Roll With The Changes in WiFi

Back in 2005 Westfield Americas announced an agreement with WFI, the company that is pretty much the Mercedes Benz of wireless deployments in the world. The agreement was for the deployment of WIFI for both the family of malls tenants as well as for folks like me who have to play bag carrier while my … Read more

Is VoIP In The Air?

Rich posts about in flight WiFi and the potential banning of VoIP on the planes. First I’m old enough to remember the GTE Airphone and actually used it a lot in the90’s, especially when they had their $1000 a year all you could talk plan. Back then I was flying about every three weeks cross … Read more

Hotels and Airports Don’t Get WiFi

I’m getting more and more convinced that airports don’t get WiFi. The idea of a blacklist of web sites that may be critical of them is hilarious. First San Diego went free, but gives such a poor experience its not worth it. Now I’m reading that hotels and airports are playing around with blacklists of … Read more

DeviceScape Scores Big With Nokia

I’ve had the good fortune to have DeviceScape on one of my panels and to get to know the company rather well thanks to their bubbly and outgoing Marketing lead Beth Rogozinski. They will be returning to a panel I’m moderating at MuniWireless later this month, so the news about their relationshp with Blogger Relations … Read more

Why FON Has Some Acceptance Problems

Glenn at WiFi Net News posts about FON and some of the issues he has with the social WiFi service that says “you share me your’s and I’ll share you mine.” On paper the concept is very good, but in reality broadband varies by installation and FON is thus a “free and best efforts” type … Read more

Why Some Innovate And Die

The Purple Wonder himself, Mr. VON, has a very good post about innovation. But Jeff, please don’t think you are alone in this battle. Others of us like David Beckemeyer (PhoneGnome), Alec Saunders (iotum), Jeff Bonforte (Yahoo), Craig Walker (GrandCentral), Luca (Abbeynet), Michael Robertson (SIPPhone), Jim Tobin (Comcast), Jeff Black and John Todd (TalkPlus), Surj … Read more