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Perhaps the true promise (or hazard) of wi-fi for business, says Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering, is its use as a "day extender"--as yet another way to bring work home. Fiering estimates that wi-fi raises the per-employee cost of a laptop by as much as 4% a year, about $325, depending largely on wi-fi access charges while traveling...
...hours. Mallick, for instance, says that since he got wi-fi installed at home he works about 10 hours more every week--and that's down from 15 when wi-fi first arrived. "I don't find it that inconvenient to sit on my couch and pull out my laptop," he says. That's good for work, but how good is it for his home life? "It mostly comes down to willpower," Mallick says. "There are times when I say, 'Ugh, why am I doing this?'" While iAnywhere hasn't clipped its wires entirely, that may be an option...
...Figuring I would do my share to ease the morning routine, I took our son, 3, for a spin online. He's a train fanatic, so we headed to www.thomas thetankengine.com to play games, solve puzzles and--whoops!--spill apple juice all over my wife's pristine white laptop. Springing into action, I sopped up the mess before she saw it. Disaster averted...
...sandwich turned out to be your basic French toast with some turkey, ham and cheese. It would have been no trouble at all if it hadn't been for the splatter from the frying egg--drenched toast that laid a coating of grease on my wife's clean white laptop. This time she was on the scene and watched it happen. I'm Jewish, and the disapproving-mother bit hits hard. Good thing she hadn't been there for the apple juice...
Neither the book nor the in-flight movies are holding your attention. You're sick of playing solitaire on your laptop. Now's the perfect time, then, to try meditating. You don't need to adopt the lotus position-just put on the eye mask, pull up the blanket and empty your mind. Whether you manage five minutes or 50, a session of contemplation will help reduce stress and get you to your destination in a better mood. Everyone else will think you're snoozing but you're actually meditating on these selected insights from Eastern spiritual sources, past...