CEOs Need To Walk In Customers’ Shoes
Stephanie Stahl wrote an Editor’s Note in Information Week (Aug. 26, 2002) called “CEOs Need To Walk In Customers’ Shoes”. She says, “Maybe it’s just one of the many trade-offs for living where you want to live, but I know so many people who still don’t have access to high-speed cable lines or DSL….” One […]
NewburyOpen.net Puts WiFi On The Road
The latest addition to NewburyOpen.net is that they have made a “mobile” version of their wireless node that sits on top of one of their cars. They plan to park it next to various places every Sunday and provide free wireless Internet service in new locations every week. For their first day out it happens […]
Newbury Surfing
The momentum is building to create community area networks everywhere! My first taste of this was during Subway Surfing and now it seems that each week I learn of something new. NewburyOpen.net — on Newbury Street in Boston — provides free high-speed WiFi Internet connections for Bostoners and travelers away from work or home — […]
A Statistical Approach To Spam
Thanks to David Singer, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Internet Technology at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California for telling me about a very interesting approach to reducing spam. It uses a statistical model and sounds like it could be quite effective. There is a spam conference in Cambridge, MA, in January 2003.
eSuds
Reuters reported that IBM is rolling out new technology that may be powerful enough to stop college students from bringing laundry home to mom and dad for the weekend. The system is called eSuds and it was developed by IBM and USA Technologies. Instead of the usual chasing all over to find quarters, this new […]