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Post’s from Andy and Ben’s “Broadband In My Car” got me thinking

“I wonder can I do this?”
It should be quite simple really, 1. A USB cigarette charger and a USB2 cable to charge the Novatel MiFi device. 2. A vodafone sim for MiFi for only $19.99 a month including 10GB.
3. Two pieces of blue tack [...]

The cool guys from NovaTel Wireless had promised me one of these for a few months for testing and after much nudging and prodding it arrived on Friday.
Andy has been writing about it for a few weeks now but I think its the first one on these shores.
So what is MiFi?
A mobile broadband dongle? yes
A [...]

Dan dropped me a line on this earlier.
“Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X provides screen sharing, WiFi access, chat features and Twitter-like mood messages”
My initial thought was “wow, incredible, at last two industry leaders Boingo and Skype get it together”
Then I happened to read through Dan’s post and came to
Probably the largest “new” feature [...]