Word: wi-fi
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...sleek and thoroughly modern Courtyard Marriot, I was being shown in to what looked like aunt Edna's room. A bed, a desk and armoire fit snugly into the space. I was happy I was only staying there for a few hours. "Probably not a lot of wi-fi here," I joked to myself looking at the wash-pail-sized tub (sans shower curtain...
...left before I was scheduled to join the official White House Pres corps again, I retired to type a few notes before settling into the gently listing bed. When my host heard that I was going to work he barked out in his broken English: "Oh, and we have wi-fi...
...borderless world, phone bills can seem irrational. If it costs nothing to e-mail colleagues overseas, why should talking to them be costly? Two very different new products offer potential remedies to international-calling issues. Vonage, the Internet phone service provider, is rolling its services into a little wi-fi handset. Designed by UTStarcom, it can hop onto any wi-fi network you have access to, including the networks for hire found at many airports and hotels...
...connected to the Internet, you get all the phone services you get at home, even if you're not there. Friends and co-workers still just dial your domestic phone number, and when you call them, it's local. The catch is that once you're away from wi-fi, you can't really use the phone. Vonage has plans to introduce a phone with inexpensive Internet calling at home, but full cellular service when needed...
...products over speedier chips in his speeches for the past four years (he calls the strategy by the awkward name "platformization"). He put the plan to work in 2003 with another of his pet projects--the Centrino--a set of chips specifically designed for wi-fi-enabled laptops. For wi-fi capability, all you really need is the Pentium M, the chip at the heart of Centrino, but Otellini wanted to sell a bundle of chips along with it that would help maintain a laptop's battery life (not to mention Intel's bottom line). Against the wishes...