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Saturday, April 17, 2004
WiFi HotSpot VPN
HotSpotVPN is a subscription-based VPN (virtual private network) server that let's you make a secure PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) connection from anywhere. This kind of service offering is great for travelers, road warriors, and people who like to hang out at coffee houses and local watering holes to surf or just get a break from the office. [More...]
Terry Frazier at 2:29 PM
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Friday, April 16, 2004
Bypassing the Toll Booth
I'm sitting in a Starbucks in Decatur, GA. bypassing the overpriced T-Mobile hotspot in favor of a somewhat weaker, but free, access point named "linksys". Gotta love the neighbors around here.I'm here with my friend Bryant Hodgson. Bryant has his old Win98 laptop and a T-Mobile daypass and I'm helping him with his first mobile WiFi experience. But I got to the Starbucks a little before Bryant and sat down next to the only electrical outlet in the building, booted up my laptop and surveyed the available access points. Lucky for me some kindhearted neighbor of the Starbucks is running a LinkSys router in default mode, offering a friendly bypass to the T-Mobile toll bridge.
Friday, May 2, 2003
Cell Phone Life Gets Interesting
Cell life is about to get interesting. If Mobile Number Portability (MNP) goes into effect in November you can expect chaos while everyone scrambles for a better deal. This Wired article suggest much of the negotiating can start already. Now where'd I put that Sprint customer discipline number...
Let's Make a Cell-Phone Deal. Facing an increasingly competitive market and legislation that will let customers keep their phone numbers even when they switch carriers, cell-phone companies are upping the ante in their bid to attract and retain customers. By Elisa Batista.[...] "After some mild haggling with a low-level rep who wasn't going to budge -- he insisted that he couldn't give me a plan other than those offered to new subscribers -- I asked to speak to a supervisor, who immediately offered me 500 anytime minutes, unlimited night and weekend calling, free long distance and $100 toward a new phone, all for $35 a month. [...] [Wired News]
Terry Frazier at 9:40 AM
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