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Introducing: Wi-Fi Hotspot Live! This Friday, SFO

Thursday, January 24th, 2013 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

Are you traveling through SFO tomorrow? Meet up with Chris!

Chris, iPass VP of Product Management & User Experience, will be at the Starbucks before security at Terminal 2 at the San Francisco Airport. Come by and ask any iPass questions, provide feedback, get started on downloading the iPass client for your mobile device and get a free 24-hour Wi-Fi pass. You can also ask her about her Wi-Fi diet and any tips for saving on 3G/4G costs.

iPass employees will soon visit some hotspots around the world, giving away passes and answering questions. We will be sure to let you know when the next one is.

And, here’s a little information about the newest SFO terminal, which reflects the region’s character:

Terminal 2: Foodie Culture Hits SFO Airport

A First Look at SFO’s New Terminal 2

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Wi-Fi access in Portugal for iPass users

Monday, January 7th, 2013 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

Traveling to Portugal this year? iPass users will be able to connect to additional Wi-Fi hotspots. I’ve listed a few here:

Lisbon:
Sheraton Lisboa Hotel & Spa
Modern and stylish, this hotel is in one of the premier business districts.

Cafeetaria Linha d’agua
The self-service snack bar, consisting mainly of outdoor seating, is situated in a grassy hollow in Jardim da Amália Rodrigues at the top off Parque Eduardo VII,

Holiday Inn Downtown Lisbon
Across the street from the Instituto Superior Técnico and near the Alameda Metro station and only 15 minutes to the airport.

Hotel Tivoli Lisboa
In the very centre of Lisbon, on the capital’s most famous Avenue, the Tivoli Lisboa is an elegant 5 star hotel and provides guests with a warm welcome and an exceptional level of service.

Irish Docas
An Irish pub on the Doca de Santo Amaro.

Porto:

Sheraton Porto Hotel & Spa
This Sheraton is a modern wonder of marble, wood, steel, and glass, situated in the business and cultural district of Porto.

Hotel Pestana Porto
Located in Praça da Ribeira in the heart of the historic core of Oporto, Hotel Pestana Porto stands on the city’s medieval walls, with a magnificent view of the river Douro.

Azores

Hotel Holiday Inn Azores

Sao Miguel Park Hotel
The Sao Miguel Park Hotel is located near Ponta Delgada´s Botanical Gardens and features ocean and city views of the island from the upper floors.

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Inflight Wi-Fi testing with sacks of potatoes

Thursday, December 20th, 2012 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

Complex equations, Metrology lab calibrations and…20,000 pounds of potatoes. All for testing inflight Wi-Fi.

Companies are going to great lengths to bring us a strong, steady inflight Wi-Fi experience. In PCMag.com, Boeing Tests In-Flight Wi-Fi … With Potatoes, Boeing shows its creativity in its effort to build in-flight Wi-Fi systems. Rather than asking real people to sit on test planes for hours, the company is replacing them with sacks of potatoes.

Pototoes mimic the interactions that a human body will have with the radio waves.
And, if you don’t believe it, you can watch the video:

This way, the mobile worker doesn’t need to worry whether they get a strong signal in any row and in any position at the seat.

Happy travels!

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Cyber Monday: Mobile shopping or shopping for mobile

Monday, November 26th, 2012 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

Cyber Monday is upon us. Not only are shoppers looking for mobile deals, but they are out in force shopping via mobile devices.

According to IBM’s Digital Analytics Benchmark in Cyber Monday Sales Are Already Up 24 Percent; iPhone Driving Most Traffic To Retail Sites, there is a 24.1 percent jump in online sales from for this same time period over Cyber Monday 2011. Also:

“Mobile shopping is also performing well with the current number of consumers using a mobile device to visit a retailer’s site at 22.4 percent. The number of consumers using their mobile device to make a purchase is at 12 percent.

By device, the iPhone is driving more retail shopping than any other device with traffic reaching 8.7 percent versus 7.2 percent and 6.3 percent for iPad and Android respectively. Shoppers referred from Social Networks have generated .2 percent of all online sales on Cyber Monday.”

Happy workaholics and roaming fees [infographic]

Thursday, August 23rd, 2012 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

Yesterday we announced our Mobile Workforce Report. We gathered some of the key data points and pulled them into this infographic:

To get the Mobile Workforce Report >>

More infographics >>

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