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I was in San Jose airport last week waiting to fly home and was told there was free wifi.  I had a few hours to kill and I went to the Bits & Bytes bar, plopped down ordered a Tuna sandwich and a beer expecting to spend a few hours working.  Well, low and behold, […]

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I have used the free wifi in Long Beach, Ca Airport in the past and it was acceptable, but today it’s a no go.  I was not even able to test the speed.  I was expecting to get some work done while waiting in the terminal for my JetBlue flight to San Jose and I […]

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Wow, one of my favorite companies, that I think has enormous potential just took a huge step. I think it’s a good direction, maybe not where I was hoping but still a good direction.
Truphone just launched 1.5cents to the US and Canada. They are offering a monthly plan of $15/month for 1,000 minutes. […]

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My good friends over at Truphone have been working very hard lately to bring the very first and as far as I know ONLY iPhone VOIP application (download it from this link, it will open iTunes). I have been a user of Truphone for a few years now it seems like they are always […]

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Starbucks has now started offering 2 free hours of AT&T wifi for customers spending $5 or more or customers who have an activated gift card. I am very excited about this because I have a Starbucks a few hundred yards from my front door and think I will test the wifi sometime in the […]

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WiNetworks is a WiMax vendor to the operators. They actually create the base stations for the operators. WiMax is (simply put) long distance WiFi, this means that all over a given area you can use your WiFi enabled device. Never having to look for a hotspot because the whole region is a […]

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