection Manager

Network World, one of the enterprise markets’ favorite gateways of information, goes in depth about two applications that make it easier to get and stay connected to hotspots, Boingo’s Go Boingo for Macs and PC’s and the T-Mobile HotSpot Connection Manager which is Windows PC only for now. I have used both extensively and find … Read more

WiFi on The Water In Washington via Boingo

Last week it was airports being added by Boingo. This week they’ve added ferries and ferry terminals in Washington State. As PhoneBoy points out, the costs have been lowered and subscribers immediately gain access to the entire Boingo network around the globe. The official announcement is here while the maven of all things WiFi, Glenn … Read more

Boingo Buys OptiFi, More Consolidation of WiFi Networks

Yesterday client Boingo acquired OptiFi, another aggregator/operator of airport hotspots, much like Boingo’s Concourse Communications purchase, and their buy of Sprint’s airport hotspot division. The timing couldn’t be better as one well regarded wireless analyst firm I follow closely has indicated that the rollout of WiMax won’t be as fast as people expected, and I … Read more