All posts tagged mobility

Airline Wi-Fi: All U.S. services compared by Dvice.com

onboard wifi? you're not aloneWant 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 →

Achieving full mobility with Google voice: reach me wherever I am!

googlevoice-logoEverytime I am traveling abroad, I have to let my family and friends know that they shall not call me on my cellphone until I am back at a specific date. And since I’m travelling more than often, I got tired of changing my voice mail every week.

And if until today I wouldn’t have had my SkypeIn number, my life would have litteraly been a nightmare. An online number (SkypeIn) is perfect if you have friends, family or business colleagues who don’t use Skype. Anyone can dial your online number (for instance +33 970 44 00 00) from any phone or mobile and your Skype rings and you pick up the call, wherever you are in the world! Continue Reading →

Picture of the week: Mobile Evolution Matryoshka

Nokia Easy Meet: give your mobile phone real-time content sharing

broken-bbAt the very end of the 90′s you still had the excuse to remain unreachable for hours as mobile phones were THE hype device of early adopters or wealthy individuals. This was a blessed time.

Try and do the same today and you may lose your job or turn single… Continue Reading →

Mobilis in mobili* (my home in a container)

mobilis-in-mobileTired of your neighbors? Feel like reniewing the visual perspective on the buildings accross the street you’ve been sharing for the past years? Want to have your new home built in three days (without the help of the noisy team of Extreme Makeover Home Edition)? Or are you too original to stand leaving in a place which looks like any other?

If you’re either an industrial design concept lover, early adopter or “stay mobile” fan (but too posh to accept living in a mobile-home) you’ll probably love the idea developped by Adam Kalkin, an “artist, architect and many other things” as he likes to describe himself…

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Microsoft’s vision of the future: a highly collaborative, interactive and mobile world

students2Two schoolgirls from distant countries communicate using a clear white board that can do on-the-fly translation. A business man finds his way out of the airport to meet with his client, by following the big arrow displayed on the ground by his mobile built-in GPS. Working partners meet in a café and resume the project they’re working on, from the very surface of the table. Sounds familiar to you? Continue Reading →

Cool computer cases (because your laptop is worth it)

mynerdThis is my laptop. There are many like it but this one is mine. My laptop is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my laptop is useless. Without my laptop I am useless. Let’s go to Moscow. Find the backdoor to the Kremlin and come on in, singing ‘Howdy Owdy Doody How Doody Aye Ey”

extract from the unpublished Secret Oath of the Digital Native

One of the major concerns of the telecommuter or urban nomad, is to keep the electronic devices he or she uses in his/her day-to-day life, safe.

I’m not talking here about how to prevent those devices from being hacked or stolen, but how to make sure that they survive their 24/7 journey between places such as airports, offices, transportations, or cafés. Continue Reading →

Your laptop on a USB key!

usbusHaven’t you once in your live felt desperate while visiting relatives or friends or just when using any public computer while on the go, because you had to use the very same build-in software which were sold together with the work station?

Haven’t you ever frantically looked for this familiar Firefox icon, prayed to be able to quickly rework some pics using GIMP, or outrageously cried when you realized that for the next 5 hours of your train trip you won’t be able to watch your favorite series on your brother’s laptop because he has no idea what VLC media player is?

But this dark era might soon be over… Continue Reading →

2017: take your office cubicle at home

This month, Wired has pictured what could look like our – take away? – office cubicle in the future

wired-artifact-from-the-future-take-your-cubicle-at-home

Is it so hard to imagine that this tiny pebble-like device may be our tomorrow’s workstation ? We’ll probably have the technology by 2017 to develop this kind of gizmo, but to have it enforced – socially speaking – in every offices is another story…

 

For the past six years, Wired magazine’s Found page has presented some of the best guess at what our world will look like in 10, 20 or 100 years. This captivating monthly exercise in futurism organized by the editorial team and Wired’s readers has regularly brought outstanding results as Found has turned into one of the most plebiscited pages of the magazine. Check here for more!

Nimbuzz : the killer VoIP app for mobile phones

If you’re like me and split most of your “online time” between your smartphone, your computer’s chat client and your Facebook/LinkedIn page, Nimbuzz may be for you. It’ll make all those communications smoother.

My Facebook friends sometimes leave me wall messages that I take forever to respond to when I’m running between Paris and Vienna. Now they can call me or chat with me directly via a widget embedded on my Facebook profile page. The Nimbuzz widget detects presence and shows if I’m online. If I’m offline, Nimbuzz also includes a “Buzz” feature to alert me that people are trying to reach me. Continue Reading →