wi fi in comment and analysis
Inbox: iPhone ad, red boxes, wi-fi piggybacking, sci-fi thinking
Comment Given that they already have a phone line installed, would it be a crazy idea to convert some of them into public wi-fi hotspots? Wireless broadband users are failing to secure their connections against people who hijack wi-fi hotspots for their... [04 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction
Comment Conceived in a traffic jam on Interstate 80, written the next day in a coffee shop at Lake Tahoe CA and sent via a free wi-fi service. I can't remember the moment or place when my interest in science fiction was first ignited. [28 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Bordering on stupidity
Comment Written in a coffee shop in Mountain View CA and dispatched the next day from a free wi-fi service in the hotel. What could be easier? Take that old paper passport and add some electronics to turn it into a super-secure means of ID and certification. [21 Aug 2008]
Is BlackBerry taking a leaf out of Apple's book?
Comment Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors If you thought iPhone nano rumours were hard to avoid, consider the myriad BlackBerry incarnations haunting cyberspace. First up the BlackBerry KickStart. Leaked images of this frankly ugly flip phone surfaced... [14 Aug 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time to declare war on the business
Comment Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors We've got a long list of forbidden words here at silicon.com. Words that, should they appear in a reporter's copy, will result in that unlucky scribe taking responsibility for making tea for the team until they... [07 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New niche for 3G?
Comment So after more than a decade dominated by easy-to-find free wi-fi access in the US, I now find myself in countries where I have to search out low-cost links. The economic downturn and collapse of the dollar have resulted in a lot of my business... [05 Aug 2008]
Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment Passengers have plenty of complaints: the aerobridges don't work, the wi-fi goes on and off, and the lavatories smell. But locating it in a near wilderness without a decent road was not a great start, says Saritha Rai. [30 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Out of range?
Comment Unfortunately, the location was at a marina some 500 metres from the nearest wi-fi hotspot and no 3G signal was visible. In my lab I looked out a couple of old wireless routers and a wi-fi extender plus a wi-fi dongle. [15 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design
Comment Written on the flight back to London and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in the lounge at Heathrow later the same day. We all know it when we see it and we can get irritated when it's absent. Good design is one of those abstract things that are... [09 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side weird uses for an iPod hard drive disasters silicon.com is 10 this week. That's a grand old age for a publication launched at the height of the dot-com madness, says Julian Goldsmith. [07 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up The future is wi-fi-equipped public conveniences with a coffee machine. Good luck, if the British summer is anything to go by your portable device of choice will not only need to be wi-fi enabled but waterproof as well. [20 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Prison IT, iPhone wi-fi, and the clock ticking on XP...
Comment Yeah, blame the iPhone not the other two billion wi-fi-enabled phones? Get a clue.if there is an inherent flaw it affects all wi-fi-enabled devices. Any wi-fi risk affects all devices. Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his... [19 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jelly
Comment Written in a London coffee shop with the five-bar signal problem and dispatched via a free wi-fi node later the same day. You know how it is: you're in a coffee shop working online and using the free wi-fi service. [13 Jun 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment The ubiquitous wi-fi hotspot, present in hotels, airports and coffee shops the world over, has now been complemented by another array of mobile services. Azadar Shah, director at remote access firm iPass, says IT departments have become aware of... [12 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Healthy mobility
Comment Written on a rainy summer afternoon just four miles from my home in a local café with a free wi-fi service. At a recent conference I was describing how mobile devices would become even more indispensable if fitted with an accelerometer and other... [10 Jun 2008]
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