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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up From a dangerous lack of privacy to difficult and absurd working environments, business travellers are often put in impossible positions as they try to carry out their professional role. You may not get an expensive luke-warm cup of coffee... [20 Jun 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment High-speed wireless networks are meant to make life easier for business travellers. In fact, the biggest challenge for business travellers is not finding a network connection but the complexity arising from having multiple modems, logons and... [12 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: What is city-wide wi-fi?
Comment In not wholly-unrelated news, I'd also like to mention here that atlarge.com - the online service run by the silicon.com team which allows business travellers to read and write about connectivity at the world's airports - now comes with a... [17 Jul 2007]
Connectivity blues ground business travellers
News Despite the seemingly unstoppable rise of wi-fi hotspots in coffee shops, airports, metropolitan areas and even on-board trains, the annual silicon.com Business Traveller Survey found the number of travellers who "sometimes" have difficulty... [29 Mar 2007]
Wi-fi: How do you eat yours?
News The findings from iPass, based on its own user-base, reveal the extent to which people now rely on wi-fi - especially the world's population of business travellers accessing wi-fi in hotels and airports. [06 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: You're not travelling, you're atlarge.com
Comment These range from uber-travellers - such as our columnist Peter Cochrane - to those of us who go through the usual slog of planes, trains and automobiles, not to mention hotels, restaurants, cafés and other public spaces. [19 Dec 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A crack in the wi-fi stupidity dam?
Comment And now silicon has set up a new website for all of us business travellers to share this information with each other - it's called atlarge.com. I use the chain in London for stopovers, coffee, meetings, whatever. [05 Dec 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.11.06
Round-Up Of course, as high-tech business travellers go Bond is pretty much 'the Daddy'. The two-year study - that's right, it took two years - observed men and women in various public locations including restaurants, bars and coffee shops… [17 Nov 2006]
"How Orwellian can you get?" - RFID for air travellers
News A plan to tag air travellers with RFID chips to improve airport security by monitoring passengers as they kill time after check-in in airport coffee shops and departure lounges has been slammed by silicon.com readers as "another ill thought out... [17 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Finding wi-fi in the unlikeliest of places
Comment Many used to doubt wi-fi would be everywhere for business travellers - well now it seems to me it most certainly is. All of this was at very reasonable prices or for free with a coffee or meal. I'm in a very Turkish restaurant and bar on the... [12 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The view from China
Comment I'm having a coffee at a service station on the M25 where a contingent of UK army troops in desert kit have swollen the population of travellers. I look around; the irony of the scene seems to have been lost on the other travellers, so I just smile... [05 May 2005]
Business travellers 'have laptop, will surf'
News Almost two thirds of business travellers will connect to the internet using their own laptop, with more than a fifth connecting independent of any external means - using their own data card. But a fifth of business travellers' first point of... [19 Apr 2005]
Wireless: The new hotspot for VoIP
Comment Voice over IP is likely to become particularly useful for business travellers. Booting up a soft phone on a PC in a coffee shop when you're in your home country won't save a great deal. Just as voice over IP is becoming widely used over wired... [18 Jan 2005]
Leader: Where best to get your laptop nicked
Leader Many train lines appear to be doing what they can to discourage travellers from using their mobile phones in and around the stations because such spots have become targets for mobile phone thieves. Then there is the irony, as expressed before, that... [07 Sep 2004]
Texaco unveils petrol station hot-spot pit stops
News Texaco estimates that there are between three and five million business travellers on the roads every day and hopes to tap the motorist market for remote access to corporate networks, mobile email and internet access. [22 Apr 2004]
