While SMS has been slow to take off in the US, it has been growing at incredible rates across the globe for many years now. According to some sources, it is estimated that over two trillion messages will be sent worldwide this year.
Aside from drawing attention to this awesome statistic, the overview of the 2008 [...]

Wouldn’t it be great to see an announcement like this headline that applied to NYC, LA, Chicago or Washington, DC?  Hong Kong’s government shows remarkable foresight by investing in free wi-fi in all of its 30 government buildings and expanding it to over 2,000 hotspots by 2009.  This is exactly the kind of action that [...]

NetworkWorld.com reports that Intel researchers modified existing 802.11 equipment with a data rate of about 6 Mbps to connect as far as 60 miles away.  Intel has a project they call the rural connectivity platform (RCP) which aims to get internet services in remote areas.  One unit they tested was even powered by a solar panel [...]

I think we’d all love to be able to take our laptops and portable internet devices such as our iPhone anywhere and know that we’d have instant wireless internet access.  There are many Asian and European cities such as Hong Kong, Athens and Vienna that have taken the initiative to make that a reality.  There [...]