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The Tethering / Hotspot Debate: No, You're Not a Thief. But Somebody Else is a Highway Robber.

The Tethering / Hotspot Debate: No, You’re Not a Thief. But Somebody Else is a Highway Robber.

By Zoli Erdos on April 4, 2011

Interesting debate at ZDNet over wireless data plans:  James Kendrick claims that unpaid tethering makes you a thief.   Thankfully his fellow ZDNet-er Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has the common sense to dispute  this tethering thief nonsense. Yes, technically if your wireless contract includes an anti-hotspot clause and you turn this feature on, you are in violation. Of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged anachronism, android, ATT, data plans, data service, hotspot, ipad, iphone, mobility, situational device, Tether, wireless, ZDNet

Your Own (Almost) Ad-Hoc HotSpot

Your Own (Almost) Ad-Hoc HotSpot

By Zoli Erdos on June 23, 2010

If you’re a frequent traveler, you’re likely better off buying a MiFi or using your late-model cell-phone’s HotSpot capability than paying those outrageous hotel surcharges.  If you’re a frequent conference-goer, you’ve already learned they all fail to provide reliable connection(Web 2.0, LeWeb, Gnomedex, Microsoft PDC, Google I/O, just to name a few recent examples), so […]

Posted in Mobile, Product reviews | Tagged byow, cellular, conferences, hotspot, mifi, mobility, travel, wi-fi, wireless

The Chaos of BYOW (Bring Your Own Wi-Fi)

The Chaos of BYOW (Bring Your Own Wi-Fi)

By Zoli Erdos on June 15, 2010

It all started as an innocent joke: Robert Scoble was sitting in the front row @ Apple’s WWDC conference while I was following the tweetstream from home.  Little did we know out joke would soon turn serious, as Steve Job’s keynote demo crashed when his shiny new iPhone 4 could not get a network connection.  […]

Posted in Mobile | Tagged byow, chaos, conferences, defragcon, evo, google i/o, hotspot, HTC, iphone, mobility, wi-fi, wifi, wireless, wwdc

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