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23 Sep, 2008

Business use of Wi-Fi grows 46% in one year

Posted by: Esme Vos In: Technology

iPass says that global business use of Wi-Fi on the iPass roaming network grew 46% between 2007 and 2008. In addition 3G data use in the US increased by 59% between Q2 2007 and Q2 2008.
For the first time, in the first half of 2008 European business use of Wi-Fi exceeded that of the US; [...]

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05 Sep, 2008

Why can’t printers look as good as this one?

Posted by: Esme Vos In: Design| Gadgets

Is there a reason why nearly every printer on the market today is unbearably ugly? When I saw this Epson Artisan 300 reviewed in the New York Times, I thought, I must have that.

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I just posted a long essay and video of Judy Estrin, former CTO of Cisco, on how the quick-buck, pump and dump mentality in the US is destroying innovation and resulting in lousy service (not to mention long term market share decline).
Go to Muniwireless to read my post.

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