This LAN is your LAN
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
Posted in wireless on
Have you ever wondered what socialist songwriter Woodie Guthrie would have thought of wireless technology? No? Me neither.
Huh. Well, thankfully, in this modern era, we have bloggers willing to think these things through for us. A taste:
“This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
From the mobile IP, to the wireless tri-band
From the manual keying, to the content filtering,
This LAN was made for you and me.”
For the rest, go here. It’s rather catchy, I’ve got to say…
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Time(zone) Travel
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
Posted in mobile on
When I’m travelling for IT PRO — and lately that’s happened a lot — I just assume my mobile phone will know where it is and what time it is… but it doesn’t.
I went to Malta a few weeks back, for a NetEvents event. As our plane taxied up to Malta International (with me peering out the window, giddy about palm trees), I turned my mobile phone back on.
Chiming its happy little “whee-I’m-on” tone, my phone found a signal and connected me to some Maltese network, which sent me a welcoming text message (alerting me to call rates), and somewhere along the way, my clock was reset to local time.
Pretty cool.
Last week, I flew to Vegas (more palm trees!) for the Teradata Partners Conference. Walking into McCarran International Airport, I dug my phone out of my backpack, turned it on (“whee,” it said) and was automatically connected to a local network, texted details on the local rates, and had my clock reset. All good.
Flying back into London, however, I was reconnected to my network, but it didn’t reset my clock. I know this is a tiny, petty issue, but if networks based out of Vegas and Malta can figure out how to reset my clock to the right time, then surely local T-Mobile can too?
Because when I’m that jetlagged, I certainly can’t.
What happens when you travel: does your phone do anything special to help keep you intouch when you arrive abroad or return home? Next time you travel, report back and let us know by leaving a comment here on the site…
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