The Internet is, as you know, quite vast. But how “vast”? Well, I had trouble visualizing how huge it was, but now thanks to this infographic by Online Education, I have a better idea of how it looks like…
So if you ever dreamed to see what 210 billion emails, 3 million Flickr images, 43 million gigabytes (on phones) sent on an average day really means, have a look at the image below.
Literally mindblowing…
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Hello all,
Nicolas was kind enough to invite me to share my experiences with mobile VoIP, specifically with Sipdroid on the Android platform. I’ll start by providing a quick summary of the technology, and how applications are now utilizing it.
Simply speaking, VoIP – short for Voice-over-IP – is a general term for technologies which route phone calls over the internet, rather than regular telephony networks. The result is very cheap telephony, or in the case of pure internet-to-internet communications, free telephony. Continue Reading →
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Want to surf the Internet while you’re on a plane? You’re not alone — there’s a growing demand for in-flight Wi-Fi, and the airlines are stepping up to meet it. Currently there are three separate services — Gogo, Row 44 and LiveTV — that provide Wi-Fi on planes in U.S. airspace, and which ones that are available to you depends on your airline.
What are the differences between them? How much do they cost? And what can you do with that connection? Kevin Hall at Device.com talked to reps from all three services, putting together all the information in a handy table. Continue Reading →
Here we are again: the beginning of a new month with its procession of bills of all kinds, falling around just like the dead leafs of some trees. Mmmm, a little foretaste of Falls @ the beginning of August…
I though just realized today, while checking my online mobile phone bills of the last three month, that I actually managed not to overrun my monthly fee! And that’s the first time since 2006!
So where’s the trick? Continue Reading →
One of the main reasons why people should work from home, is because it is environment friendly. Everyday, hundred of millions of commuters wordlwide take their car to drive to their office instead of using public transportation or work from home, and participate to spreading in the air millions of tons of CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases strongly related to global warming.
Today, more and more “socially responsible” companies are launching new environmental programs – not all of them are only meant to act as some nice PR or advertising for those companies - to try to make things change. They aren’t revolutionnary, as every one of them is more like a stone which helps build the big wall which at the end will give the big picture. But at least, they help.
Nokia has launched beginning of December, a great green travel resource that is up in beta mode called Green Explorer. It features travel news, eco-centered information about destinations, tips from fellow green travelers, easy carbon offsets, mobile device access, and loads more.
According to Jaymi Heimbuch on treehugger, this resource “is geared specifically for people who want to travel in an eco-friendly fashion and provide their own travel tips, and the site has quite a few features that can make it a top resource when it comes out of beta”
And for those of us who are dyed in the wool environment lovers who can’t stand the idea of leaving a Big-Foot environmental print every time they fly, Nokia has developped the world’s first CO2 emission offsetting tool to your mobile: we:offset. It’s already available in 46 languages.
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“Fahrenheit”.
I think this is how in-flight ISPs Aircell, Row 44 or OnAir should have called their piece of hardware they supplied airlines with. But I doubt that their engineers were whistling Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” while working on their solution… or is it because it’s still light-years away from being something decently called “broadband Internet”? who knows… Continue Reading →
Who has never looked with envy at those people surfing the web on their laptop, from the gate of an airport or while travelling on board of a train?
Who has never been discouraged to purchase a 30mns Internet credit for €15 from the only local provider available at an airport lounge or at a hotel?
As for my part, I’ve experienced both situations during one of the 140 Paris-Vienna flights I took for the past two years (17,5 tonnes of CO2 … I know… I’m so ashamed). But I’ve never been so desperate to subscribe to an additional mobile contract for 12 or 24 month and get one of those “cool” broadband Internet access USB dongles you connect to your PC or Mac and which puts the world at your finger tips while on the move… Continue Reading →
