Posts Tagged ‘WiFi Technology’

Apr
28/09

Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 November 2009 12:56
Written by Dominic Reid
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

I have just heard that BT has bought out many of T-Mobiles wifi hotspots with the aim of keeping the prices high. Not a very enlightened approach to giving access to mobile computing… (more…)

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Feb
09/09

Back to the source

Last Updated on Sunday, 25 July 2010 02:08
Written by Dominic Reid
Monday, February 9th, 2009

It was around 12 years ago that I saw a Norwegian feller on the beach in Tioman with a laptop. When I asked him what he was doing, he told me he was connected to the web via a sat phone and that he was working.

I decided that if this woas work then I wanted to get involved, so I learned how to use computers and got busy.

I am now sitting on the same beach in Tioman, with my laptop connected to the internet and I’m not working too hard.

It feels like I have come full circle, back to the source.

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Tags: Asia, Malaysia, Remote Working, Travel Blog, WiFi Technology | Posted under Remote Working, Travel Blog |

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Aug
31/06

Norwich Gets Free WiFi

Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 November 2009 11:15
Written by Dominic Reid
Thursday, August 31st, 2006

The city of Norwich has become Britainâ€™s largest open network. You can login within a 4km radius of county hall, which has a a “pre WiMax” 5.8GHz connection sitting on top. Gosh.

So, is Norwich a hotbed of Gypsy activity, with little tinkers tappety tapping away in the rural east of Britain?

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Tags: Cyber Gypsy Gear, Cyber Spaces, Remote Working, WiFi Technology | Posted under Cyber Gypsy Gear, Remote Working, Reviews |

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Aug
20/06

Google’s neighbourhood, one big WiFi network!

Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 November 2009 11:05
Written by Dominic Reid
Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Last week Google offered to make it’s entire hometown one big WiFi network

Mountain View, California, will then be the biggest community in the US with free WiFi.

About 72,000 people live in Mountain View, an 11 square mile city 35 miles south of San Francisco.

companies like Google and VeriSign are based in Mountainview, so during the day the population can rise above 100,000

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