Wireless Bypass

The internet market is saturated with social networking sites and it takes something truly unique to stand out.  Foursquare is a relatively new site that brings a whole new aspect to keeping up with your friends.  Unlike many others of its kind, this social network doesn’t focus on what you are doing but where you are and where you’re going.  When you arrive at a building, whether it be a restaurant, movie theatre, or grocery store you check in using your mobile phone.  This site offers applications for many of the popular smartphones such as iPhone, Blackberry and Droid.  Foursquare users without smartphones can still participate through text messages.  (more…)

The universe of wireless internet technologies has really come an incredibly long way since the first cell phones were equipped with web navigation capabilities back in the early 1990s.  Since then, successive revolutions within this field of modern telecommunications technology have riveted the wireless internet-using population, opening up new possibilities that many of us wouldn’t have been expecting for another 10 or 20 years!  Among the most significant strides forward to be made in recent years have been the arrival of fourth generation mobile standards, the ability to use wireless signals from stationary locations and the increasingly reliable, non-patchy nature of wireless networks in the nation’s principal urban (and increasingly suburban) communities. (more…)

If you ask wireless internet users what they are looking for most, you’ll probably find one answer continuing to pop up: great service in all places from one provider.  It sounds simple, but it has been by no means easy to get such service from an internet provider.

What would it take for total wireless access to happen?  First of all, there would have to be the network which can get it all done, especially on the mobile front.  Wired networks obviously can’t, since there are going to be places which are almost out of bounds where people will need to use the internet on the road.  The latest wireless networks cannot cover entire states yet, but they can cover entire metropolitan areas with high speed internet. (more…)