Client Boingo received high praise from the folks at ZDNET today. In a post about trying out the service, Dennis Howlett, tabs Boingo as “a traveler’s lifesaver” saying that it is “an easy way to avoid all those ludicrous $X per day charges that hotels and airport operators try to gouge out of you when … Read more
ZDNet’s SOHO Networking writer Sean Portnoy has taken a good look at two of the applications that make it easier for you to tether a laptop to your cell phone to get 3G connectivity. He profiles my favorite, JoikuSpot, and a second product called the Walking HotSpot from Taproot Software. Joiku has been a lifesaver … Read more
Jonathan Greene reports his hotel bandwidth is quite poor. He’s staying at the Sheraton Harbor Island in San Diego for the Demo 2008 Conference. This is a hotel that is located directly across the street from the San Diego Airport and is very close to one of the main fiber rings in San Diego. Access … Read more
For those of you who have discovered just how wonderful those new Asus EEE PCs are as laptop substitutes but wanted to make them connect with all the latest and greatest data cards (like the Novatel Merlin MC950D which I use, but didn’t want to learn how to deal with Linux OS, nor buy the … Read more
Today I mashed up the recently updated Boingo Mobile client (which works on Nokia N and E series phones, the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet and Window Mobile devices) on my Nokia E71 Smartphone (North American Edition) from inside my hotel room. The hotel is powered by iBahn, one of the Boingo roaming partners. I grabbed … Read more
David Aiello has a great solution to those of you who have a cell phone and a laptop and want to stay connected. It’s called tethering, and with the Nokia E71 it’s been made easier by JoikuSpot, a Working Anywhere Approved solution. Why is this important? Simple. When you don’t have WiFi nearby you can … Read more
Rob Evans, a highly respected exIBMer, who now is the UK Telecoms Sourcing Manager for the Orange FT Group in the UK. has been writing a series of posts describing how client Truphone has been saving the day for him, on his blog called Rob’s Digital Life. His most recent one talks about being somewhere … Read more
For those cheapskates out there who just can’t afford a WiFi/Hotspot account from AT&T, T-Mobile or Boingo (to be transparent my agency represents Boingo) you can take the advice of Popular Mechanics and find some airports offering WiFi for free. You can also learn about some cool apps that make it easy to find the … Read more
Ok, so I’m a gadget geek. I love bright, shiny and new my pal James Body of Truphone likes to say. So today I’m going to take you through some essentials that you can’t be without when you’re on the road. Making the Room Wireless WiFi Travel Router-The make and model doesn’t really matter. I … Read more
Last week while I was in Philadelphia and Chicago, my staff, led by Danielle Ross and Cheryl Cink, managed an event for our client Nokia in San Francisco. Intercontinental San Francisco GM Peter Koehler knows how to run a hotel there. He’s much like pal and hotel mentor to me, Steve Pagano, now at the … Read more
