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Posts Tagged with "wireless"

Where to find free Wi-Fi

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Fans of Wi-Fi rejoice! Google, Yahoo, Microsoft (Bing), Toyota Lexus and many other companies are sponsoring free Wi-Fi in airports, on flights, and even in Times Square in New York City. I’m following the trends on MuniWireless: Free Wi-Fi in Times Square, thanks to Yahoo Free ad-supported Wi-Fi comes to airports but will it last? Free Wi-Fi has [...]

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Bill Gates wants more unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi

Saturday, March 15, 2008

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Bill Gates: “We’re hopeful that that will be made available so that Wi-Fi can explode in terms of its usage, even out into some of these less dense areas (of the United States) where distance has been a big problem for Wi-Fi.” Microsoft has been an advocate for unlicensed use of the television “white spaces” spectrum. [...]

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Japanese mobile phone etiquette, or why i-mode failed everywhere else

Saturday, March 8, 2008

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I just returned from a trip to Japan. What amazed me was that I did not hear any mobile phones ringing in subway cars or trains. Neither did I hear (or see) people talking on their phones. I was so eerily quiet. But people are using their phones — texting, reading mini-novels, playing games, looking [...]

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Free mobile calls with advertising: Blyk’s response rate 29 percent

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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I have written in the past about Blyk, a mobile virtual network operator in the UK, that offers free mobile phone calls to 16-24 year olds in exchange for receiving ads via SMS or MMS. According to this article in the The Times: The response rate to Blyk’s advertising campaigns, which take the form of text [...]

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