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having provided broadband access to copenhagen hotel-guests for some years now, copenhagen company NetPoint is now moving into the WLAN hotspot business. Claiming more than 20 hotspots in and around various copenhagen hotels they have silently become the 'largest' commercial hotspot provider in the danish capital, competing with
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a fun (and useful) initiative from blackbeltjones.com whenever you find a useful access point somewhere mark the spot with chalk, so others that follow can benefit. Let's WARCHALK! via 802.11b Networking News
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Ghana's Digital Dilemma THe MIT Technology Review has this article on the Digitial Divide, and all the problems that come with it. It focuses on Ghana, a country that is close to my heart, and is fairly precise in its description of the issues. The only thing i
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Following last years announcement that CMG, TDC and Microsoft would deliver SMS-based access to Microsofts Hotmail service (via the MIGway SMS aggregator service), is an announcement that MSN Instant Messenger will be integrated with SMS services from 8 European operators. The service allows users to set up a mobile profile,
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Wow.... awesome wireframe animator
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A new Danish WLAN operator is setting up it's first hotspots in Copenhagen in these Days. metrostar.dk, will be offering free access on a trial basis until late this year.
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Telia's Homerun announced a roaming partnership with Italian (London-based) WLAN operator Megabeam. It seams to be the first international roaming agreement for WLAN, at least in Europe, and may show the way for the commercial operators (especially mobile operators experienced in the roaming area) to beat out growing
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Since I lead an Open Space session on IT and the developing world, at last weeks conference, I have met a few people with interesting thoughts on the matter of helping people less fortunate than one-self, on technology in the developing world, and generally on the difference between worth-while passtimes
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I basically started this new blog because a lot has been happening in my life, and my professional (and to a degree personal) focus has changed drastically from being mostly a technologist to thinking mostly about ways of bridging the digital divide. Many things, that I used to write about
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For those of you in Denmark, the Danish wireless group Open Ether, is having a inaugural meeting on tuesday the 18th june at 18:00. The meeting will be held somewhere in Copenhagen, more information on the Open Ether (Åben Æther) website soon....
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the Degree Confluence Project - have a look for yourself. THis ranks as one of the best, most interesting, and most intelligent projects i have seen in a very long time. makes me want to participate.... it may be useless but it's definitely magical...
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from boingboing there's thjis link: Palm Evolutionary Tree, a family tree of palm OS devices.... tech cool.-