Word: wifi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...heard that the city of Cambridge is getting WiFi soon, so when Harvard’s network is having problems, hopefully we’ll be able to get on Cambridge’s,” he said...
Andrew Maltas, a Darwin’s manager, who used to work at the original Darwin’s on Mt. Auburn Street, says the WiFi was expected to be a draw...
...days running, I couldn't get my WiFi hookup. The French are hopeless with anything computer-related. Europe is soooo analog. When you think about it, all the top technological innovations have come from either America or Asia. I mean, the French haven't invented anything useful since the late 19th century: movies. Unless you count Robert Bresson's invention, 50 years later, of reeeeeally slooooow movies...
...games provided allow for "ad hoc" networking, meaning that other PSP users within WiFi range who also have the same game can play against each other. Future games may even allow players to network without everyone owning the software. Just as cool, some games allow you to connect through a wireless network and play other PSP users in other parts of the world. Connecting to my home network was pretty easy, and the PSP even supports WEP password protection. The only thing you can't do: play PSP games with someone...
...mass tourism--one of the least celebrated but most profound of all the ways in which the world has been shrunk in the past 20 years--made the disaster uniquely personal to those who live thousands of miles away from its mayhem, so did modern technology. From broadband and wifi-enabled hotels, guests could email messages, pictures and videos back home. Mobile phones allowed people to stay in touch with their loved ones. And by some miracle of technology for which many were grateful, even when mobile circuits were overloaded, text messages got through. Sam Nicols, an engineer who researches...