If you read my first entry on mobile phone basics you may remember we left with tips on purchasing a mobile phone for international travel. They were as follows: – ask for a GSM phone – ask if the phone is locked. If so, how can it be unlocked? – ask what frequency the phone [...]
When you’re planning to work and travel internationally a telephone will probably be one of your essential pieces of equipment. Experienced nomads not only use their mobile phones for voice communication but often as the interface between their laptop and that country’s dial up internet service (if supported by Bluetooth). Most of us are used [...]
So – you’re in Timbuktu, busily working on your latest project with your laptop when trouble hits. Your laptop is behaving like it’s about to go up in smoke at any minute. What do you do? You’re thousands of miles away from the nearest Geek Squad and you don’t know how to express what’s happening [...]
Our latest review of laptops reveals that manufacturers are more than a little schizophrenic—but in a good way. They now offer lighter machines that offer either a larger screen size (up to 19”!) or, 9” screens. Both trends will appeal to (if not actually benefit) the nomadic worker. Interestingly, our recent Laptop Review (comprised of [...]
Finding India too chaotic or Nepal a bit rural as a working-traveler destination? Perhaps you’ll appreciate the middle-ground of Sri Lanka. The Internet is no longer an esoteric technology on this island nation of nearly twenty million (though broadband is still limited to only the largest of cities such as Kandy, Negombo and in and [...]
I just read on Business Week Online that Continental Airlines has won a dispute with Boston Logan Airport to offer free WiFi to their President’s Club Members. Boston Logan argued it was a hazard (although they offer WiFi themselves at $7.95 per day – sound more like a hazard to their pocketbooks). This is a [...]
So – we’re back in the states for the last stage of this journey. Hooray – I can go back to using my cell phone for client calls! Right! I specifically picked my cell phone provider by going into the strip mall cell phone shop and saying, "My family travels each summer to the Connecticut [...]
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