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A Free Business Idea: Conference Wifi

This is something I talked about in Paris as well. Seems like there is a real market for this as Michael Arrington is also worrying about the perfection of their wifi in next year’s TC50. My point was that since there is always talk on the internet after a conference (pick a place and theme [...]

A disruptive thought

Remember when you had to walk around with your mobile phone to find coverage to make a call?
Risto Koski, a colleague from Nokia, and I were having a deep discussion when he naturally suggested that why bother making phones with both WiFi and cellular connectivity (now being called dual-mode).
Y’see, you could just have a WiFi [...]

Wi-Fi business shake up

I’ve been ranting about WiFi lots of times and now BBC writes about it, seems like I’m not the only one thinking like this. Too bad Helsinki hasn’t taken a proactive attitude towards it.
What all these start-ups assume is that users are never offline.
This is where wi-fi comes in. It is only when wireless net [...]

Week round-up

Man, this week has flown past me. I’ve had so much stuff to do it’s hard to imagine. I just got back from work and it’s 7pm. I’ve got some good news that have made me work a bit harder than normal. Our paper that we did for Journal of Interactive Advertising was conditionally accepted [...]

Connecting the two networks

Janne writes how you too can become a public Wifi provider by using PublicIP. This is pretty fabolous news for small cafes and such. All they need is a computer, an ADSL modem and a WiFi transmitter. Setting up your own hotspot couldn’t be much easier!
There’s also this other website I found through Antoin’s website; [...]