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More on UN Wireless Conference
UN pushes Wi-Fi to bridge digital divide Another brief story about the THE WIRELESS INTERNET OPPORTUNITY FOR DEVELOPING NATIONS UN Conference.
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Bill Thompson on the dangers of WiFi hype in the Developing World
Is wi-fi good for developing nations? Bill Thompson offers an insightful look at WiFi for the developing world, based largely on the recent UN Conference on the subject. His main claim seems to be that WiFi, as with any other technology is in danger of being over-hyped by companies selling
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Wireless pocket snifer
One of the things I really like about a PDA with built-in WiFi, is that you can carry it in your pocket, and have it sniff for wireless networks. When travelling, and wanting to avoid the huge costs of cell-phone based connections, or even commercial HotSpot sertvices, this is a
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Commercial HotSpot services - a mini-survey
I just got back from a 9-day trip to Vienna. I was there visiting my grandparents, attending a few family get-togethers including grandad's 85th birthday. So since this wasn't a business trip and there were no presentations planned, I figured this would be agreat trip to
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Sue the world
Sue All The World Music Video (from the Napster Bad! Cartoon Series on Camp Chaos) If you also think the Recording Industry and Hollywood aree tripping bigtime with their suits and their suits, take a look at this parody. There's explicit language in their (dont' say I
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The Internet is Shit
The internet is shit [via Ben Hammersley]
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Quiet on multiplicity
i'm in vienna. visiting my grandparents, family, vacation. it's hot here. almost in the accra sense of the word. sweating, hanging out, WiFi'ing via metronet wireless access points in some of the nicer café's here. the problem with metronet, and many other
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New Rss 2.0 feeds
I've changed my RSS 2.0 feeds to include the entire posts instead of just excerpts, and I've adopted Brad Choates templates from here: Brad Choate: A Non-Funky MT RSS 2 Template So if you want the best feeds from this site, switch to RSS 2.
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Reboot6 revisited
Reboot6 revisited Tveskov has a nice, and funny rendition of events at Reboot 6. Including some hilarious drawings. If you were there. Check it out. If you weren't there, but you've been at previous Reboots. Check it out. If you have no idea what Reboot is,
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Get picked up when you’re drunk.
ScooterMan How's this for value-added service? Drive your car to the pub, get drunk, call scooterman. Someone will show up on a foldable scooter, and (fully insured) drive you and your car back home. Now I don't drive, and folding up a scooter and putting it
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Open GSM Networks in London?
ROAM - Home Page The British Radio Telecommunications Agency is reviewing options on what to do with 2 narrow slivers of GSM spectrum in the 1800MHz band. And one of the options is to open it up for u8nlicensed, regulated use. My good friend Julian is trying to gather some
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Lunch with Cory- Pictures from Copenhagen
Julian and I had lunch with Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing and EFF and author the SciFi novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. He's a nice guy and very knowledgable, especially on issues of intellectual property right, DRM and copyright law. We had a great chat over