WiFi
I’ve been using Devicescape for a while now on my Nokia E51 and it dramatically improves the WiFi user experience. So what is Devicescape? It’s a free application that runs on your mobile device and automatically logs you in to WiFi networks without the need to enter ID and security credentials each time. This includes [...]
Continue ReadingMobile Industry Review reader Chris knocked me this news over this morning. He was checking out a story on ISP Review about St Pancras Station’s new free WiFi offering. It’s one of the key London stations now that the EuroStar terminal is based there.
The St Pancras website carries this info:
Right on!
The back [...]
Regular reader, MarkW knocked me over this email on the subject of routers and USB dongle backup support.
Hope you’re well. Great stuff going on at SMSTextNews. Still enjoying it hugely. Love the vodcast (is that the right word?!).
Just wanted to flag up something I stumbled across while looking for a new router which might appeal [...]
I want WiFi, like right now.
I’m sitting here testing out a Nokia E66 (expect the review later this week), and I’m looking at the Maps function, and amusing myself at having Facebook on my phone. And I’m angry, at two things; that poor excuse of “speed”, and the ridiculousness of the cost.
I would have used [...]
Ahh it’s been a while coming. I’ve been waiting for this. I’m a particular fan of the Pret A Manger sandwich shops.
Always dependable, always fresh and numerous, particularly across the city of London here in the UK.
I was in their shop munching away yesterday when I noticed they had a little sign on [...]
How many downloads from the new Apple App Store might have happened since it launched late last week?
10,000?
100,000?
1,000,000
Actually, it’s none of the above. We got news this morning that iPhone and iPod Touch users have already downloaded over 10 million apps.
Whilst Apple hasn’t stated just what proportion of this 10m downloads are made up from [...]
This poster is advertised at Liverpool Street Station as people come out of the underground (’the subway’). I like seeing proprietors advertising free WiFi - I think it’s a boon for many. I actually filled out a survey with the McDonalds system, powered by The Cloud - I congratulated them for launching the [...]
Continue ReadingAlltel Wireless has announced that it has signed a deal with Boingo Wireless that will allow anyone to access to its more than 25,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in the US.
The deal with Boingo means that you can sign in and pay for usage without having to have a contract with Alltel. The rates are $19.99 for [...]
I was walking past the McDonalds in Oxford Street, at the Oxford Circus, when I saw a ‘Free WiFi’ sticker. I’ve walked by a few other restaurants recently and been surprised by the amount of folk sat in there munching away on a Big Mac with their laptops out, browsing the web, clearly using [...]
Continue ReadingAnnounced today, the newest release of Truphone - the VoIP solution for S60 handsets (iPhone is planned) Ewan discussed recently - has added an important feature to it’s existing WiFi-based features… routing calls over the mobile network itself via a local dial-in number or via a call-back mechanism. This allows people out of range [...]
Continue ReadingANARCHY!
ANARCHY!
Yes! I am now officially never using a wireless hotspot again. Not unless I have a stupidly crazy business critical need to do so.
I am sat in the M&S Moto service station outside Reading (that’s pronounced “Redding” for our international users, not ‘Reading’ as in “I’m reading a book”). I am [...]
I’ve been playing with WalkingHotspot. Does what it says on the tin. Works with Windows Mobile and Symbian devices.
Continue ReadingFollowing on from my MISERABLE experience in Starbucks this morning where my US sodding WiFi account wouldn’t work, I have NO PLEASURE in reporting that T-Mobile UK WiFi reckons that an international mobile phone number looks like this:
00447940123456
I kid you not. I found this when I was signing up for a 24 hour [...]
Now and again, the T-Mobile hotspot service in Starbucks have saved my bacon. I can remember dashing down various suburban high streets in search of a Starbucks to get internet access to change or update something for a screaming client.
I decided to take a break today and go and work from a Starbucks. [...]
I’m leaving San Francisco shortly to return to the delights of ridiculously fast internet in London.
You’d think that the City By The Bay — the biggest city in Silicon Valley — would have uber fast internet everywhere.
Unfortunately not. Not in the sodding Radisson at Fisherman’s Wharf. Don’t ever stay here if you’re [...]
I took a photo of the little sign in my hotel room about the (ultra slow) internet connection:
They can’t even spell laptop correctly (first paragraph, 3rd line down).
I think, later on, I will phone that support line and see what they have to say for themselves.
The people behind it? LodgeNet. You’d think [...]
I breathe a sigh of relief, I can tell you, when I eventually find the proper Starbucks.
I have been without business critical internet since Saturday. Being a blogger more or less full time, I need to have internet to do business. And the slower the internet speed is, the slower I do business [...]
I’m in a hotel — the Radisson at Fisherman’s Wharf — in San Francisco at the moment. On the web, when I booked it, it said ‘complimentary WiFi’.
The internet is, indeed, complimentary. It’s a good signal too.
But it’s shit-slow. Ultra shit slow. 10k/second throughput. I get a better [...]
I notice that everyone and their dog in the mainstream media is getting stuck into British Airways and their teething troubles at their all new Terminal 5 (Greenpeace were there, live yesterday). Well while that’s going on, I bring you news, courtesy of StrategyEye, that they’re offering free WiFi via BT Openzone in the 6 [...]
Continue ReadingI’ve just managed to make it through the Spanish sign-up for WiFi here in Barcelona Airport. Whilst I managed to get through it, I could have made everything that bit easier if I had an account with an international wifi service.
I’ve got an account with T-Mobile Wireless, BT Openzone, The Cloud WiFi… and I [...]
The chaps at Moovera have been busy. Very busy. Fresh from kitting out services for both Stagecoach (Oxford to London) and National Express (Cambridge to London) with WiFi, they’ve just gone live with free WiFi on the First Cymru Shuttle100 bus service between Swansea and Cardiff.
Kudos to First Group, the owners of First [...]
My grandmother lives in Renfrew, Scotland.
Renfrew is distinguished not only by a huge amount of history and a lot of ye olde Scottish architecture, but also by the fact that it’s the nearest ‘town’ for Glasgow Airport. Renfrew, more or less, *is* Glasgow Airport.
So this makes visiting Gran relatively straight forward, provided [...]
Do you remember back in October last year, Starbucks tested free WiFi in 1,000 Starbucks across California? (Here’s our coverage of that)
Well, I was gratified to read that AT&T customers are to get free WiFI at Starbucks across America later this year. I suspected that this will be a crowd-pleaser for Apple [...]
With Orb running up to 5 million users, I wanted to give you an idea of why so many are starting to realize the value in media being served from the cloud, such as Orb does, versus locally stored data. I’ve been an Orb, er, member for a long time, but never quite got it [...]
Continue ReadingDevicescape just announced the availability of v2.0 of its hotspot managing application for Windows computers and S60v3 handsets, with a Windows Mobile version coming soon. Devicescape is a free service and application that helps you discreetly manage hotspots. It features a web interface, so that you can enter your known hotspots in advance (including protected [...]
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