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- Amtrak and T-Mobile offer WiFi at select stations, Sounder trains have free WiFi
- Amtrak and T-Mobile offer WiFi at select stations, Sounder trains have free WiFiHey --Kinda funny that all these iphone users are craving 3G! I took the train from Bellingham WA to Portland OR and rcvd 3G speeds the entire trip using my Treo 700wx. NO wifi or hotspot needed.
- Tags: Wireless LANs, 3G, WIRELESS, Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, train, Amtrak, T-Mobile
- Discussion threads 2007-10-16
- Amtrak and T-Mobile offer WiFi at select stations, Sounder trains have free WiFi
- Amanda sent me a press release from T-Mobile today announcing that T-Mobile HotSpot service is available in five major Amtrak stations on the East Coast. Passengers who are waiting for their train can now surf via the T-Mobile WiFi network at the Washington D,C, Union Station, Baltimore Penn Station, Wilmington...
- Tags: Train, T-Mobile, Amtrak, Sound Transit, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- A new charge on your phone bill
- A new charge on your phone billWho wants to bet it'll flop...Either A) people won't buy the phones or B) turn it off when they get in their cars.Butt ...What if you are a passenger in a speeding taxi or train? Amtrak gets the ticket? Or...?That wouldn't work for catching...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Amtrak, government, phone, camera
- Discussion threads 2006-12-20
- Wi-Fi rides into Amtrak rail stations
- Wi-Fi rides into Amtrak rail stationssmoking and Wi-Fiand you can take the fingernail clippers without fear of a strip search - what more could you ask for
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Amtrak
- Discussion threads 2004-01-27
- Amtrak launches onboard Wi-Fi service
- Amtrak launches onboard Wi-Fi serviceZDNet's Patrick Houston tests a new Wi-Fi service on Amtrak's Capitol Corridor rail line.
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Amtrak, Wi-Fi Service, Wi-Fi
- Videos 2003-09-30
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- Technology could have averted fatal LA train crash
- Positive train control" technology - already in use in some parts of the country -- could have avoided last week's fatal train crash in southern California, the Federal Railroad Administration pronounced yesterday. PTC includes GPS and digital communications to enforce speeds and monitor movements. Twenty-five people were...
- Tags: California Public Utilities Commission, PTC, LA Times, Monitors & Displays, Government, GPS, Federal Government, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Loopt: iPhone app keeps track of friends
- I've been playing with a free iPhone application called Loopt (Web site, App Store). It allows you to stay connected to your friends, colleagues and relatives who are also members of the service. Loopt uses the GPS chip in the iPhone 3G and Wi-Fi triangulation in the iPhone 2G to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Friend, Loopt, 3G, GPS, Wireless LANs, Cellular Phones, Web Site Development, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!
- Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!Airport SecurityI'm fairly sure if anyone was to see me naked... their eyeballs would no longer function anyway. I say go ahead, it's more a punishment for them than me. But I can certainly understand why many people would find...
- Tags: airport security, body scanners!, scannerS!, Nate
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!
- If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security. Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International Airport will become the next airport to implement full-body scanners (thanks for the link from the LiquidMatrix guys!) that can see...
- Tags: Imaging, Airport Security, Privacy, Transportation Security Administration, Image, Attack, Madness, Scanners, Document Management, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Airport security part 3: Planes, trains, and automobiles
- I took a trip home to Michigan this week via Amtrak, and I got to thinking about previous articles I've written about airline security and wondered why are the security concerns so much more lax for trains and cars than they are for planes? There's certainly some obvious...
- Tags: Bottle, Airport Security, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
- Mowser purchased by dotMobi; is there a need for a .mobi domain?
- Mowser purchased by dotMobi; is there a need for a .mobi domain?.mobi is UsefulI like developed .mobi sites, and have a blog and showcase of .mobi sites at http://mobienthusiast.mobi. It's true that there are many mobile optimized .com sites, but I like the simplicity of being able to type in...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, DotMobi, mobi site, mobi, mobile, mobi domain, dotMobi, Visit BofA.mobi, domain
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Mobile Web must die!
- Mobile Web must die!Think Nokia Mobile Web Server.[url=http://mybobilesite.net]Nokia Mobile Web Server for S60 devices runs on Apache![/url]Nokia: [url=http://www.nseries.com/open]Open to anything[/url]Think Nokia Mobile Web Server.[url=http://mymobilesite.net]Nokia Mobile Web Server for S60 devices runs on Apache![/url]Nokia: [url=http://www.nseries.com/open]Open to anything[/url]Haven't you heard about .mobi?Of course the "mobile" web is about "small". No amount...
- Tags: Web servers, mobi, Nokia Mobile Web Server, Nokia Corp., Nokia Mobile, small screen, Web server, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- YouTube view-Ron Paul voting result gap tells me some of his fans are people-phobic
- YouTube view-Ron Paul voting result gap tells me some of his fans are people-phobicComparison is offYT and the FL primary numbers are not comparable. You may well be right that many Paul supporters view YT more frequently. The wheels fall off your analysis when you pick up numbers...
- Tags: result gap, YouTube view-Ron Paul, Ron Paul, YouTube Inc., Paul
- Discussion threads 2008-01-30
- The Internet must not be proprietary
- The Internet must not be proprietaryMonopolies are bad.I agree. Unfortunately the trend in North America is that choices are decreasing. This need not be a bad thing as long as the 'remaining' market players do a good job. But history has shown that once competition decreases, quality of service goes...
- Tags: Government, Govt, Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-11-24
- News to know: Spam standards; Oracle Fusion re-org; YouTube filters
- Notable headlines: David Berlind: Does payback on email alone make Google Apps' $50/yr. worth it? (Docs, etc? That's icing). Note to all anti-spam vendors: Why your solutions stink and standards are needed instead. Dennis Howlett: Oracle re-org confirmed, Fusion leader ousted. ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., YouTube Inc., Airbus, Standards, AJAX, Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Wireless LANs, Corporate Communications, Java Development Tools, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Marketing, Development Tools, Software Development
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Can YouTube survive till next week?
- Can film survive the new generation? The Wall Street Journals Joe Morgenstern isnt sure. Hes worried about the future of movies. In "YouTube Youth", he suggests that kids of today are so bored by traditional narrative movies that Hollywood might go the way of Amtrak and the Dodo bird: ...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Coming up: Sprint EV-DO, THE major road test
- CES is done. AFT, and I dont mean the American Federation of Teachers. After significant miles underfoot, the clamor, the clang, the commotion of 140,000 Type A souls, the hours waiting for convention shuttle buses, taxis- the FRIGGIN RACKET- man am I ready for downtime.Over-stimmed. Decompression mandatory.Some would...
- Tags: General, Case Studies, SprintNextel, EVDO
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- The next generation of Web stacks: High productivity and a touch of controversy
- I'm on an Amtrak train as I write this heading to New York City where I'll get a chance to see Harvard's Andrew McAfee of Enterprise 2.0 fame speak at Interop, a chance I'll actually get twice in the next two days, so expect some coverage here shortly. ...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Ruby on Rails, Web, Web development
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- EV-DO vs. Wi-Fi: my real world test
- Yesterday I had several EV-DO vs. Wi-Fi moments. It is how those moments play out that will affect the near-term prospects of broadband wireless.Backgrounder: on Tuesday, I upgraded my hp notebook to SprintNextel's brand of EV-DO. Specs: 400-700 kbps. Coverage area: most larger and quite a few mid-size metro areas...
- Tags: EVDO
- Blog posts 2006-07-01
- Net Neutrality debate in the Big Apple
- The New York Software Industry Association NYSIA, the trade organization of the software industry in the New York City metropolitan area, hosted a debate on the hot button “net neutrality” issue at its monthly meeting in NYC last evening.Bruce Bernstein, NYSIA President, moderated the debate. Participants:James L. Gattuso, Senior Research...
- Tags: Internet, James Gattuso
- Blog posts 2006-06-26
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