Archive for the ‘Wireless’ Category

Co-Working

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Andy recently posted that his efforts to build Co-Working Belfast have been bearing fruit as he gets QUB and Belfast City Council on board. For my part, I've pledged that Mac-Sys will buy a desk every month and put some loaner kit down there as well to foster mobile ...

Municipal WiFi failing again. Try FON.

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

I got this Businessweek link from DaringFireball this morning. "A few weeks after announcing it will shut down its municipal wireless network in New Orleans, EarthLink Inc. said Tuesday that it has notified its Wi-Fi customers in Philadelphia that it is terminating that network, too." This is what happens when ideas are ...

Wireless on the Choo-choo?

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Eirepreneur writes With no plans for wireless internet service is Irish Rail really "getting there"? ...getting back to the issue of onboard broadband Will Knott believes Irish Rail are missing the opportunity to make a lot of money, "and the mobile carriers are missing out by leaving 'coverage holes' on the ...

SkyHook: WiFi geo-location

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I got this link initially from MacRumors A new knowledgebase page from Apple: If you are using Wi-Fi on iPhone or iPod touch and you experience unexpected results when tapping the Location button in Maps, you can refer the respective wireless router administrator to the following URL to update information that Skyhook ...

Steal WiFi: 5 years in prison.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Darryl Collins, local poster-boy for entrepreneurship, writes about how nicking Wifi is bad. I caught this piece on Radio 4’s “You and Yours” last Thursday. I was so incensed by the lack of balance they were giving the issue of people accessing open wifi networks that I went back and listened ...

NiMUG meeting Monday 24th March

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Yes, it's Easter Monday but don't let that stop you. Here's the details.

iPlayer on my iPhone

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

From TUAW: Hot on the heels of Auntie releasing a selection of videos for sale via the iTunes Store, we somehow missed yesterday's sneaky revelation that the BBC is intending to release some form of the BBC iPlayer for iPod touch and iPhone 'in the coming weeks.' iPlayer is a mixed bag. ...

Pushing for a Tech-Hub in Belfast

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

DavidJRice expresses some polite frustration at the number of potentially misguided approaches to government (central and local) funding of creative and technology industries. He's right, of course. There is a disconnect between what is happening and what the "gubmint" thinks is happening. When you see people organising themselves for events because ...

NiMUG Meeting: Monday 18th Feb, 7 pm

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

NiMUG are having another meeting!. They're also looking for some Professional Mac users who might want to show off a demo of what they do with their Macs. Or why they use the tools they do. Anyone fancy a few minutes of free advertising?

BT - an exercise in excellence

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Not content to let Orange and O2 be the only idiots in town, BT have stepped in. First they LIED about the activation date for the line itself and now they can't give us any forecast of when the line will be made available to broadband. They claim to have ...