Posts with keyword: wifi

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WiFi on UTA Busses

Mon Jun 11 13:28:00 2007

The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) is experimenting with WiFi on busses. The move is an effort to attract riders. It seems to be working: "Free Wireless Access keeps me riding the bus," a survey respondent said. "Though driving to work would get me faster, wireless access is an incentive to me to stay off of the road. This is the single best thing about riding the bus. Keep it UP!! Please!!!" From Salt Lake Tribune - UTA plan will let riders surf Web while they rideReferenced Mon Jun 11 2007 13:23:23 GMT-0600 (MDT) I suggested a similar move for
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WiFi With Coconut Flavor

Fri Sep 1 10:21:00 2006

I found a cool little application for seeing what WiFi hotspots are available in OSX. Of course, you can keep checking the airport menu, but that won't tell you at a glance which are open and which aren't. Coconut WiFi puts a familiar green, yellow, or red indicator bubble in the menu bar to indicate what's available. You can even see a count of open networks. Very handy.
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Reputation and Wi-Fi

Tue Jun 20 06:02:00 2006

I'm sitting in the Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School right now waiting for day two of the Berkman identity Mashup to begin. I missed yesterday because I wasn't willing to fly out on Father's Day. My panel in identity brokers will be at 9am. As I got here and opened up my laptop, I signed into the Harvard wi-fi network. They allow temporary guest logins; you have to provide an email and telephone number. I don't know what keeps people from just giving them dummy data. Probably nothing. I was thinking, however, that you could use a reputation
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IHC WiFi

Mon Apr 17 14:40:00 2006

My wife's having some minor outpatient surgery done today, so I've been at the hospital, waiting... To my pleasant surprise, I found that they have a public WiFi hotspot. They seem to be blocking quite a few ports, which is odd since I assume this is outside their firewall. But hey, I'll take what I can get.
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