Invisible Yet Necessary

Lately, there has been a lot of discussion on Wi-Fi access sharing. This is not a new topic but it has probably found a new life with FON building a business model around people sharing their Wi-Fi access and FON getting major funding from both Skype and Google. I probably have to thank Martin Varsavsky […]

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As part of the research project for my master, I am conducting an online survey on how people understand and use Wi-Fi technologies.
The goal of the survey is to help improve the design of Wi-Fi by collecting various user experiences.
Whether you have used it only once or use it everyday, every experience you had with […]

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OSU to host a GIS day today; activities will be held across campus to highlight unique academic program spanning six departments

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Today is World Usability Day. So we should think harder today (and every other day too) on how we can make things, systems, services … more useful and enjoyable to use.
For my part, I am:

researching on how to make wireless networking more easy and natural to use
searching and accessing information more efficient (especially multimedia)

What […]

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(Update)
Fon, wireless community service
As I was looking at how network providers regulate the sharing of the Internet access they provide to their subscribers, I came across the initiative from Fon.
Fon is planning on being first a Spanish Internet Service Provider (ISP) that will make it possible for subscribers to share ADSL service through wireless connection […]

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