Word: wireless
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...movies and play with your computer?" asks Joe Schwieterman, a DePaul University professor who specializes in urban planning and transportation. He recently published a study on intercity U.S. bus travel that showed a nearly 10% jump from 2007 to '08. "As Amtrak and the airlines have struggled with incorporating wireless, we think that's a big part of why it's suddenly cool to jump on the bus," he says...
Though Vivek R. Sant ’10 is appreciative of free wireless at airports, he said he is slightly suspicious of Google’s motives. “It is hard to believe that they are doing this just because they have these high principles of giving free WiFi to everyone,” said Sant, the business manager of the Harvard Computer Society...
...sign-in, users of the free wireless are invited to download various Google products such as Google Chrome or Google Toolbar. Furthermore, users are encouraged to give to Google-supported charities including Engineers Without Borders and Climate Savers Computing Initiative...
...excited,” Fliss says as she describes Lamont’s new collaborative learning space. The room includes two built-in projectors and screens, ten laptops, a DVD player, a VCR, document camera and wireless control system. Here, librarians can teach students about using resources. It is a different world from Horrocks’ office, full of Lincoln memorabilia...
...rapidly growing demographic of constantly connected individuals with scant patience for traditional media is emerging in society. According to the Radicanti Group, a Palo Alto-based market research firm, there will be roughly 139 million wireless e-mail users by the end of 2009, a figure that will rise by an average annual rate of 68 percent until there are one billion users by 2013. True, these data have nothing to say about the number of books these users read in a year or about the way in which they read. Yet they nevertheless sketch an outline of a burgeoning...