Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
Our Mobile Workforce Survey is in full swing, but we want to hear from you!
By filling out the survey (which is shorter!), you will be entered for a chance to win a new iPad. Here’s what we see so far:
$20/€15/£13 is the most that you’ve spent for Wi-Fi access; usually at a hotel.
Other places that you might use Wi-Fi for business (that we did not have as a selection):
- Customer site
- Hospital (other medical services)
- Library
- …what else?
Almost 50% of you work away from the office 1-2 days per week.
And, at this point, you are more productive working from home, than working from the office (which is still pretty high).
Take a moment and fill out our survey to tell us about how you are using Wi-Fi to get your job done more productively. Thanks!
Go to the Mobile Workforce Survey >>
Mobile Workforce Survey – open for your response >>
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
M1 Limited in Singapore will offer its subscribers a global Wi-Fi data roaming service using iPass Open Mobile Exchange services.
M1 was the first to commercially launch nationwide 4G mobile service and mobile broadband service in South East Asia, and will soon offer a global Wi-Fi roaming service that provides access to more than one million hotspots globally to their postpaid mobile customers across multiple devices, such as the iPhone, iPad and Android-based smartphone and tablets.
Read the press release >>
M1 Limited to offer Global Wi-Fi Roaming >>
Monday, April 8th, 2013
Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
Let’s say you are at a meeting at a hotel and you are given a preferred set of Wi-Fi credentials to use. However, if the hotel is also an iPass hotspot, you may have had a problem with iPass Open Mobile wanting to log you into the iPass hotspot.
The manual login addresses a scenario where an end user has an alternate set of credentials that they would like to use on an SSID which is also a part of the iPass network. Another example is that frequent flyers might have a set of credentials with their frequent flyer program that allows them to access the airport lounge free of charge. In this case, they would not want iPass to handle the login for the airport lounge SSID.
This release allows a manual login process when the user has valid iPass credentials but wants to use alternate credentials to access a particular Wi-Fi hotspot. The user would enter the SSID in the client’s manual login list so that our client would skip trying to log in even if the SSID was in our directory. The end user can then use the normal captive portal web page to type in their other credentials for access.
Remember: if you want to use the iPass network instead, you will need to go into the Manual Login Settings and remove that network entry.
Manual login override for Wi-Fi network with iOS >>
Friday, March 29th, 2013
Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
In case you are working in São Paulo, iPass can be used at 15 new business hotels and one of the largest exhibition centres in South America.
iPass users can easily connect while at the Transamerica Expo Centre in São Paulo and the neighboring hotel, Hotel Transamérica São Paulo with 396 rooms. This hotel is strategically located to all the main major multinational companies in Brazil. In addition, we’ve listed some of the MANY iPass-enabled hotels in Sao Paulo. If you are there, send us a picture on Facebook!
Don’t forget to use the iPass Hotspot Finder for Sao Paolo to find your nearest Wi-Fi hotspot!
Be sure to download the iPass Open Mobile app to your smartphone and tablet and activate it before travel to save yourself roaming fees.
More hotspots in São Paulo >>
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
Our new Mobile Workforce Report is out. BYOD is gaining speed, and so is the Galaxy Tab and Microsoft tablet!
Get the Mobile Workforce Report! >>
View more of our Infographics >>
The Inside Story – BYOD in Infographic >>
