Can Someone Find The FON

Since December I’ve now been in Madrid, Barcelona, London and Paris and as much as I try to find a FON, none of them seem to be anywhere. I don’t mean casually traveling through, but spending enough time to feel like a resident or at least a semi-resident. I mean, I wander the streets, dine … Read more

Yup, That Was Me

Esme Vos, Ms. Muni Wireless, has chronicled, a mutual experience earlier today that we had. Basically, a properly engineered WiFi network, with proper backhaul is as good as a mobile network. Well at least today it was.

WiMax Report Gets Updated

Pal Paul Kapustka has updated his killer report on the state of WiMax to include analysis of the post sale of Clearwire Sprint and the roll-up with the cablecos Motorola and Google. Even if you read the original, you’ll want to read the new one.

Only the Lord Saves More Than Max…..

Taking a page out of my roots in hockey and the famous line in Philadelphia that went like this: “Only the Lord Saves More Than Bernie Parent” I couldn’t resist the comparison to my good friend Pat Phelan’s company, MaxRoam, when I read his post today about just how much money MaxRoam customers are saving. … Read more

Talkify Time

Alec Saunders, client at iotum, friend and fellow wine lover has one of the best posts he’s written since the Voice 2.0 Manifesto on his blog today. It clearly lays out a roadmap that tells me the biggest smashup that is coming is the “TALKIFICATION of the Web”, and how it will come to be. … Read more

Broadband Wanted In The Air

If this doesn’t tell you that Boeing blew it by being premature and pulling out of the flying WiFi space over a year ago, nothing proves it better. A survey by BarclayCard shows that over fifty percent of the business travel market want Internet connectivity on the go and in the air, at least with … Read more

Broadband Wanted In The Air

If this doesn’t tell you that Boeing blew it by being premature and pulling out of the flying WiFi space over a year ago, nothing proves it better. A survey by BarclayCard shows that over fifty percent of the business travel market want Internet connectivity on the go and in the air, at least with … Read more

OOOH—This is Hot

Looks like Dell is jumping into the same market as the Asus eee PC with an ultra mini notebook PC. I already have the Asus eee PC and the ultra sweet Asus 900 that was featured in Joanna Sterns’ Laptop Magazine story. The neat thing about the eee PC/UMPC type devices is size, weight and … Read more

Tungle In The Financial Times

Scheduling meetings is much easier, now that Tungle, an agency client, has released their Blackberry client. But don’t take my word for it. Take global tech journalist Paul Taylor’s.  Paul compared the various online scheduling services out there and Tungle came out on top.